Comment on If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century?

• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty sure they have to be together. You can’t put one plate on the equator and one in Antarctica and generate infinite electricity

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  • Cheez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What if you had some sort of insulator, maybe a delicious layer of chocolate, making some sort of galactic wagon wheel?

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    • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It could work… but you would need an adequate layer of vanilla creme to compliment the chocolate.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Engineering is delicious.

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  • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s a DC current so would bleed off over distance anyway.

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well you could, but the resistance in a wire that long would kill it.

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• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure that does work but it’s not efficient.

  Thermal solar generators do exist but they use a liquid as a heat transport mechanism. These use mirrors to focus the sun into a single point. In general you get more efficiency when there’s a larger temperature difference.

  You could also get infinite energy by digging a deep hole since it gets hotter there deeper you dig. It’s just pretty expensive.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Geothermal is the solution we need more of.

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