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"Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth -- 173,000 terawatts of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times t
by callmemclovin 2y ago
"Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on earth -- 173,000 terawatts of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use."
source: https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-about-solar-energy https://www.energy.gov/articles/top-6-things-you-didnt-know-...
I'd say we don't run out of renewable energy in the near future, we just have to collect more of it.
- vargr616 2y agoand what about at night? or all the nordic datacenters, where polar nights happen?
- justinclift 2y agoGeothermal engineering. We can slow down the planet for our data centres too! :D
- himinlomax 2y agoHow much solar electricity is generated at night? During cloudy winters in higher latitudes? During rainy season in lower latitudes? Do you know that wind often goes to zero across Europe for days at end in Europe in Winter? Last winter that was the case for nearly 2 weeks. How much would battery storage cost to cover for that? The solution is here, thankfully: nuclear.
- nabla9 2y agoI'm pro nuclear but I refuse to accept pro-nuclear arguments when they don't match the problem at hand. When you are talking about more nuclear, you are thinking almost decade from now. If you get permission for a new nuclear reactor today, it starts to produce energy 6 to 8 years from now. It could be possible 3 to 5 years in the ideal conditions that never happen.
- vargr616 2y agoif only the shareholders could wait 5 years and plan ahead for the long road, instead of demanding +50% ROI in the next quarter
- nabla9 2y agoThey have planned ahead. There is enough capacity to run the data centers. Electricity is just more expensive.
- postepowanieadm 2y agoSame goes with solar/wind - batteries are not there yet and we don't know when they will be here. Nuclear is predictable.
- nabla9 2y agoSolar/wind/natural gas combination is there. That's what is happening. People are jumping into conclusions that there is not enough energy to run those data centers. There absolutely is. It has been planned.
- himinlomax 2y agoNatural gas is a carbon source. It's a fake solution.
- nabla9 2y agoIt's the only solution to augment renewables until there is better storage technology.
- himinlomax 2y agoIt's a fake "solution" that doesn't solve the problem. Nuclear is a real solution that solves the problem. It's the only solution that does with current technology.
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