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Re:Fusion Foolery by dahfizz on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:32AM (#37162247)
> Where?

Almost the entire world? The sun is up for less than 9.5 hours in winter unless you are very close to the equator.[1][2][3][4]

And that's assuming 0% cloud coverage. In reality, places like Germany only get an hour or two of real sunshine a day in the winter[5].

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york

[2] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco

[3] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/spain/madrid

[4] https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/china/beijing

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/982758/average-sunshine-...

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Re:Fusion Foolery by jmopp on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:53AM (#37163614)
The middle of winter in Europe, North America, and Asia is the middle of summer in South America, Southern Africa and Australia. Yes, global transmission of electricity is a problem. But the problem is not a global lack of sunshine.
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Re:Fusion Foolery by SamPatt on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:18PM (#37164032)
Land - and thus population - is not evenly distributed across the globe, there is far more of both in the northern hemisphere.

Global transmission of electricity isn't a "problem," it's non-existant.

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