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To: Eric who wrote (1435316)	1/25/2024 2:45:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576377

Eric, Long term....It's not going to be pretty. We don't even need to worry about the long term. Our energy policy is already FUBAR thanks to policy makers who want to put the cart before the horse. I'll stick with photon conversion and storage. Personally I think wind turbines on a massive scale makes more sense than trying to capture solar radiation. No matter what you say, there just isn't enough energy to capture per square meter of sunlight. *Scalability* becomes a major concern. Wind, on the other hand, scales much better, especially with massive turbines that can reach heights where the wind blows more reliably. We already have the mechanical engineering know-how to deal with air currents (think aviation), so we can use traditional engineering to convert kinetic energy from the atmosphere into electrical energy. That just isn't going to happen with photovoltaic cells. They can only convert maybe 20% of sunlight into electricity. Only in a carefully controlled lab environment can the efficiency increase significantly. Tenchusatsu