Reply to post: Re: Hmm

8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Hmm

if you do the math and factor in time of day/latitude, you may find that your terrestrial solar runs into "certain issues" regarding total energy production vs consumption

Just because you can slightly outmatch carbon sourced electricity generation with wind/solar doesn't change the factor that electricity production only accounts for 1/3 of carbon emissions and decarbonising the rest will need an increase in generation capacity (TWh/year) of between 4-6 times over existing carbon-emitting electricity generation

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