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I see a few comments saying this can also be used to "solve" climate change, but I am trying to understand the how. Do people mean that the world will have less

• XorNot 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energy_storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ... You build a big inductor, and because it's superconducting current just goes round and round. At room temperature you have no refrigeration losses, you can build more just as fast as you can kick out superconductor. It would be 100% efficient, have 0 self-discharge, and enormous power capacity and infinite power cycles.
• NeoTar 3y ago
  I think it may be that electrical power could be generated in places where (carbon free) energy production can be abundant but consumption is low (e.g. Solar power in the Sahara desert) and then transported with almost no losses to sites of high energy consumption (e.g. the cities of North Africa and Europe).
  • BizarroLand 3y ago
    North America could be powered with a small section of Nevada being covered in Solar Panels, given a theoretical transmission loss of only a few percent from one side of the country to the next. Bolster that with windmills and hydroelectric and that would be that for the next 30 years. Electricity would be cheaper and more plentiful than water in many areas.
• pshc 3y ago
  Even if we replaced all fossil fuels overnight we still wouldn't have "solved" climate change--the damage we have done is locked in for the long term. We need active mitigation to restore Arctic ice, de-acidify the oceans, save coral reefs, bring back old weather patterns, etc.
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