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We cant even harness the energy from the sun. That is the most obvious place.

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Well that is what solar energy is for but the efficiency just isn't good enough. I think the energy it produces though is enough to cover all the energy we need in the world though.

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By about 10K times on a daily basis. If we could even harness one percent of the energy that hits the Earth each day from the sun, we would be powering everything we could dream of.

Sadly, you are right. Due to the conversion, even most of what hits the solar panels is lost.

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Yeah the efficiency is a big issue right now. Solar is also expensive and if you decide to go the panel path there is also a future issue that is the disposal of obsolete panels. Those suckers are not easy to recycle

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Yea but the issue is that people always talk about the benefits of solar but not about the recycling issue. I find that a lot of people will find it as rude awakening.

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Yea.. they will probably only turn to this issue when it's already too big.

It's possible that the recycling processes evolve and become cheaper but that's not very likely in my opinion because not many companies invest in that. I think a more likely scenario is that we get better panels and, in parallel, slowly start shifting to other solar technologies.

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