>>94820
>>94822
Oh.
I mean not even small patches of the Sahara? Kind of like a small, manmade oasis on a slightly larger scale so it's like a small meadow in the desert?
>>94823
Something something one people etc.
Also for the past 8 years I'd say both religions have been living in really good harmony because the common enemy are extreme muslims
I'm not touching that conversation because it would be hypocrisy of me. I'm not a christian by birth or "officially".
>>94824
>>94825
I'm going off my Photovoltiac class here.
Basically solar panels require an "alloy" of metals. You can't just pick one "best" alloy because the alloy determines what limited range of light frequencies the panel will absorb(and creating a panel that can absorb wide ranges requires layering alloys which is expensive as fuck). To even begin to create the alloy is also a very energy hungry process because it requires very high temperatures to melt those metals in a crucible. But melting stuff in a crucible introduces impurities which means what little, inconsistent energy you can get out of the sun is lowered because your already shitty panel efficiencies(I'm not up to date here but last I checked 25~% was the best you could get) is even lowered, so you can also spend more energy instead melting the metals using magnets and eddy currents for a purer crystal.
Oh but remember light reflects and refracts so not all of the light incident on your panel is actually useful so you can spend more energy making complex, graded index panels so that less light refracts and you can gather more of the light you wanted to gather in the first place but you're losing so much of. And let's go even further, what about the fact that your panel is never always at the optimal angle to gather the best amount of sunlight throughout the entire year, so you should have them built on some sort of rotating platform so that they can be rotated to the optimal angle per season. But wait, the panels are not also gathering sunlight optimally throughout the day, so do you mechanize the platform and have it operating 24/7, 365? Or do you just take the power loss?
What about cleaning? If one part of the panel is shaded, or dirty, or not gathering as much sunlight as the rest of the panel, the entire panel gathers far, FAR less energy. So do you also introduce automated cleaning, or do you have some guy drive out of the middle of nowhere every day to clean literal kilometers of solar panels every day(We gather shittons of dust here) which also consumes energy because how are they going to get there in the first place?
Not to mention that behavior of shading is destructive towards the panel because the parts that generate more power have to sink that power somewhere in order to match the parts that generate less power, and that sinking comes in the form of massive heat which destroys the panel. So in order to combat that you have to introduce diodes(which are semiconductors, which see all the problems with chip shortages/fabrications, etc, and these are big ones as far as I know, not small integrated ones) to "bypass" shaded areas in order to avoid massive power loss and panel destruction, but said diodes also introduce an element of power loss because that's just how diodes are.
What about the actual heat? Because the hotter your panels are the less power you can get out of them altogether. So do you do like (allegedly) china does and build floating platforms on water bodies for the solar panels to gather sunlight on while remaining relatively cool? What effect then would the water vapor have? Would you be affecting life in said water bodies then?
And even after all that there's still the issue of actually transferring that energy because that then introduces power losses and all sorts of headaches.
And what about nights, the panels are just sitting there doing nothing but taking up space and gathering up dust.
Solar panels are great for small things. Motors that aren't used much, storing energy for smaller lighting projects, stuff like powering small gadgets like a calculator(I still have my scientific calculator from 2012 I think and I haven't replaced the battery since, it's still powered. I've also noticed that a lot of these "self powered gadgets" that use human characteristics as their power source like movement or body heat are in the range of 0.1milli-microwatts so it's more than great for applications like that). It's completely unrealistic for powering a city and I'm more than sure it does more harm than good in that regard.
Again I have no idea what I'm talking about in the following, but I find it odd how with all of this talk of wanting "alternative energy" that there hasn't been a massive push towards nuclear fusion since apparently it has massive energy generating potential and the only byproducts would be hydrogen.
I mean I get why because going from oil to a different, better energy source would probably fuck the global economy and no one wants to make that leap. Or maybe I'm just stupid and I never looked deeper into the less idealistic side of fusion
I still don't buy "climate change" as an actual thing though. I don't feel that summers are any hotter or that winters are any cooler and having never seen snow ever in my life I wouldn't mind it snowing once as a freak accident or it raining slightly more instead of once a year
>>94828
I'm also curious about this. Does it have anything to do with the American corn industry or how insidious and lopsided the FDSA appears to be towards corporations?
>>94830
Oh man thank you for reminding me that Helck, and by extension Surreal Sword Saga, exists. I should catch up on that.