If all of mankind’s energy was supplied through solar panels would the effect be big enough to decrease the temperature (since light is converted in part to electricity)?

  • @[email protected]
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    201 month ago

    Technically, if you built enough solar panels in space, they would completely block the sun and massively decrease global temperature

    • @finitebanjo
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      01 month ago

      Yeah, on the earth surface 23% of the light gets absorbed by the atmosphere before it even hits the panel, and 85% of the remained doesn’t get absorbed by the panel at all.

      • @mojofrododojo
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        21 month ago

        perovskites offer tantalizing appearances of being able to take up more, and appear to be coming soon. few bits of good news but that’s one.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 month ago

        Most of the sunlight doesnt even hit Earth

        Could you imagine how much more energy we could produce if we used all the empty space in space?

        • @finitebanjo
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          11 month ago

          Now that right there is an idea within an idea, like a matryoshka brain.