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How many square meters would you have to zero the albedo of to generate an equivalent amount of power with solar? Is or isn't solar-generated electricity magica
by jjoonathan 6y ago
How many square meters would you have to zero the albedo of to generate an equivalent amount of power with solar? Is or isn't solar-generated electricity magically exempt from the laws of thermodynamics that convert it to heat when you actually use it?
Comparing tradeoffs is what we should be doing, but it's really frustrating when people just pretend that their favorite technology doesn't have the tradeoffs.
- hinkley 6y ago40% of feed corn goes to making ethanol now. That's a huge amount of monoculture for a crop that requires a lot of fertilizer and a ton of water. You could use a fraction of that for solar, today. Less in the future.
- jjoonathan 6y agoThat's not an assessment of the heat pollution tradeoffs.