Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky.

A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do I have an overwhelming urge to climb that

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  • Hedup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know if you’re a moth, you can just fly up there.

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    • humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No brother!

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      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        BRotHeR i cRaVe foR tHe ForBiDDen liGhT

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  • Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You played too many Ubisoft games.

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  • fascicle@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you perhaps living in a place where it snows or something

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    • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sam McGee just wants to do free climbing

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      • PointyFluff@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Um…no.

        Sam McGee just wants to be warm

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Better solar power extractor.

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  • RavingGrob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      do you not know how those work?

      the sun shines on the side angled upwards and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises, so this raises the blade, creating the spinning motion.

      it’s basic, really. third grade stuff.

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I really love how it’s almost that simple.

        the sun shines on the side angled upwards planet and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises, so this raises creating winds that drive the blade, creating the spinning motion.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The sun heats the planet unevenly, this causes wind. Wind is solar

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• agentTeiko@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its even more metal they heat salt that heats water to spin the turbine. This keeps the power generation well after sun down.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Although they’re falling out of use these days, both because they’re not very environmentally friendly on account of being instant bird death-rays, and also because regular solar panels are cheap enough that it’s not worth it to make a big thermosolar plant.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Habitat destruction and pesticides are unfathomably worse for birds.

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    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And I’m not sure how much alive things are in the Atacama (except when there is a blooming desert fenomenon.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk, my country just inaugurated a gigantic one of these.

    Also, fotovoltaic pannels decay with time and have to be replaced, 15 years I think? Their manufacturing isn’t also the greenest thing on earth.

    You build one of these, and you can run it for a long long time.

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    • drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      15 years I think

      This number gets lower every time I see it.

      First, manufacturers typically guarantee their panels for 25 to 30 years.

      Second, while we can extrapolate from existing data and perform accelerated aging tests, we’re actually not completely sure how long PV panels last in the real world because the oldest ones from 1987 are still going.

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    • asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fotovoltaic pannels decay with time and have to be replaced, 15 years I think?

      much longer: slashgear.com/…/solar-panel-lifespan-longer-new-s…

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lies! Well the thermal plant is also fine but photovoltaics are really, really good.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

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  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if it could be worth it to make one of those on other planets/the Moon one day. No birds to worry about there.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Solar panels are still cheaper and easier. Most spaceships and probes rely on them.

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      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yea, I should have guessed as much.

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    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not a lot of atmosphere on the moon.

      Transmitting heat across distances in effectively a vacuum doesn’t work too well.

      Just look a the size of the radiators the ISS has to have, and they’re not even sending heat anywhere in particular, that’s just getting it off station

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      • Doxin@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re getting thermal radiation and convection confused. The ISS has giant radiators because it’s a right pain in the ass to turn heat into thermal radiation, and it cannot rely on convection to cool things like you can here on earth. Turning thermal radiation into heat on the other hand is pretty trivial. Just don’t reflect it and it’ll turn into heat. These things aren’t transporting heat across distances. They are transporting thermal radiation across distances. That works as well in a vacuum – if not better – as it does on earth.

        If thermal radiation doesn’t work in a vacuum, how is the sun heating anything up?

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      • Riverside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The mirrors on Earth don’t transfer the energy using the air between the mirror and the collector, they just bounce the spicy photons which can travel even better in a vacuum.

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      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or in the Atacama, the Desertiest desert on earth!

        Where the gigantic Cerro Dominador Termosolar Power Plant opened a couple years ago.

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• ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ahkshually, those tend to boils salt…which is later used to boil water.

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That technology is a relic of the past. Solar panels are cheap and efficient now. Just use solar panels.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And much easier to operate and troubleshoot.

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• AzuranAurora@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s what they want you to think. I bet it also powers a secret orbital space laser. I should know, a man with a theoretical degree in physics told me.

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