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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  3321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The coming era of unlimited — and free — clean energy

I remember reading 3001 a space odyssey , where the author talks about this situation.

Think about what happens when we cover the earth with panels designed to absorb and hold in heat. We take that energy in, absorb it, and it becomes infrared light, light that would have been reflected by not-as-efficient energy sources.

So we don't really escape the issue in the long term, just shift it's cause.

Still, better than global warming as it exists today, and I doubt that having solar panels spread everywhere will cause as much warming as fossil fuels do.

And the issue-fix-issue-fix pattern continues.