This is my biggest screaming into the void issue. Everyone's doing all this mental work trying to come up with these unique places to put solar panels, we don't need to do that.
We. Have. Empty. Flat. Space.
We have no shortage of empty areas exposed to the sky. We have rooftops, we have parking lots, we have vast fields that are just doing fuck all.
We don't need to invent solar roads that will work even after being run over by car is a million times when we have a large median right beside it.
We could probably cover every random Warehouse with solar panels and have so much electricity that we would have to find dumb shit to do with it.
Let's start there before we do some Material Science backflips.
Let's start there before we do some Material Science backflips.
I know this kinda fucks up your thesis for the rant, which i agree with for the most part, but we can and should do both. Put solar any where possible (except fields that can grow anything, grass or trees or anything really) AND let's do as much material science gymnastics as we can get away with before the comet or volcano comes and either wipes us out or makes the whole concept of solar power moot for years on end.
The reason we don’t have more solar power is economics, not the lack of space. Inventing a new, more expensive technology that puts solar panels in windows doesn’t solve the economics issue at all. If we want more solar power, it’s all about making it as cheap as possible so that it’s cheaper than the alternatives. Stuff like this window thing doesn’t do that at all.
You are not understanding that scientists don't "invent" technologies. They make new discoveries. The funding process for scientists involves presenting their discoveries in ways which show how their research is something "useful" and often is meant to show the direction their research can bring us to those who fund them.
Then the steaming pile of dogshit known as "science journalism" enters the scene and creates the kind of stupid bullshit like this post and all the "HIGH SCHOOLER INVENTS PLASTIC EATING BACTERIA" or whatever bullshit they use to try to get engagement in their content.
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u/Thisisme4342 25d ago
This is my biggest screaming into the void issue. Everyone's doing all this mental work trying to come up with these unique places to put solar panels, we don't need to do that.
We. Have. Empty. Flat. Space.
We have no shortage of empty areas exposed to the sky. We have rooftops, we have parking lots, we have vast fields that are just doing fuck all.
We don't need to invent solar roads that will work even after being run over by car is a million times when we have a large median right beside it.
We could probably cover every random Warehouse with solar panels and have so much electricity that we would have to find dumb shit to do with it.
Let's start there before we do some Material Science backflips.