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Is that a serious question?

• lazide 3y ago
  Yes. The dominant (essentially only at the surface) source of heat on the planet is the Sun? When would insolation NOT correlate with temperature?
  • adwn 3y ago
    Of course it was sarcasm. I meant to highlight the major problem for using renewables for heating: you'll need most of the power when the least amount of daily solar insolation is available – in winter. This means you either need a lot of storage capacity, or a lot of transfer capacity from far away places, to cover several days of dunkelflaute [1]. This problem is solvable, but it's hard and expensive to solve in practice. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute
    • lazide 3y ago
      I couldn’t tell because many people make arguments (or imply) that it doesn’t matter with an apparently straight face all the time! Including large scale gov’t programs. Including other comments on this exact thread where people did exactly that.