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> 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 Fu
by falcolas 3y ago
> 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.
- lozenge 3y agoIt's not a real concern. Might make for a good science Fiction story though. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2009/11/superfreakonomics-climate-contrarianism/ https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2009/11/superfreakonomics...