Posted on 05/25/2018 6:47:00 AM PDT by rktman
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there!
Not going to happen, ignore.
Renewable energy is too expensive plus it creates a lot of co2. The storage to go off grid is expensive and inadequate, they need more breakthroughs in tech to make it real.
Some rough facts from a few years back:
One wind turbine takes like 300 tons of steel per MW, 1 nat gas fired cogen plant takes about 3 tons per steel per MW.
Why? Because they are building 20 story towers made of steel to hold up a 3 MW turbine.
How do you make steel - with coal!!!!!!
One pound of electronic component grade silicon for a solar panel, takes two pounds of raw silica cooked down in an oven. Tremendous amt of nat gas used to cook off the impurities.
Plus there are other chemical pollutants from solar panels that contribute to green house gases in large amounts.
Where is nuclear fusion? Lockheed is supposed to be getting there. Cheap power with CO2 dramatically reduced. More likely the answer.
Renewable, organic, carbon neutral whale oil!
You’ll be getting a call from the Sea Shepard soon. ;-)
Isn’t that what the cavemen used?
No thanks.
I'm aware of the concept that the universe has all of the energy it will ever have, and has all of the energy it ever had. I'm not sure I believe that. Regardless of what the math shows and the physicists tell us.
So often Hydroelectricity is a consequence of building a dam for flood control, then making use of the energy of the impounded water. Without existing water control projects, the haters of dams probably wouldn’t have the option of living in their existing communities, either not having a stable source of water, or the benefit of avoiding major floods on a decadal basis.
The Gulf Stream ocean CURRENT contains enough potential energy to power the entire Eastern Seaboard. Everyone who has studied the issue KNOWS IT. That this energy is not developed, is PROOF, of the fallacy of “alternative” energy, AND global warming.
South Eugene Island Block 330 disagrees.
Ask John Galt
Why settle for 100% ?
Let’s for aim for 110.
hydrocarbons are FUEL, the ONLY reason that they are FUEL, is that PLANTS make oxygen, and store FREE OXYGEN in the air. Once, the atmosphere of Earth, was hydrocarbons like methane. There was no burning then.
“Where is nuclear fusion?”
Good question. I need to read up on it.
Nuclear fission isn’t so bad in my opinion.
How did those plants and rotten dinosaur carcasses end up 5,000 or more feet below grade?
“Sorry, that just doesn’t happen. It takes thousands if not millions of years for the hydrocarbons to migrate from the source rock to the trap.”
Sorry, you’re completely wrong, oil/natgas fields are refilling, quickly, it’s a worldwide phenomenon.
Here’s one example:
“Eugene Island is an underwater mountain located about 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1973 oil was struck and off-shore platform Eugene 330 erected. The field began production at 15,000 barrels a day, then gradually fell off, as is normal, to 4,000 barrels a day in 1989. Then came the surprise; it reversed itself and increased production to 13,000 barrels a day. Probable reserves have been increased to 400 million barrels from 60 million. The field appears to be filling from below and the crude coming up today is from a geological age different from the original crude, which leads to the speculation that the world has limitless supplies of petroleum.”
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/03/what_if_oil_and_natural_gas_are_renewable_resources.html#ixzz5GWuE43qF
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[[Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?]]
YES- as soon as i work out a few kinks in my perpetual motion machine
Will they be wanting to save on the Bunker C costs?
Can’t fission Thorium 232 directly in thermal neutron process like Uranium 235, Uranium 233, Americium 241 or Plutonium 239. Can make Uranium 233 from Thorium 232 by adding a neutron in a “breeder” type reactor. No reason to go the breeder reactor route yet though, as 93% of all Uranium 235 ever processed for fuel remains available in the fuel rods.
Decades of fuel from waste is available for molten salt reactors, which can burn up nearly all the fuel of old rod assemblies and fuel waste products to produce energy output.
Chimney liner materials are a close second to stove materials in any attempt to use coal as a fuel, rather than wood.
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