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Isn’t solar energy a SPOF? It goes to zero MW roughly every 12 hours at any given location on Earth where most people live due to the availability of the Sun’s
by datadeft 2y ago
Isn’t solar energy a SPOF? It goes to zero MW roughly every 12 hours at any given location on Earth where most people live due to the availability of the Sun’s light.
- hoherd 2y agoMaybe, but at what cost? There is no such thing as "solar fallout". Doesn't the SPOF come with the trade-off of incredibly low risk of causing long term high-mortality rates of all life in the surrounding area?
- numpad0 2y agoSolars go first in any disasters and there's cleanup cost of destroyed panels, so there is such thing as solar fallout. They also don't decay unlike radioactive fallout.
- dalyons 2y agothat... is not even close to comparable. A hurricane smashes a bunch of your local panels, you go and pick them up, and if they're too damaged throw them in landfill. Fukushima is going to cost between $470 billion and $660 billion to clean up. A solar "cleanup" would not even be a 10000th of that cost. Why even mention this?
- numpad0 2y agoIt is. They just don't take a lot of weather, so they're not more than disposable subsidy capture device if you live in places that storms and flying debris are normal. Solar panels are glasses painted with heavy metal stained glasses, so you can't leave the panels around, they have to be recovered. All moot points if they last indefinitely where you are, serious points if they don't.
- Ghaenergyyy 2y agoIF solar would be the only thing people do, yes. Thats just not the case. Solar is used together with wind and storage. And there are very little energy systems which rwould relia only on solar. More north you go, there is often water.