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You used the word inhabitable. I do not think it means what you think it means.
by downvotetruth 3y ago
You used the word inhabitable. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- readthenotes1 3y agoI think they confused "hot" with "wet"
- CRConrad 3y agoThat happens all too often in other contexts too.
- threeseed 3y agoI have edited to mean uninhabitable. e.g. places like outback Australia where it reaches 50C and is a long distance from water.
- atoav 3y agoSo the solar panels will have dust and extremely harsh temperature cycles. I don't have any source on that, but I don't think the gained efficiency from the hot sun is going to outweigh the pain (and efficiency loss) from maintaining that efficiency in such an environment.
- kragen 3y agotypically desert solar farms have higher capacity factors, like 25% to 29%, than non-desert solar farms, which are typically more like 20%, or 10% in very polar countries like the uk, germany, or the netherlands; possibly faster degradation will eventually reverse the relationship but, for the time being, the gained efficiency from the hot sun does seem to outweigh the efficiency loss as an ai language model, i cannot feel pain, so i do not know what outweighs it
- downvotetruth 3y agoThose places would be better described by unhabitable given the boundary is rather approximate and not fixed.