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Technologies have side effects - some good, some bad. This effect of solar i admit i had not thought about.

• tomrod 3y ago
  It's not a direct effect of solar. It's cheaper energy with undisciplined resource abuse.
  • burnished 3y ago
    It is for the engineering mindset. 'If I build this, what will happen?' is a question you are taught to consider in school and some of the examples are much like this
    • tomrod 3y ago
      I totally get where you are coming from. I still disagree though. By definition, a second order effect is not a direct effect since an intervention after the first order effect can mediate second order effects. All the engineers I've had the pleasure to work with care a lot about outcomes to a reasonable level, somewhere closer to the butterfly flapping wings and further from the monsoon it causes. The direct effect is lower cost of energy. That it gets used to then pump water continuously is a second-order effect.