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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ElectricalUnion on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:27PM (#32870884)
Unless some very serious technical breakthroughs happens in more efficient manufacture, energy capture efficiency and energy storage, by the point that around 1% of Earth is covered in solar panels, Earth probably ran out of "useless" land space and materials to make solar panels and the associated infrastructure to actually use said energy to something useful.
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by gnaritas99 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:57PM (#32915398)
That's rather the point; tech breakthroughs happen when there is a drive to achieve something, increased demand for solar causes that pressure to strive and thus increases the likelihood of innovation. The more panels that are built, the better we get at building them, innovate, repeat.
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by ElectricalUnion on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:14PM (#32918520)
Except this is not a demand for solar, just for cheap energy - it just happens to be that solar is cheap sometimes.

If solar happens to not be cheap, very sustained, increased demand for non-solar sources increases the likelihood of non-solar success.

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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by joshspankit on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:43PM (#32919669)
Solar is already the cheapest source of energy ($0.03 to $0.06 per kilowatt-hour), and it's getting cheaper by the day.
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