that's some easier said than done statement there
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Solar energy gathered in space is less likely to be affected by cloud cover and is safe from natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes
You don't say. However I suspect that the chance of being hit by a micrometeorite is significantly higher.
Wouldn't that bring more solar energy to earth and contribute to energy imbalance?
Trivial amounts compared to the solar energy hitting the entire surface of half the Earth.
The problem isn’t incoming energy, it’s outgoing energy. Greenhouse gases reduce the amount of energy radiated back into space and that’s what increases the mean global temperature.
Adding a few hundred square miles of surface area wouldn’t change much.
That's not what they are talking about.
They're talking about instability in the electrical grid. If we could just snap our fingers and have instant fusion power tomorrow we still couldn't actually use it because the demand of electricity wouldn't keep up with the supply.
Yes you can store power in batteries and via other methods but only to a certain point, you can consider that storage to just be demand, but beyond that you start to have issues with grid stability. You have to start inventing ways of wasting that power just to get rid of it. As more energy intensive technologies come online you make less and less use of that mitigating technology. Of course the better thing to do would be simply to keep supply roughly in line with demand, which means we don't invent massive energy generating systems if we don't yet need them.
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