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way2lazy2care t1_j4vnvkc wrote

Reply to comment by danielravennest in Scientists Have Developed a Living “Bio-Solar Cell” That Runs on Photosynthesis by everlovingkindness

This is just a study to see if this effect happened at all, but I think the long term benefit of using plants would be that they can construct themselves. Very little manufacturing involved.

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AdagioAffectionate66 t1_j4x412j wrote

Only if there’s money to be made! Otherwise……

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CirenOtter t1_j4xwsrx wrote

Eventually even the capitalists will figure out that a living planet is more profitable long term than a dead planet… right? Right?!

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jtwFlosper t1_j4ygt1v wrote

I fear you are underestimating the effect that wealth has at generating narcissism, and the effect narcissism has at distorting perception

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Looluee t1_j4zemz8 wrote

Don't put the blame on your everyday capitalist lmao.

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danielravennest t1_j4vp8fq wrote

Plants should be used to grow things they are good at, like lumber and food. There are plenty of rooftops and parking lots that can do solar without using any more land, and agrisolar can share land with plants. Trying to make electricity at low efficiency with plants is a waste of space that can be put to better uses.

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Hours-of-Gameplay t1_j4vzb8y wrote

Yea plants taking up space and also providing oxygen, gross

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crazicus t1_j4wf8hs wrote

Monoculture crops for production at scale are far less effective at producing oxygen or sequestering carbon dioxide than native habitats.

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Nearatree t1_j4y7of3 wrote

Ahnd they dun sucked up all my water so I can't make nesquik

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Shilo788 t1_j4w4tk0 wrote

Very narrow minded. Plants have much more to offer.

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danielravennest t1_j4w14f2 wrote

You've watched The Matrix too many times. Using humans as batteries is an energy-losing proposition.

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way2lazy2care t1_j4w5twk wrote

It's only a waste of space if you can meaningfully use that space. In the article they were using succulents, so in theory you could just plop a handful of these in the desert and wait for them to spread. If you're already installing solar at manufacturing capacity, there's no downside to also having solar that can manufacture itself in situ with no labor also.

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way2lazy2care t1_j4wzckp wrote

> Plants, on a large scale and reasonable times, generally can't construct themselves

Compared to manufacturing PV panels they do. Like the scale isn't even comparable. A handful of people can farm a couple thousand acres, where an equivalent solar farm would be on the scale of the largest solar farms in the world. The power output wouldn't be similar, but in terms of effort involved in covering a large area with power generation, the speed you could grow plants is like orders of magnitude in difference. Not to mention that individual plants can provide thousands of seeds which you could then use to propogate thousands more acres.

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