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No. This is how you generate attention. The proposed dimensions are equivalent to several centuries(!) of the global solar panel production, just to get to such
by qayxc 3y ago
No. This is how you generate attention. The proposed dimensions are equivalent to several centuries(!) of the global solar panel production, just to get to such coverage.
It's just as ridiculous and removed from reality as the claim that tidal energy isn't sustainable and would tidally lock Earth to the Moon in 1000 years that someone published [1].
Spherical cows for the publish-or-perish paper mill that's modern academia is what it is.
[1] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/tide.pdf https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/tide.pdf
- nico_h 3y agoThe time frame could probably be reduced if the demand was that high :)
- mcv 3y agoThe example is extreme, but they also point that out in the article. It's still useful to be able to model this, and as they point out, if you use a less extreme but still extremely ambitious 5% of the Sahara, the effect becomes negligible. So in theory, solar power could affect the climate by itself, but it practice it won't. But a model that shows that if you change something in this part of the world, it's going to affect rainfall in these other parts of the world, is still very interesting and potentially useful. It could help reduce desertification.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Spherical cows You’re using theoretical physics as your basis for criticising academia?