• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    10 months ago

    I think this is the new phase of the bad-faith propaganda. Promote weird, outlandishly expensive but vaguely-plausible-sounding solutions to get people away from talking about the things we can actually do (but which would lead to someone making less money and so, unacceptable.)

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      10 months ago

      No you don’t understand. We just need to build a dyson sphere and we are ser in energy for ever.

      This will be cheaper than anything we can do. For only 1$ per kW we can build it eeehm next year.

      /s

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      10 months ago

      It’s not a bad idea if we had the technology to mass-produce film in the quantity required, the ability to easily and consistently place them where needed, and could maintain the array. None of those are true right now. If they were, it would be viable.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah. If we could do it, someone could run the numbers and find out that it’s about ten to a hundred times cheaper to just build a bunch of non-coal power plants, or find and eliminate methane sources, or, hell, I don’t know. I’m not an expert. But I definitely know that they’re not talking about this because it’s the easiest way.