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Will it help kick the brown people out of my country

fpbp this is the only important question

Government subsidies instead of offshore drilling?

If they get forced to work to install them, then maybe

They are useless for anything but helping with peak load until sci-fi tier power storage becomes available.

Nuclear > solar

The future is pretty fucking lame. Asimov would be sad that we don't have palm sized fusion reactors powering our force shields and propulsion packs.

solar panels belong on space ships.

They aren't in the same niche of power production, so they aren't really competing.

Or a warehouse filled with exploding lithium batteries to power Tesla cars mostly powered by a coal run power plant. Or something like that.

This, our battery technology is fucking pathetic and needs some serious advancements.

We have the biggest battery in the universe, the sun. Let's throw a few trillion dollars at it and see if it can magically power all of our gizmos.

No. But it will give stupid coal workers an actual job

Or lets go nuclear, which is the smartest option.

Then they can vote Republican and save the country from Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer.

Indeed, we should focus more on R&D first, when we get better storage and output, we can then work on panels. It means nothing if the output cannot match the demand.

I with you on that, but it scares soyboys.

Not for those that live under the damn clouds half theyear

>solar voltaic
>not preferring solar thermal
Enjoy your awful efficiency, faggot.

The dangers are extremely exaggerated.

patrician taste my man

I agree, but they don't buy facts, just hype.

>driving down the i-15 towards LA
>see the liquid sodium rig
>blinded
every time

The government should retrain people employed in coal and other harmful industries in cleaner forms of energy production like solar and nuclear
The fact of the matter is that solar & co. are the future, America should stop holding onto the past and sprint into the future for control of future energy industries
Or don't, let the EU/China win

There's one that's southwest of Las Vegas that's equally a problem.

thats the one im referencing, like 15-20 minutes from the city

pretty sure they are working in building these things too. of course it's the South West

nice

There's other methods to convert solar energy into steam, one example is just using large black pads with a good heat capacity liquid inside, which is then pumped through a heat exchanger.
The solar tower method is retarded.

Not if its using silicon cells. Third generation cells are coming out that will drop the price of solar by half if not more.

nope that is pretty gay

use a pyramyd to focus the magnetic frequencies from the earth and just hook up a copper wire thru the middle and bang free power.

its most certainly not retarded, its extremely efficient given that it requires very minimal maintenance and occupies less space than its competition

I don't hate solar but I hate solar shills who shill for their solar scam farms. Idiot politicians just throw money away for these fuckers to profit with

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It's fucking awful

It requires a lot of maintenance as reflectors require constant cleaning.

>Saudi Arabia
>Autistic screeching

Exactly. If it were feasible and profitable, then venture capital would be shitting out solar start ups like mad.
However, the only solar corporations that we saw were subsidized shell companies during Obamas tenure.

checked

>perfect solar to efficiently extract hydrogen from water
>cheap and clean storable, near infinite electricity
>nah, just buy my shitty degradable Tesla bateries
Everything is a farce.

How retarded would it be to go Solar -> Hydrogen to store the power since battery tech is still shit?

Orbital farms, maybe. Ground based solar is dogshit unless you live in the desert. At which point it's slightly less shit.

Douchebag Sun
>the sun is so important
>all the energy comes from the sun
>life wouldn't be possible without it
What a cunt, let's build its ego more by building millions of mirrors so it can just look at itself all day