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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth' (www.livescience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Excuse me but the ENTIRE SUPPLY OF OIL ? Like... All of it? All unextracted oil that currently exists? Per year?

That is an absolutely fucking bonkers amount of energy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The sun does produce a phenomenal amount of energy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I literally can't imagine what we would need that much energy for. I think every single person on the planet could be using the current amount that americans use and it would still be many hundreds of times more than required.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

You know like desalinization, supercomputers, vertical farming, various experimental chemical processes and apertures. Human civilization is marked by the times humanity was able to harvest more energy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

There's an acute need for large scale carbon fixing