If all of mankind’s energy was supplied through solar panels would the effect be big enough to decrease the temperature (since light is converted in part to electricity)?

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah, on the earth surface 23% of the light gets absorbed by the atmosphere before it even hits the panel, and 85% of the remained doesn’t get absorbed by the panel at all.

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      3 hours ago

      perovskites offer tantalizing appearances of being able to take up more, and appear to be coming soon. few bits of good news but that’s one.

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      3 hours ago

      Most of the sunlight doesnt even hit Earth

      Could you imagine how much more energy we could produce if we used all the empty space in space?