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The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On::It’s turbo time.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    319·
    1 year ago

    Not feasible now. Project a hundred or four hundred years. What if some future Elon is building fully AI controlled factories that do nothing but push out wind turbines that are getting increasingly taller to find moving air.

    See also: the ocean is too big to pollute.

      • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
        211·
        1 year ago

        When I was in grad school for planetary sciences, my fellow grad students decided I was naturally high. Is looking at the big picture being high? If so, meow.

    • darth_helmetEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Feasibility aside, it’d be a lot more practical to get cracking on that Dyson swarm. Photovoltaics are a much more efficient way to capture solar energy, or even direct solar thermal (ie mirrors and steam turbines)

      • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Dyson swarm is great, but only if it isn’t beaming power back to the earth. If it’s beaming back energy to earth, we’re effectively pointing mirrors at the earth so it captures more energy from the sun. That’s sort of the opposite of what we’re trying to achieve.

        • MeowoemEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          But if we’ve got a Dyson swarm then we’ve got the power needed to do really intense weather modification, we could build a big facility in the south pole to refreeze it and beam the excess heat to Mars or one of the more distant space bases