solarpunk memes

Don't worry. In 500 million years we won't get total solar eclipses anymore, so it's all good.

Make the Sun Great Again! The moon is a lefty loser!

We've reached peak sun! It's all gone!!

Wind energy? Hydro energy? Nuclear energy? There's like more ways to get energy.

I also don't know if this guy is pointing out that the sun gives us so much energy, so we should use it more or that the sun could be covered sometimes rendering it useless.

the only solution is that we blow up the moon

Flip the script around, and what this tells us is that within the very narrow path of totality, 30 gigawatts of solar power is produced within minutes. That's a decent amount of power, very quickly, for basically free. Plus all the other solar power still being produced outside the area in totality.

Gets even more ridiculous when you factor in all the solar power that will be produced within just that same path by time the next eclipse hits us in 20 years. If a couple minutes of losing sunlight is 30 gigawatts, 20 years of having sunlight is multiple millions of gigawatts produced. I think we can just scrape the lost 30 off the top of those millions and call it good.

I missed out on about 5kwh. Guess I'll start pulling the panels off the roof now.

Please let this be sarcasm.

That's okay, I only need 1.21 gigawatts to fix the country.

A guy who just spews nonsense for a paycheck.

This would be a great talking point in a world where we didn't invent ways to store power, and that night wasn't a thing.

Unfortunately he lives in this one where gets to look like an idiot.

The sun will consume the Earth in 5 billion years! WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN?????

Wait until this moron finds out how many GiGaWaTts we will lose after sunset

What a Gigatwat

Another way to look at this: The solar infrastructure that is affected by the eclipse alone can generate roughly 30 GW

Meaning solar energy produces 30 gigawats per 2 minutes?

Not bad, should build even more.

I remember at the Ellen’s Energy adventure ride at Epcot they had Bill Nye discuss types of energy. When they get to solar Bill Nye goes, “The sun doesn’t shine all day and weather can make it go down” then cutting to footage of a lone oil rig behind a sunset followed by triumphant music.

But think how much productivity was lost due to all the workers stopping to watch the eclipse! That easily set us back ten years.

Yes, Daniel, a few minutes of eclipse happening every couple years renders solar completely useless. Let's just keep burning the dead dinosaur juice.