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If we had a solar panel the size of California, what would we do with it? Is there a flat contiguous area of land that size where no one lives, or does it float
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
If we had a solar panel the size of California, what would we do with it? Is there a flat contiguous area of land that size where no one lives, or does it float in the ocean?
I guess the idea is that since we're imagining things that don't exist anyway, we could assume the panel is made of invisible pixie dust. But at least for me, drilling a ten mile hole is intuitively easier to envision.
Maybe that's ill-informed on my part, I don't know, but it's why the idea is appealing. It instinctively seems like a feasible task.
- chaosbolt 4y agoThe Sahara desert and Australia are huge but at least for the thermosolar farm in the Moroccan desert, the difficulty is transporting the electricity far enough to sell it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
- pmoriarty 4y agoAnother option is to build it in space. Lots of room there.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoIt's easy to generate solar power in space, but difficult to do anything with it.