Endless Sphere

Hillhater wrote: ↑

Aug 07 2020 9:05am

See this thread about 12-14 months ago
As i recall, the research suggested that anthropogenic CO2 accounted for 16 ppm of the total atmospheric 400+ ppm.

the rest is from magic fairy dust?

You live in some strange world of your own.

Hillhater wrote: ↑

Aug 06 2020 12:06am

There is no proven linkage between the measured increase in atmospheric CO2 and Fossil Fuel use.

See concentration of C14 isotope.

Do the revenues from Carbon taxes enter into a general tax fund or are they earmarked for special uses such as incentives for private investment in the clean energy transition? Hard to predict. Political will seems to be to lower the electricity price and to give money for energyefficiency improvem...

BUT I can IMAGINE a sustainable energy source that could keep them operating 24/7 reliably.... ... but that is not, and never will be, Wind or Solar PV. I can not. In the last 20 years France had been depended on imports from Germany to save them from blackouts. Happened in very hot and dry summers...

The industry in Germany is kept running by 50% of RE. The other is 50% of nuclear and fossil fuels. NO ..it is not. Industry cannot be kept running when at times the available RE supply is less than 5% of the demand. Very obviously it does exactly that. And just in case if you wonder: Average elect...

Nice try Jack, ( terrible grammar tho’) .. but we are not talking about imagination, we are talking about FACTS of what is actually happening currently ....not in 20 years time! 2=3 Gw of wind and Solar does not keep Germany’s industries running. It needs the backup of the Coal, gas , and Nuclear p...

... Example ..from your country..(a shining leader in RE conversion..) There are periods this month when the combined 112 GW of installed Wind and Solar produced less than 6.0GW of the 50 GW demand...and even some periods where that figure was less than 3.0GW ! What do you think supplied the bulk o...

Hillhater wrote: ↑

Jul 30 2020 9:07am

So what is your point ?....

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Hillhater wrote: ↑

Jul 28 2020 7:35pm

....80+% of china’s electricity is actually generated by Coal fired Thermal power plants which have a capacity of over 1100 GW and of course a high CF for continuous supply...

No, they do not produce continous supply at lower than 50% CF.

China and renewable energy generation. There is no doubt China has huge RE power generation capacity, especially hydro (300+ GW), with multiple large dam systems (the 3 Gorges dam alone has more generation capacity than Australias total power generation from all sources !) . Wind and Solar also tog...

And today we have nuclear technology that is safer than any form of fossil fuel energy, and we have had zero deadly accidents with storing spent fuel from commercial plants. Sounds like they delivered. Kyschtym. Sure they will have all this solved within just 4 years from some "startup" with a webs...

.and Forbes are slightly more recent... https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7382/UG6gJk.png https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/02/11/eroi-a-tool-to-predict-the-best-energy-mix/#7e0a09c2a027 This is the source from your graph: https://festkoerper-kernphysik.de/Weissbach_EROI_preprint.pd...

This is a very common blindspot. Home electricity use is only 20-30% of a Northern country's ELECTRICITY use. And electricity is only 20-30% of total primary energy use. Just because your home electricity is self sufficient, you have only reduced your share of energy from the social total by 10%. S...

Round trip Hydrogen economies are very inefficient. Circa 30%. Much better to just use the available electricity when it is there. That whole report makes no mention where or how all of this extra electricity to turn into Hydrogen will be produced. Of course it does mention that. You need to read i...

EU has a new hydrogen strategy:

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/sites/ener/ ... rategy.pdf

So build that cheap prototype within 4 years first and see what it can do. So far they have managed to build a cheap website. That is mostly because you won't let them or anyone else build anything. Build it in Indonesia then. This will not happen, because it's a fraud, a technical and economical p...

Yaeh, typical nuclear fairy tales. Reality is what's out there. "...A full-scale 500 MW ThorCon prototype can be operating under test within four years. After proving the plant safely handles multiple potential failures and problems, commercial power plant production can begin. Visit MSRE..." So bui...

When I last did any research work on nuclear power some studies I read claimed even a 'standardized' series of plants would have trouble breaking even. Has that changed? No. All of them are too expensive. https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/New-Reactor-Concepts.pdf Long version only available in ...

But you can't do that in Florida, where you need massive cooling units, and in the Northern states you need massive heating systems. So solar is something to be used as an add on to the existing power grid. Once the politics get into this, that's where things go off the rails. In many places, you a...

USA, France, UK, Russia, Etc, and several others, all have ability to supply various Nuke technologies Westinghouse is out of the market. Areva survives on state money. (Siemens gave up on nukes, too, as did the Candiens and most of the Japanese companies. What's left is mostly China, Russia and So...

..., so if any generalization from me then it is this one. "Use HP cell only in apps where you need high continuous discharge rate like 3C or more, if your averege is well below 1C with short peaks, which is the case of the most traction apps, then use HE cells". OR if you want to charge your batte...

VTC6 is definitely NMC, I don't think the LG cells are NCA either. There is way to much wrong information around, so it is very difficult to know. Actually VTC-6 is a NCA cell, while HG2 is (seems to be) a 811 NMC cell, both in combination with a C+Si anode, as spectroscopic analysis shows: https:/...

Maybe i should have said, “who needs a car battery that lasts 15+ years”... ? Unless all other components on the car are also going to be reliable for 15+ yrs,...its not a big advantage. That's the cool thing about BEV. Nothing inside that brakes... Of course I woul like a car that last 30 years or...

Battery raw materials of Lithium and Cobalt are stated to have possible reserves in the range of producing just 1.5-2 billion 60kWh battery packs total. Which is 90-150 TWh. Total world annual production is just .26 TWH. Increase this by doubling this manufacturing capacity twice over the next 10 y...

More optimistic thinking... ? ...China permitted more new coal-fired power plants in March than it did in all of 2019. We will see. Difficult to predict. You have to look at net capacity (many cola power plants retire in China) and utilization and efficiency: https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worl...

Check out this all in one fuel-cell home energy station, forget about Elon Musk's crappy 13.5 kWh, this one can store 1.5MegaWh of electricity. That's 1500KWh. It contains a battery, electrolyzer and fuel cell all working together for a self-sufficient and customizable house energy system. It makes...