In reply to grok's message of Mon, 4 May 2009 10:32:17 -0700: Hi, [snip] >> While this is true, don't forget that about 70% of the surface area is >> water. That makes collecting solar energy there more difficult >> (particularly as one has to take severe storms into account). > >Who's talking about the oceans for solar (or the nighttime side of the >Sun for that matter)? Any World energy grid would connect thru the Bering >Strait between Siberia and Alaska, and between Southeast Asia into >Indonesia and New Guinea and Australia, etc.
I was thinking about the time that there is very little land mass in daylight, i.e. when the sun is over the Pacific. > >Real issues, for me, would revolve around changing the ecology/climate of >e.g. the Sahara or Oz, with kilometer-long arrays of solar collectors >taking up vast hectareage of real-estate, etc. IMO the ecology and climate of Oz could do with some changing. :) > >But again: any fundamental breakthrus like CF will completely change this >equation. And IMO for the better. We really, really want to severely >lessen the human footprint on the planet, I would think. [snip] I would like to turn deserts into forests. (BTW, could you remove your "reply to", as this makes responding to the list easier?) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
