Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds(www.ecoportal.net)
17 pointsby rbanffy8 hours ago3 comments
  • happymellon8 hours ago
    The Science article they reference that has far more information than this blog piece.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-solar-farms-...

  • verall7 hours ago
    flagged because I think this link needs to be resubmitted with the science.org article. It's like an AI summary where the AI is markov chains.
  • comrade12347 hours ago
    God this was a terrible article. You have to get to the third-to-last paragraph to understand what is happening. I skimmed the article scrolling and saying to myself "are tha panels lowering the ambient temperature?" And yes that sounds like what's happening even though I'm still not sure after getting to the end of the article.
    • wyldfire7 hours ago
      It makes a lot of sense to me that PV and wind power could have subtle undesirable effects that we don't know about until it scales up.

      Taking gigawatts of energy out of the planet ecology and redirecting it to something else seems like it could have drawbacks. Of course, on net it seems likely to still be a significant improvement over burning hydrocarbons.

      • gorpy73 hours ago
        “…good enough” and why is it that we can’t be a part of the planet’s ecology? it must have happened when we exceeded the beaver and ascended. there’s a cake joke in this somewhere but i’d rather just suggest it than wait for the joke to come to me.
      • senectus13 hours ago
        this is what concerns me about geothermal and hydrogen production... the latter more so because clean water is a scares resource as it is.

        But It would not surprise me at all if sucking some of the heat out of the earth would have some undesirable effects.