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lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nothing is free. Eventually Huītzilōpōchtli will collect its debt and consume the Earth.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Based on current predictions that will happen in about 3.5 billion years.

      So I think we will be fine.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but you have to put energy into getting that energy.

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not if you are a plant.

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      • DharmaCurious@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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  • Hexagon@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only for the next 5 billion years! And then what???

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If we haven't made it off earth by then, well we are shit out of luck.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Failing that, you can always hook up to the neighbors power meter;

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  • TheOakTree@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      until we are non-trivially detracting from the amount of energy that reaches the earth’s surface.

      I think I just found the solution to climate change boys 😎

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  nothing can be free in a capitalist society

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