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re: Apparently in the future data will be processed at solar-powered, orbital data centers.
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:59 pm to TheRealTigerHorn
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:59 pm to TheRealTigerHorn
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Ground-based solar will always be a losing battle. Takes up too much land, too inefficient, expensive to store, ad infinitum.
This illustrates the lack of vision that separates the vast majority of us from people like Edison*.
The power storage solutions are one of the largest areas of research focus today, and even if the Donut battery is a scam large scale high efficiency electrical storage will exist at some point.
The same with solar conversion science, it is still very inefficient today but that will certainly change over time. Keep in mind there are plenty of houses in the US that run at a net positive electrical production.
* Edison was used for his general position in the zeitgeist of the great inventor era and his pereceived contributions versus the ones he "just" improved.
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Posted on 1/30/26 at 12:07 am to Obtuse1
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The same with solar conversion science, it is still very inefficient today but that will certainly change over time.
There’s new cell tech coming out this year that will have stacked cells because we’ve figured out how to make them translucent enough to pass the power production spectrum from different technologies through. Right now 430-440Wp is about max for an N type residential module. We’ll be over 600Wp in the next 2 year in the same footprint.
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Keep in mind there are plenty of houses in the US that run at a net positive electrical production.
Hundreds of thousands. I personally manage about 80,000 100%+ offset assets on peoples houses.
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