Come on. Convincing people they need something and then selling it to them is what capitalism is all about. It doesn’t matter how stupid the idea is, if you convince people to pay for it then by their standard, it’s a good idea.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Its also just fucking stupid.
You have two options:
One build an insanely, comically expensive series of mirrors to move solar energy to solar panels so you can power them at night…
OR…
Install twice as many solar panels on the ground. OR the same amount and battery storage, or any combination thereof.
Manjushri@piefed.social 3 days ago
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Would be cheaper just to launch the solar panels.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Even cheaper to just launch the billionaire funders as payload.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Then you need method of power transmission, usually microwaves or lasers, both come with energy losses. With microwaves you need a reliever and those can get about the size of a solar farm.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m just saying it’s more feasible than mirrors. Not that it’s actually feasible.