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Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by falcolas on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:34AM (#37452936)
> The 5 largest subtropical deserts in the world have enough room to hold 30 HEUs worth of solar farms. If we built all those and turned them all on at once

Funny enough, this was done in the SF novel “The Hail Mary Project”, and derided by the scientists in the book for furthering climate problems dramatically by turning a normally heat reflective surface into a heat absorbent surface.

Worth investigating before committing our deserts to power collection.

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Re:Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from scie... by lozenge on Sunday September 10, 2023 @04:04AM (#37453828)
It's not a real concern. Might make for a good science Fiction story though. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2009/11/superfreakonomics...
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