alt Hacker NewsRight now it is.
However, the amount of available land is fixed and the demand for its use is growing. Solar isn't the only buyer in this real estate market.
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shagie • yesterday at 11:43 PM
Realizing the impracticality of it (and that such approaches often collapse under the infeasibility of it) ... wouldn't it be better to... say... cover the Sahara in solar panels instead? That's gotta be cheaper than shipping them into space.
https://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-solar-project-sahara-de...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/01/solar-power...
(and a retrospective from 2023 - https://www.ecomena.org/desertec/ )
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PunchyHamster • yesterday at 11:38 PM
the demand is pretty much fake and AI isn't actually making money, just gobbling investors money
henryfjordan • yesterday at 11:44 PM
Solar can always just go on the roof...
We have so much excess land with no real use for it that our government actually pays farmers to grow corn on it to burn in cars.
Availability of land for solar production isn't remotely a real problem in the near term.