Elon Musk talks about the power of sunlight and the size of a solar array that could power the US. He said that nuclear power plants have an exclusion zone of a square kilometer. If that was covered in solar panels, the solar array could put out more power than the nuclear power plant. He
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This 10 min. YouTube video is about wave powered generators. But later they interview Inna Braverman who said she was born in Ukraine a few days before Chernobyl exploded and she almost died, but her mother resuscitated her. I hear the apologists for nuclear power constantly reiterate the claim that nuclear power is safe and
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This is not good. More electricity than a city. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/27/bitcoin-mining-electricity-use-environmental-impact
It will cost $14 trillion to fully decarbonize the grid. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/the-grid-needs-14t-to-support-full-decarbonization/
Levelized cost of wind and solar dropping below gas and conventional by 2026. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/eia-levelized-cost-of-onshore-wind-solar-pv-dropping-below-gas-fired-and-conventional-generation-by-2026/
From Gates p.154 << How much money can a heat pump save you? Here are a few examples of the savings on new construction in cities around the US. [Chart of four US cities, with an average saving of 22%] You won’t save as much if you’re retro fitting and existing home, but switching to
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@fact not fiction It’s fundamentally unfair to claim that more people die of air pollution (in a given time) from coal power plants than have died in all nuclear accidents. The *direct* deaths of nuclear power are being compared to the *indirect* deaths caused by air pollution. What must be compared is the direct deaths
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This project will use electricity from wind to generate hydrogen which will be combined with CO2 to make synthetic fuels for German company Porsche. https://www.energypartnership.cl/home/milestones/haruoniptx-fundingbmwi/
From my FB reply to many negative comments by this hypercritic. Ned Goldston *No* EV owner needs to have a solar panel system to charge their EV with green electricity. In California there are no coal power plants and the natural gas plants are being replaced with peak shaving utility scale batteries. At times of
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This guy lives on an island in Nicaragua and gathers plastic waste on the beach. He puts the plastic into a metal tank that is sealed, and builds a fire under it. The plastic pyrolyzes and the fumes are piped through a few condensers where the liquids are drawn off. Some liquids are like diesel
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