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OccasionSpiritual542 t1_ixy8zo4 wrote

Was looking for this but no one seems to notice it.

Problem of global warming is considered important at the moment, but this external solar arrays technology is transferring energy that otherwise would just go to space, it means that you are adding even more energy to the system that already struggles to cool(global warming as we have now is earth loosing cooling efficiency) that is a huge new factor that might lead to further destabilization of climate

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ItsAConspiracy t1_ixyriyi wrote

Fossil fuels don't just emit CO2, they produce waste heat. The microwave beam would produce the same waste heat, without the CO2. The waste heat from fossil fuels is well under 1% of their greenhouse effect, so that's a pretty good deal.

If we got all our energy from solar panels, the albedo change from all those block panels would also cause the planet to absorb more energy (and of course that'd be a relatively minor effect, too).

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