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81. Why Bother Searching for Aliens?

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Solar Ge Engineering - Will It Lower Solar Energy Capture?

Solar geo engineering will make solar panels less effective, but only one per cent. This decrease in sunlight will increase the cost of getting electricity out of solar panels by about 1%. But just to put into perspective, over the last decade, the cost of solar energy has fallen by a factor of four, by 400 %. So we're really talking trivial differences around the edges.

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