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.
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
The usual warranty period is 20 years generating 80% of the nameplate generating Watts
They keep generating reasonable amounts of power 50 or 100 years later, though they tend to get overtaken by new technology in 10 to 20 years, and since they pay for themselves in about 4 years in my area they get replaced while still working well
I think we export our obsolete panels to developing nations
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.
Only that sun fell on plants millions of years ago. We really don’t want that million year old carbon dioxide in the atmosphere alongside the recent stuff
AFAIR you can’t get new coal/oil because in the meantime there are fungi in the ground that would process the dead plants/alge/whatever was pressed to make the hydrocarbons. but i can’t find the source of that info, so grain of salt
It’s not like we need it to breath anyways. We’ll just pay corporations for oxygen masks and “Atmo-tanks” to breath. We have commodify everything because Capitalism requires it.
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.
Yeah about that.
Those are termosolar powerplant, they use the sun to boil water and spin a turbine.
Its even more metal they heat salt that heats water to spin the turbine. This keeps the power generation well after sun down.
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.
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.
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
Habitat destruction, air pollution, and pesticides are unfathomably worse for birds.
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.
The usual warranty period is 20 years generating 80% of the nameplate generating Watts
They keep generating reasonable amounts of power 50 or 100 years later, though they tend to get overtaken by new technology in 10 to 20 years, and since they pay for themselves in about 4 years in my area they get replaced while still working well
I think we export our obsolete panels to developing nations
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.
Lies! Well the thermal plant is also fine but photovoltaics are really, really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM
much longer: https://www.slashgear.com/1989112/solar-panel-lifespan-longer-new-study/
Ahkshually, those tend to boils salt…which is later used to boil water.
Better solar power extractor.
If you think about it coal fired power plants are also solar powered 🤔
Only that sun fell on plants millions of years ago. We really don’t want that million year old carbon dioxide in the atmosphere alongside the recent stuff
Very true, the conclusion I’m drawing is that solar power is actively harming the environment and causing climate change. No new solar!
Fine to think of it, it’s also renewable!
AFAIR you can’t get new coal/oil because in the meantime there are fungi in the ground that would process the dead plants/alge/whatever was pressed to make the hydrocarbons. but i can’t find the source of that info, so grain of salt
Stupid science and its “biology” ane “evolutionary timelines” always trying to ruin my fun…
Are you referring to lignen developing before there was a bilogical process to break it down?
True, just that an intermediate step(of many steps) is to continually destroy the atmosphere.
It’s not like we need it to breath anyways. We’ll just pay corporations for oxygen masks and “Atmo-tanks” to breath. We have commodify everything because Capitalism requires it.
C’mon Cohegan, give dees peepul aihhhhhh
The sun heats the planet unevenly, this causes wind. Wind is solar
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.
I really love how it’s almost that simple.
the sun shines on the
side angled upwardsplanet and heats it up. everybody knows hot air rises,so this raisescreating winds that drive the blade, creating the spinning motion.Why do I have an overwhelming urge to climb that
You played too many Ubisoft games.
You know if you’re a moth, you can just fly up there.
No brother!
BRotHeR i cRaVe foR tHe ForBiDDen liGhT
Are you perhaps living in a place where it snows or something
Sam McGee just wants to do free climbing
Um…no.
Sam McGee just wants to be warm
Yeah that was the joke