This is a 35 minute YouTube video on nuclear fusion. It’s a narration but the graphics don’t match up with the narration. I give it a grade of C minus.
Quote “”The ITER reactor is designed generate to 500 Megawatts of fusion power for at least 400 seconds, achieving a ten-fold gain in plasma heating power.””
“”With an estimated cost of around 20 billion dollars… is set for completion by 2025…”” Notice the two weasel words: estimated and around.
The problem is that they have been trying to get nuclear fusion experiments to produce more power than they consume, but they have not been successful, and this has been going on for a half century or more, with an incredibly large amount of money having been spent. This has been the ultimate demonstration of the definition of insanity – they keep repeating the same things again and again, expecting different results. Meanwhile the solar photovoltaic industry has dropped the costs of solar panels to where anyone can get a rooftop solar system installed and get electric power generated by thermonuclear fusion, from the sun.
Wow! I have a few, they’re not intuitively easy, they’re so complex that most people would give up after a few minutes. But it’s nice to know that there are wizards out there.
The modules use both the RCWL-9616 and the BISS-0001 but it seems the schematics are all labeled BISS-0001. The parts values are different. He gives some good information about them. They operate at 3.5 and 3.98 GHz – the ones I have were advertised at 5 GHz. Also he shows his own version that uses a dual opamp.
Quote: “”The global wind industry installed 117 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy – here’s what happened and where.””
I’m flabbergasted that so many people don’t get these facts.
There are many segments of industry that are heavily dependent on a supply of hydrogen – a couple large segments are plastics and fertilizer. This industrial hydrogen segment is huge and is a major contributor of greenhouse gases.
Hundreds of millions of people depend on food that can’t be grown without fertilizer. We also are dependent on plastics for a large segment of our lives – it’s all around us.
The hydrogen being used in industry is mostly gray or brown hydrogen, made from fossil fuels such as methane AKA natural gas.
The world *must* decarbonize this hydrogen and end the release of CO2 caused by the manufacture of gray or brown hydrogen.
A great solution is to make green hydrogen by electrolyzing water with green electricity from renewables such as wind and solar.
In order to have enough electric power for 24/7 supply, there needs to be 3 to 6 times the nameplate capacity of renewables, plus energy storage to time shift the electric power from daytime to nighttime. There also needs to be seasonal energy storage – excess energy in summer needs to be stored for use in winter.
Studies show that the amount of Battery lenergy storage to accomplish the above would have to be exceedingly expensive. Therefore experts have proposed using green hydrogen stored in underground caverns just as a large amount of methane is now stored underground.
The article talked about Germany going to green hydrogen. But they’re not the only country. The US has a similar plan, link below.
Dave (JHAT) and others have expressed strong opposition to this green hydrogen future, and I would like to see an explanation why. The whole world *must* decarbonize the huge amounts of gray and brown hydrogen already being used by industry. These opposers cannot just turn their backs on this huge CO2 producing industry – it’s not going away!! It must be confronted and dealt with if we are going to end our production of greenhouse gases and stop global warming.
I’m flabbergasted that so many people don’t get these facts.
There are many segments of industry that are heavily dependent on a supply of hydrogen – a couple large segments are plastics and fertilizer. This industrial hydrogen segment is huge and is a major contributor of greenhouse gases.
Hundreds of millions of people depend on food that can’t be grown without fertilizer. We also are dependent on plastics for a large segment of our lives – it’s all around us.
The hydrogen being used in industry is mostly gray or brown hydrogen, made from fossil fuels such as methane AKA natural gas.
The world *must* decarbonize this hydrogen and end the release of CO2 caused by the manufacture of gray or brown hydrogen.
A great solution is to make green hydrogen by electrolyzing water with green electricity from renewables such as wind and solar.
In order to have enough electric power for 24/7 supply, there needs to be 3 to 6 times the nameplate capacity of renewables, plus energy storage to time shift the electric power from daytime to nighttime. There also needs to be seasonal energy storage – excess energy in summer needs to be stored for use in winter.
Studies show that the amount of Battery lenergy storage to accomplish the above would have to be exceedingly expensive. Therefore experts have proposed using green hydrogen stored in underground caverns just as a large amount of methane is now stored underground.
The article talked about Germany going to green hydrogen. But they’re not the only country. The US has a similar plan, link below.
Dave (JHAT) and others have expressed strong opposition to this green hydrogen future, and I would like to see an explanation why. The whole world *must* decarbonize the huge amounts of gray and brown hydrogen already being used by industry. These opposers cannot just turn their backs on this huge CO2 producing industry – it’s not going away!! It must be confronted and dealt with if we are going to end our production of greenhouse gases and stop global warming.
