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Will solar energy cause global warming as it increases in popularity as an energy source?

As the solar panels suck the heat out of the Sun, will that pull more heat to concentrated areas of the earth? I like this to heat rays from a magnifying glass. We are concentrating where some of this energy goes. What happens when energy transfer is concentrated? What strength of force does this eventually lead to were it to grow? At what point would it be harmful to mankind?

Lots of good answers here, but I wish to rake over your misconceptions. All the solar energy that strikes the earth now left the sun 8.3 minutes ago. There is nothing we can do to "suck heat" from the sun. All we do with solar panels is convert some of that tiny fraction of heat that happens to fall on earth into electricity.

Now, a solar panel is usually very dark, so it absorbs more light than does a more reflective surface, like a snow bank. The key is that not all the energy is converted to heat, some of it goes to electricity. And NONE of it adds sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere, unless perhaps you are cutting down forest to Build Solar Panel arrays.

To "magnify" solar energy we might build collectors in space and beam the energy through the atmosphere. Again, we would expect very little heat transfer this way. Any time space based panels occluded sunlight we would actually expect a slight (immeasurably small) reduction in total heat absorbed by the earth. Then again, any work performed by that electricity ends up as heat in the environment. Still, heat is not the real problem. Every night waste heat is radiated back into space. The problem facing us is atmospheric greenhouse gasses that trap extra heat, such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Releasing carbon sequestered since the permian (300 million years ago) into our atmosphere will hurt us MUCH more than using solar power collectors. Solar power is one of the cleanest energy sources. Consider--plants obtain energy via photosynthesis, liberating oxygen. That is solar energy. You eat the plants, or other animals that eat the plants, so you are already using "solar" energy. All energy sources are ultimately solar, except fusion, fission (liberation of energy from some previous star went supernova billions of years ago), and geothermal--essentially the same ultimate source as fission--the gradual decay of long lived isotopes in earth's core and mantle.

One thing that would be fun would be to build big space based solar collectors girdling the sun like a belt. There is sufficient material on mars--silicon and iron--to ring the sun with an array about the diameter of the orbit of Venus and a hundred kilometers wide. Just imagine what we could do with such cheap, abundant energy! And that would be only a tiny fraction of the sun's output.

Advanced civilizations might erect shells around their suns, capturing most of the light. So instead of looking for extraterrestrial civilizations around G type stars (like our sun), we might instead search for stars more like red giants...

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Solar Power in Germany $70.1 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Germany is the worlds top photovoltaics (PV) installer, accounting for almost half of the global solar power market in 2007. The country has a feedin tariff for renewable electricity, which requires utilities to pay customers a guaranteed rate for any solar power they feed into the grid. Germans installed about 1,300 megawatts of new PV capacity in 2007, up from 850 megawatts in 2006, for a cumulative total exceeding 3,830 megawatts. Germany added a further 2 GW in 2008 and 2.5 GW in 2009 taking the total to 8.3 GW by end of 2009. As capacity has risen, installed PV system costs have been cut in half between 1997 and 2007. Solar power now meets about 1 percent of Germanys electricity demand, a share that some market analysts expect could reach 25 percent by 2050. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 2010/07/16 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.24 inches

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