WARNING...Solar Panels drain the sun's energy! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ampdoctor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2014, 11:37:52 pm
content: I can't believe what I just read here. I actually LOL'd right out loud. What's really funny, or possibly really disturbing, is that I think a few people believe this is a legit story. These people really need to be removed from the gene pool as quickly as possible.http://nationalreport.net/solar-panels-drain-suns-energy-experts-say/with quotes such assolar panels not only convert the sun’s energy into usable energy, but that they are also draining the sun of its own energy, possibly with catastrophic consequences far worse than global warming.and the real winner is...Solar panels destroying the sun could potentially be the worst man-made climate disaster in the history of the world

author: Tinkerer
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timestamp: May 23, 2014, 11:43:20 pm
content: Whats disturbing is that you believe this to be a real news site.

author: Unknown
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timestamp: May 23, 2014, 11:45:43 pm
content: Ah, the National Report - for people who find The Onion and Landover Baptist too subtle...

author: ampdoctor
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2014, 11:51:21 pm
content: Quote from: Tinkerer on May 23, 2014, 11:43:20 pmWait...what...you mean...it's not true?!Read the comments section. They're hysterical.

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2014, 11:55:00 pm
content: Quote from: ampdoctor on May 23, 2014, 11:51:21 pmAnd after rereading the original post, I can see I need to slow down and read better haha.

author: FrankenPC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 12:24:32 am
content: Quote from: ampdoctor on May 23, 2014, 11:51:21 pmThe comments really make the site what it is. It's nearly impossible to tell the sarcastic trolls from the clinically brain dead.

author: EEVblog
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timestamp: May 24, 2014, 10:48:34 am
content: The list of tech articles is hilarioushttp://nationalreport.net/category/sciencetech/

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 11:09:47 am
content: You wonder why there's any point to having a brain ? ... the most mis-used organ ever ... I hope the end is peaceful :-)

author: ciccio
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timestamp: May 24, 2014, 11:44:59 am
content: My grandmother used to say: "Beware, the mother of idiots is always pregnant"Best regards

author: electronics man
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 12:20:21 pm
content: this has got to be the funniest thing I have ever read

author: electrophiliate
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 12:32:03 pm
content: Love the first sentence of the disclaimer:"DISCLAIMER: The views expressed by writers on this site are theirs alone and are not reflective of the fine journalistic and editorial integrity of National Report. Advice given is NOT to be construed as professional. If you are in need of professional help, please consult a professional. National Report is not intended for children under the age of 18."

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 12:37:11 pm
content: That article is proof for me that solar panels are essentially black holes. I'd avoid approaching them too close when you're bicycling.

author: nixxon
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 12:58:27 pm
content: They have even found the missing flight, MH370. But are worried about huge scorpions.http://nationalreport.net/benghazi-malaysian-airline-missing-flight-giant-scorpion/Enclosed is a map with the probable flight path, according to National Report.It is "...based on analysis of high-tech data supplied by many nations..."

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 01:07:55 pm
content: Who's a bigger fool? people who wrote the article or people who believe in the article.

author: electr_peter
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 01:09:07 pm
content: That article forgot to mention that the Earth is basically the biggest solar panel (photo synthesis, vegetation, oil, winds, evaporation, ...) available to mankind for thousands of years (billions without a mankind) and yet sun is still doing fine.Anyway, there are a "niche" for such "credible scientific" sites in every country (mostly in bigger countries like USA, Russia, China). These sites provides few major functions:provide some "entertainment" and dumb down part of populationinduce unnecessary fear in general population for various topicsact as perfect propaganda platform to accomplish various polical and economic goals (mainly disinform on scientific, political and historic topics)There is little to gain by confronting such type of media sources. Better education is the way to go.

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 01:42:40 pm
content: "WARNING...Solar Panels drain the sun's energy!"it all makes senseit's like a transformer, the primary is the sun, there's no current until the secondary, a solar panel, is connected, then you're draining power from the sun

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 02:00:10 pm
content: A proportion of light from the sun gets reflected back to it so more absorbent surfaces do drain the sun's energy.Wearing a tin foil hat while outdoors should be enough to compensate for your home PV installation on top of its other benefits.Another problem is that harvesting tidal energy drains kinetic energy from the earth, we are slowing down its rotation and speeding up the moon.

