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Grade school me always thought it was actually pretty simple. More heat means more energy. Just because we don't know how to harness it yet doesn't mean we can'
by darkerside 6y ago
Grade school me always thought it was actually pretty simple. More heat means more energy. Just because we don't know how to harness it yet doesn't mean we can't. We live off of the sun. Why would were go farther away instead of closer?
Maybe naive thoughts, but are they wrong?
- tambourine_man 6y agoYou need a heat gradient to take advantage of it. An uniformly hot place like Venus is a hard thermodynamic place. Mercury and our moon are actually interesting in that regard. I had similar fantasies as a kid, a huge pipe with a thermal fluid taking advantage of the difference in temperature between the cool and warm side of the planet/moon. But with today’s prices on solar panels, this will probably never happen.