Re:Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage
by Schroedingersat on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:49AM
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Local effects vs. global effects.
You might make your desert nice, but you're still doing a climate change if you try to install more than a few hundred TW of solar panels.
Ideally you make the desert nice and then take a chill pill before covering all of the deserts and settle for somewhere in the range of 2-100kW per human as a steady state economy powered by a mix of wind, solar, geothermal, and maybe some nuclear.
You might make your desert nice, but you're still doing a climate change if you try to install more than a few hundred TW of solar panels.
Ideally you make the desert nice and then take a chill pill before covering all of the deserts and settle for somewhere in the range of 2-100kW per human as a steady state economy powered by a mix of wind, solar, geothermal, and maybe some nuclear.