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 04:51:03 pm
content: I once had a professor that thought geothermal energy would never be practical on a large scale because we would end up cooling the earth's core. As it turns out, if we extracted the total worlds energy use from the core, we would have more pressing matters by the time we used up much of the energy - such as the sun having burned out several billion years earlier.

author: FrankenPC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 24, 2014, 04:58:56 pm
content: The only rational solution is to meditate on the true power of the universe and release our inner light to power the sun.

author: magetoo
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timestamp: May 25, 2014, 02:24:27 am
content: Quote from: electr_peter on May 24, 2014, 01:09:07 pmThe difference is that plants and the sun have co-evolved in a symbiotic relationship over millions of years. Adding man-made solar panels now upsets the delicate energy balance and is going to have unforeseen consequences.I will say that tapping into this pristine source of energy really makes my classical music collection sound clearer and more even though (if that makes any sense), presumably this is due to the smooth statistical distribution of the electron energy levels we have access to.Enjoy it while it lasts...

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 03:30:14 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 24, 2014, 10:48:34 amNow we know what happened to all the reporters for "The Weekly World News". I wonder how bat boy is doing?

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 07:44:54 am
content: This article suggests the human race should be rebooted. Too many Greenies and not enough engineers.

author: electrolux
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 10:44:00 am
content: Seen this commentAre you kidding me? Even if this WERE even remotely true, how much energy do we get from the sun as a fraction of the energy put out by the sun every second??? Consider that the Earth is just but a speck on a landscape that is enormous (more like a blade of grass on a football field). How much of the sun’s output do we really receive?? A miniscule amount at best. This article is probably the dumbest thing I have ever read. The fact is, this is just impossible. Don’t believe a word.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 11:08:22 am
content: Quote from: electrolux on May 25, 2014, 10:44:00 amKidding? Yes.Several posts have already pointed out that the content on the site being discussed is intended to be humorous.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 11:11:30 am
content: QuoteFairly easy to calculate, given our distance to the sun and diameter of the earth.QuoteYeah. But the earlier poster's point is that however minuscule it is, it is not zero. Thus it has an effect.QuoteI think you have shown that it is possible. Just that the effect is so small that it is not worth considering it.

author: han
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 11:19:34 am
content: for who doesn't believe Solar Panels drain the sun's energy here the proof:for same effect you can detect how many receiver tune to your transmitter by calculate energy that transmitted trough the transmitter antenna, since they all act like transformer..

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 10:11:57 pm
content: Quote from: magetoo on May 25, 2014, 02:24:27 amYou know...if you mention this to the audiophools....

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 25, 2014, 10:22:07 pm
content: Quote from: Tinkerer on May 25, 2014, 10:11:57 pmYou wouldn't want to to have your perfect musical experience ruined by spiky horrible dirtygridelectricity, would you? Who knows where those electrons have been? Did you know that the electrical gridchanges frequency during the day?Yes, there could be an opportunity here. :-)

author: Mr Smiley
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2014, 05:06:49 pm
content: That's why it goes dark in the evenings.All the solar panels have drained the suns power.It takes the sun several hours, till dawn, to build up it's energy reserves.surely it can't keep doing this on a daily basis foreverWere all Doooooooomed

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 26, 2014, 05:22:54 pm
content: QuoteQuoteYeah, fun fact, you cannot really make over 6000K with parabolic mirrors, because that is the temperature of the sun (outer layer). If the thing you heat up would have higher temperature than 6000 than the mirror would send more energy to the sun then recieve, thus it would cool down.mod> forum engine derp

author: deth502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 12:49:19 am
content: if this is not true, then how would you explain alaska??alaska is one of the leading users of solar energy in the united states, and they are already seeing the consequences of their actions. it is dark for 6 months out of the year in alaska. it wont be long until they are completely out of sunlight.

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 27, 2014, 12:55:46 am
content: The lessons learned here is that you shouldn't be absolute or black-and-white.The world is highly complex and intertwined. Scientific theories and models simplify that reality so that you could focus on things you want to study. Because of that, theories and models are always wrong; Otherwise, they wouldn't be useful.In this particular case, it is clear that the effect isn't material enough to justify any worry. But it is wrong to say that there is no scientific basis for the original statement.