• InvaderDJ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny, I think Vegas is perfectly fine as the city of sin so things like this really don’t phase me. It was built on the idea of crime and excess.

    What does seem weird to me is how in a desert, why isn’t everything solar? The sun is their only natural resource besides sand. Every rooftop and parking lot and flat surface possible seems like it should be a panel.

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      1 year ago

      Vegas is surrounded by empty desert, they don’t need to use rooftops and parking lots

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        1 year ago

        even deserts host life. it’s kind of a ecological misnomer that we could just cover the deserts of the world in solar panels. that would have serious repercussions.

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          1 year ago

          What repercussions could covering a few acres more in the mojave with solar panels have?

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          1 year ago

          Honestly if we could get space elevators figured out, the best place to put solar panels would be in the upper atmosphere. Tethered to the ground by massive columns that feed the energy they collect to massive capacitors on the ground?