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minus-square lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) linkfedilinkEnglish10•11 months agoSolving too many mysteries is not a complaint I have for the scientists… Not having free energy yet is
minus-square Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) linkfedilink22•11 months ago Not having free energy yet is Have you not noticed the bright ball of gas that lights up the sky during the day? It bathes the earth in free energy.
minus-square IWantToFuckSpez ( @IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ) linkfedilink9•edit-211 months agoNothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will consume the Earth to settle the debt we own him.
minus-square Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) linkfedilink5•11 months agoBased on current predictions that will happen in about 3.5 billion years. So I think we will be fine.
minus-square Hexagon ( @Hexagon@feddit.it ) linkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoOnly for the next 5 billion years! And then what???
minus-square Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) linkfedilink4•11 months agoIf we haven’t made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.
minus-square TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoI wonder how much sunlight we can convert into stored energy until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface. It’s probably an absurd proportion of solar panel coverage.
minus-square bingbong ( @bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months ago until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface. I think I just found the solution to climate change boys 😎
minus-square Pons_Aelius ( @Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ) linkfedilink2•11 months agoSurface area of the earth: 510,064,472 km² So at any moment ~255…000.000 km² of the earth is hit with solar radiation. I think we have a while before it becomes an issue.
minus-square TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) linkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-211 months agonothing can be free in a capitalist society unless you mean perpetual motion/magic energy in which case that was solved hundreds of years ago. It can’t be done
Solving too many mysteries is not a complaint I have for the scientists… Not having free energy yet is
Have you not noticed the bright ball of gas that lights up the sky during the day?
It bathes the earth in free energy.
Nothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will consume the Earth to settle the debt we own him.
Based on current predictions that will happen in about 3.5 billion years.
So I think we will be fine.
Only for the next 5 billion years! And then what???
If we haven’t made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.
I wonder how much sunlight we can convert into stored energy until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface.
It’s probably an absurd proportion of solar panel coverage.
I think I just found the solution to climate change boys 😎
Surface area of the earth: 510,064,472 km²
So at any moment ~255…000.000 km² of the earth is hit with solar radiation. I think we have a while before it becomes an issue.
nothing can be free in a capitalist society
unless you mean perpetual motion/magic energy in which case that was solved hundreds of years ago. It can’t be done