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“Only we are Earthseed. And the destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.” —Octavia Butler (tweets don't reflect employer policy)

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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
Maybe space resources can help Earth survive. But, like the Polynesians who settled the Pacific, that's really not the primary reason humanity wishes to explore & settle this new ocean, the depths of space. (Quote below is from Christina Thompson's excellent book Sea People.)
Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat

"...Occasionally, there is famine or some other type of trouble, but usually it is a matter of chiefly ambition or pride." (Important. I've often been told the reason Polynesians explored & settled the Pacific is a desperate need for resources. Polynesians' own stories disagree.)

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JaggedMallard@jaggedmallards·
@Robotbeat @Exogynous I suspect any society capable of outputting that much power would be capable of the required Geo engineering. But it runs into the problem that with that much spare energy you'd just move things to space.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐
Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
Worth pointing out that much above 10TW average electrical power, it doesn’t matter your energy source because if you do it terrestrially, the waste heat alone will cause major local and global environmental issues. Nuclear, fusion, whathaveyou.
rip van wankle@vt__snowflake

Carpeting the Sahara would, paper napkin math, create ~1,500 terawatts of solar, which is around 150x the entirety of existing electricity generation on the planet from all sources. You are getting repeated pushback because you’re a moron who doesn’t understand scale

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Noe Carrier
Noe Carrier@inkysputter·
@Robotbeat Tomato, tomatoe. SPS are best though, yes. Big arrays in orbit of arbitrary size and microwave rectennas is too cheap to metre territory.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
@vapor_ware404 I’ve followed drone spraying quite a lot. You wouldn’t START with a setup like this, but it does make sense after iterating a bunch.
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vapor_ware404@vapor_ware404·
@Robotbeat There are very real constraints that this idea is running up against. Iowa State University's technology department has run classes for the public on the topic with full demonstrations of three different drone configurations. Before investing capital make sure you run the numbers
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Shai Machnes
Shai Machnes@shai_machnes·
@Robotbeat Not if it is solar. You're just shifting the heating from the location of the photovoltaic cells to the data center cooling towers.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
@Exogynous Nope. Thermodynamics. The only way to beat this is large scale geoengineering (some sort of albedo management, perhaps).
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NeilT@Exogynous·
@Robotbeat That depends on what your solution is for waste heat consumption. Also how you generate power and the heat outcome. If you have ideation which consumes waste heat and returns sub ambient, then you are more in balance.
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Casey Handmer@CJHandmer·
The article is correct. Improving stuff is ridiculously difficult. But it is worth it. All credit to the @TerraformIndies team for dogged persistence and consistent brilliance.
Ashlee Vance@ashleevance

May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical-…

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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
@MacleodFlorida Sounds like a good idea. I did see a guy (deer recovery YouTube channel) use a drone with a leaf blower clear snow off of solar panels.
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big stupid baby ‼️@cuntsatchels·
@rfhirschfeld I don't understand why rooftops and parking lots weren't the priority from the beginning!? Why is everything we do so ass backwards
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robert@rfhirschfeld·
Farmland isn't pristine nature. That is the last thing I need to be convinced of. But that doesn't mean 4,000 acres corn/soy to 4,000 acres solar is an improvement. Policy should push solar onto rooftops, parking lots, and brownfields first. Farmland can be more than silicon.
Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene@ryankatzrosene

This is only really “more logical” if you fall for the myth that farmland is some kind of “untouched nature”. In truth, (most) farmland is a human-shaped landscape just as much as a parking lot is. While I don’t think solar panels are a great fit in some agricultural contexts, there are farmers who have seen tremendous co-benefits when mixed in with pastured animals or various forms of horticulture.

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MSA@mikesarcher·
@SimonMahan Solar companies pay premium rents that often beat crop income. Subsidies to solar make those deals even sweeter.
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Simon Mahan@SimonMahan·
Folks that *only* want solar on rooftops, haven't put solar on their own rooftops. Do y'all think a solar farm sneaks up on a farmer and just sprouts up overnight without their permission? The land owners WANT to use their land for solar! "Save the farms" ignores FARMERS.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
Although the guy Rohde was responding to is in Scotland, which honestly sucks hard for solar (literally further north than the entire continental US, and by a lot), so it kind of makes sense he wouldn’t be as pro-Solar.
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·
Bingo. People crying crocodile tears on behalf of the poor farmers while literally calling for restricting farmers from using their land in a much more valuable and low-environmental-impact way than chemical drenched staple crops (often times not even edible by people).
Dr. Robert Rohde@RARohde

Sure, put solar panels on carparks. It's a good idea. But the insinuation that farmers are being forced to put solar panels on "prime farmland" is such nonsense. Nearly all solar panels being erected on farmland occurs because the land owner chose to do that.

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