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Re: "Somehow I doubt that solar will ever replace coal and oil."
Never? That's a long time. Plants are pretty efficient solar collectors. I can envision humans one day bio-engineering plants or growing fields of machines that mimic plants, and automatically routing the sugars and carbs they produce into fermentation tanks that yield alcohol, methane and other combustibles. Ubiquitous fuel tanks that automatically refill themselves could exist, giving us as much power as we'd need, even at night and even in winter.




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Re: The handwriting is on the wall, you just have to read it...
By: Zimbler0
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Thu, 12 Sep 19 2:51 AM
Msg. 04557 of 06530

Somehow I doubt that solar will ever replace coal and oil.
It just isn't 24 /seven reliable.

It will take solar panels becoming a lot more efficient
AND some means of storing surplus solar watts effectively
and cost competitively to do so.

Now we maybe can, and even should, be trying to replace
some of the peak demand watts with solar. Solar does
produce the most watts during the sunniest hottest part
of the day.

With that said, at least for the foreseeable future,
anybody who claims we can replace all our energy
needs with solar is a total idiot.

Zim.


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