I tried plugging my phone into the elm tree out back. Turns out it doesn’t work, and also it wasn’t an elm tree, it was the neighbor, and he was pissed when he woke up.
I wonder how much sunlight we can convert into stored energy until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface.
It’s probably an absurd proportion of solar panel coverage.
Solving too many mysteries is not a complaint I have for the scientists… Not having free energy yet is
Have you not noticed the bright ball of gas that lights up the sky during the day?
It bathes the earth in free energy.
Nothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will consume the Earth to settle the debt we own him.
Based on current predictions that will happen in about 3.5 billion years.
So I think we will be fine.
Yeah, but you have to put energy into getting that energy.
Not if you are a plant.
I tried plugging my phone into the elm tree out back. Turns out it doesn’t work, and also it wasn’t an elm tree, it was the neighbor, and he was pissed when he woke up.
Well, there is your problem, it should be ash for apple products and Birch for Android.
If you are lucky and have a eucalyptus near by they work for all phones.
Potatoes work better.
That’s why we’ve been trapping all this extra energy! Free real estate baby. It’s just good economics.
…I’ve just been informed that DC is now underwater
Failing that, you can always hook up to the neighbors power meter;
Only for the next 5 billion years! And then what???
If we haven’t made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.
I wonder how much sunlight we can convert into stored energy until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface.
It’s probably an absurd proportion of solar panel coverage.
Surface area of the earth: 510,064,472 km²
So at any moment ~255…000.000 km² of the earth is hit with solar radiation. I think we have a while before it becomes an issue.
I think I just found the solution to climate change boys 😎
nothing can be free in a capitalist society
unless you mean perpetual motion/magic energy in which case that was solved hundreds of years ago. It can’t be done