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>Moreover, if the goal is for power generation to have zero impact on our biome I don't know if it is. The impacts could be positive, or at least counteract ot
by stevage 3y ago
>Moreover, if the goal is for power generation to have zero impact on our biome
I don't know if it is. The impacts could be positive, or at least counteract other negative impacts.
For instance, shading some ocean might counteract the heating of it.
- readyplayernull 3y agoBut would kill light dependent life and increase some bacterial and fungi populations that might not be healthy for animals.
- sandworm101 3y agoOceans are where co2 is turned into oxygen. We really dont want to be deliberately hampering that cycle. Put the panels on land, preferably atop sand or bare rock.
- ben_w 3y agoPrimary production is mostly concentrated in the costal regions. The following map's colour bands are on a log scale: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Seawifs_global_biosphere.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Seawifs_... There's other reasons not to put PV in the middle of the oceans, like the storms, and that if you're willing to make suitable transmission lines of that kind of distance, you can also perfectly well connect the Nevada and Namib deserts and put panels in each so the time zones are powering each other after sunset/before sunrise).