Replace all Earth-based solar power with this:
Posted on 10/11/2023 6:13:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Four headlines struck me, over my morning coffee, this week. They are headlines that I think will change forever our understanding of energy sources. From Germany comes “Wide-Scale Bankruptcies in the EU’s Solar Sector Now Seem Likely” and “Germany to Fire up ‘Brown Coal’ Power Plants because of Fears of Energy Shortage.” From Sweden, “Sweden Embraces Nuclear Energy,” and from France, “Nuclear energy now non-negotiable.”
All four headlines are courtesy of the E.U.’s disastrous missteps in solar — and successes in nuclear. The disasters are the result of what I call “the seven dirty secrets of solar.” Germany has led the way down this dark path, with a failed 32-year, quarter-of-a-trillion-dollar experiment, funded by taxpayers, which has left the country ranking among the worst polluters and highest electric bills in Europe, now also burning more brown coal for its grid than ever before, at 40% and climbing, with only 9% contributed by solar. Germany is fast losing its leading role in energy initiatives to the nuclear successes in France (70% nuclear) and Sweden (40% nuclear).
Black Gardens: The Seven Dirty Secrets of Solar “Farms”
Secret number one: The sun is a lazy worker.
This one is hardly a secret. Everyone knows it, and everyone ignores it. The sun is an intermittent, erratic, and untrustworthy worker. It never works the night shift, takes off all rainy days, and doesn’t show up during cloudy seasons. It is “off duty” for more than half the time.
Secret number two: Solar energy never replaces fossil fuels; it sits on top of them.
Behind every solar “farm” sits a silent, poisonous partner: an old-fashioned gas and oil electric factory.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Give me the Internal Combustion Engine, or give me death!
I have a number of small solar panels, wires, batteries and electronic devices to fool around with.
Recent exercises with same have proven to me that I need the Grid and coal, gas, hydro, nuke, etc. power generation.
I could squeak by with solar in emergencies, which is why I bought this stuff.
Solar power: Your fair-weather friend
“Give me the Internal Combustion Engine, or give me death!”
I have an ICE only F150 on order. It may have to last me for my driving lifetime.
If anyone was relying on solar in this area for the past 120 to 150 days they are hating life. We’ve had about thirty days of full sun in the period. Most days have been exceptionally gloomy. The good days start with a nice cloudless sky and by noon the overcast is moving in.
“Give me the Internal Combustion Engine, or give me death!”
Bravo. Give me crude oil or give me nuclear power or both.
Use nuclear units as we use on ships. Small, compact, shorter time frame to get on line. I’m guessing here but they should be sized for a city of 15-20,000. Bigger city? More units.
trouble is FakeNewsMSM is fully on board with the climate scam. heard talk show hosts yesterday try to shut down any suggestion EVs were involved in the following, yet the investigation is just beginning:
12 Oct: Daily Mail: Luton airport chaos ‘will last for DAYS’ after massive inferno caused by exploding Range Rover destroyed £20m multi-storey car park and sparked mass flight cancellations
By TOM PYMAN and MARK DUELL and JAMES FIELDING and RORY TINGLE
As many as 1,500 vehicles are feared to have been damaged after the car park, which has a capacity of 1,900, collapsed...
Investigators believe the blaze was started when a diesel car, thought to be a Range Rover, suffered an electrical fault or leaking fuel line.
***The fire then spread as a number of electric vehicles burst into flames, one firefighter suggested***...
The temperature of the flames soared well over the 600C (1,110F) that would destroy the building’s integrity, and one fire officer said it would have hit six million watts...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12619517/luton-airport-disruption-days-fire-car-park-flights.html
11 Oct: Luton Today: Eerie video shows aftermath of Luton Airport car park blaze
One person has managed to film the destroyed car park close up
by James Lowson
Bedfordshire Fire Service believes as many as 1,500 vehicles may have been affected by the fire, while one firefighter at the scene said: “We can’t get close enough to see. It’s too dangerous, it will probably fall down on you, so they will probably do an insurance job and bring it all down.”...
An investigation to determine the cause of the fire is under way.
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/eerie-video-shows-aftermath-of-luton-airport-car-park-blaze-4368542
Replace all Earth-based solar power with this:
Thorium Reactors
“Thorium reactors are based on the thorium fuel cycle and use thorium 232 as a fertile material. During the fuel burning, thorium 232 transforms into a fissile uranium 233. Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts of fissile material (such as thorium 231), which are insufficient to initiate and sustain the nuclear chain reaction. Therefore, additional fissile material is necessary to initiate the fuel cycle.”
https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power-plant/reactor-types/thorium-reactor/
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Mr. Fusion....
At the end, the author calls for nuclear energy. Fine. We should be green-lighting as many nuclear energy reactors as we can. SMRs are good.
Recognize what is happening: the Chinese, the Russians and the Persian Gulf terrorist nations are hammering us with propaganda against EVERY form of energy. If anyone is sincerely afraid of global warming’s supposedly civilization-threatening effects, what sense does it not make to be promoting nuclear power construction like mad?
They promoted wind energy and solar energy like crazy since the 1960s, because for the entirety of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, solar and wind energy were hypotheticals with no real chance of being implemented. Now that they’re being implemented because the cost has been decreasing in a lineal rate akin to Moore’s law, suddenly these envirowhackos are worried about seabirds? The conservatives who have been okay with pit mines are suddenly afraid of lithium mining??? WTF, people?!
Don’t buy into it. Develop natural gas AND nuclear AND clean coal AND solar AND wind, and keep developing it until its way cheaper to build in the U.S. than in China!
“the Noor III complex combines its solar power tower with a central receiver that super heats molten salts to more than 500°C.
“These molten salts can store heat and allow the plant to produce power at full capacity even during hours of darkness. For this to work, huge quantities of these special salts, which are a mixture of potassium and sodium nitrate, are held in massive steel tanks.”
Solar can be integrated into hydrogen production. That way when solar produces even a drop of electricity it turns water into hydrogen through electrolysis. As those solar cells intermittently produce electricity, hydrogen is stored in underground tanks like one massive battery.
Well, to be honest, with the internal combustion engine, there would be a LOT of death.
It enables people to drive 30, 40, 60 miles or more ONE WAY to get to a job, that enables people to buy food, pay for housing, clothing, and keep the house warm in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Imagine if we all had to go everywhere on horseback still... my 36 mile commute (one way) would take, 3, 4 hours? at best?
And then they’d expect me to work 8 hours there, and then another 3 or 4 hours back? F that.
Update from NYS...
For about two months surrounding December’s winter solstice, the sun barely peeks above the horizon in Alaska. In fact, the northernmost city in America – Utqiaġvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow – has near-constant darkness from mid- to late November until late January because the sun never rises during that 60-plus-day period.
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