B
2 min readNov 17, 2021

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It's funny that we agree almost 99% of the time. The one thing I don't get how you don't get, is that solar is not capable to provide the uninterrupted electric supply we need for our civilization to run. If you happen to run a bitcoin mine on solar and suddenly the cloud cover increases, then a good portion of your computers will be down immediately. Bam. Then comes the night - no solar, no power - and even worse than that: winter. With 16 hours of darkness (at least where I live). I haven't seen any storage capable to bridge these gaps on the scale needed today. And that's just electricity, which is a mere 20% of our energy use. The rest, well, its high heat (<1000°C) provided by fossil fuels desperately needed for melting iron and steel or manufacturing cement. Even nuclear would melt down at these temperatures. Not to mention solar heat, which is capable of these temperatures, sure - for about 10 minutes? Or an hour? Again, if something blocks the Sun, then your whole iron furnace is gone. When metal or glass freezes in it you can only get it out with dynamite (yes, I worked at a company melting glass on an industrial scale, and electrification was never an option). Sorry, there are a hundred more hard facts - not opinions - why solar simply cannot reproduce even its own basis of existence (30 tons of steel, glass, copper wires etc per each MW.) Please prove HOW its going to work, where the immense amount of material will come, and where do we find an experimental site proving that all this is working. So far I haven't seen none.

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