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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 00:57:23 2021 No.13932949 View Reply Original Report

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How much would it cost to buy enough 12-light-hour-long fiber optic cables to keep a solar panel running for 24hrs in one location by?
vs
How much would it cost to place a solar panel at your antipode and wire it for 24hr solar power in your home?

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 10:11:42 No.13934029 Report

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$9000 per mile
$5592.34 per km

speed of light = 299 792 458m/s

12 hours = 43200 seconds

43200 * 299 792 458 * 5592.34 = 7.2 * 10^16

72,000 trillion dollars

you're also retarded

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 10:15:44 No.13934042 Report

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NASA has that kind of money available

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Anonymous Tue 07 Dec 2021 10:57:03 No.13934198 Report

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>12-light-hour-long fiber optic cable
Not a single photon would make it from one end of the cable to the other. The light would be attenuated by a factor of $10^{647551709}$

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