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Would like to see trump's face today! Oil is as cheap as when I worked in it 40+ years ago. Should shut down a few companies, maybe they will move over to sustainable energy.
Never heard a single person sound off about doing away with livestock while they were eating a hamburger.Dauntless said:And if so many had their way, vegan would be 100%. Not just vegans, have you ever noticed how many people sound off about doing away with livestock while they're eating hamburgers, etc.?
JackFlorey said:I am thinking you made that up.
nicobie said:Par for the course.
Why yes it does!Dauntless said:Proves more a lack of thinking. Takes a sort of person to say that.
JackFlorey said:Right after the ACA passed, every republican out there had a story of how they had just been laid off because of the crushing burden placed on their hardworking, struggling employer by Obamacare. Or how their best friend had been laid off. Or their son. (Of course a week later they were complaining about their boss again.) Funny how such things, things that perfectly support the poster's spin on things, always seem to happen at the most convenient time.
Correction. ! ..maybe unrelated to the ITER work....Hillhater said:Yes, the “FirstLight” guy said on the video, that their main business is the ”Inertial Confinement “ technology and production of the “target pellet” and the way it generates the high temperatures for the Fusion reaction.Punx0r said:Hillhater said:They are in your neck of the woods..(Oxford.).. You should pop round and have a chat..put them straight !
By Aussie standards they're practically my neighbours My understanding is their research has been the groundwork for the larger ITER facility in France where there's the actual chance for a sustained reaction/useful power output.
Encouraging work, but obviously a long way to go yet but they are confident it will be fully commercial and producing base load Electricity generation by 2030
Well, except that we are actually doing it.Hillhater said:Quite possibly true....but its the same issue with wind, solar and Hydro !
jonescg said:Pretty sure we can do both. Existing nuclear nations are well placed to do this. Nations who don't already have this complex, expensive industrial ecosystem in place would be better placed exploiting the zero emissions options they already have (batteries, pumped hydro, solar, wind).
Agree with research into LFTR - but they are not quite ready for prime time. I'd put my money on small modular reactors as a short term solution. Order one, have it shipped to your facility, plop it in a hole, connect it up and use it. In ten years when it needs to be refueled - ship it back. The factory replaces the fuel and ships it back to you.CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:Fusion also has had it's funding plundered for years to feed other research topics more likely to return investments- solar PV is one. Personally, I bank on Thorium-based LFTR reactors being our meal ticket, and so does India. HH also brought up cheaper and quicker construction and that's an unspoken point- many of these plants are basically all custom-built with only the rules and laws around them being the standardization.
Might be true. The technology isn't quite there yet but it's getting closer.Funny enough, I had this discussion with a acquaintance of mine at work today- Africa will reap the benefits of the boom in renewables as they directly support microgrids. . .
JackFlorey said:Agree with research into LFTR - but they are not quite ready for prime time. I'd put my money on small modular reactors as a short term solution. Order one, have it shipped to your facility, plop it in a hole, connect it up and use it. In ten years when it needs to be refueled - ship it back. The factory replaces the fuel and ships it back to you.CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:Fusion also has had it's funding plundered for years to feed other research topics more likely to return investments- solar PV is one. Personally, I bank on Thorium-based LFTR reactors being our meal ticket, and so does India. HH also brought up cheaper and quicker construction and that's an unspoken point- many of these plants are basically all custom-built with only the rules and laws around them being the standardization.
Might be true. The technology isn't quite there yet but it's getting closer.Funny enough, I had this discussion with a acquaintance of mine at work today- Africa will reap the benefits of the boom in renewables as they directly support microgrids. . .
I assume you meant 4MW! Yes, that's a good feature - especially if you can use the waste heat. That makes town-sized power plants a possibility.CONSIDERABLE SHOUTING said:Yeah, the pebble beds can do that and it's pretty trick- real efficient too, you can make a plant as small as 4KW if you want.
Off-grid systems are there and are used widely in Africa. But the coordination of all of them into a larger grid (or even a path to expansion to a larger grid) isn't really there yet. That's going to take some high level work that hasn't been done yet.Naw, the microgrids are already there; it's just startup costs.
Sure we are,..... but that does not mean we will be able to build and install enough to replace all the ff power generation by 2050JackFlorey said:Well, except that we are actually doing it.Hillhater said:Quite possibly true....but its the same issue with wind, solar and Hydro !
Agreed. But we can replace 75% of it - and save 3/4 of our natural gas for future needs (and for motor fuel, which is a much more important use of it.) And if in the meantime we can get nuclear up and running in a big way, that would get us to 100% non-fossil sources by 2050.Hillhater said:Sure we are,..... but that does not mean we will be able to build and install enough to replace all the ff power generation by 2050
Hillhater said:Its not that easy.
60-80% of the power needed is continuous, reliable, “Base Load” , which even the most advanced RE powered industrialised countries have realised cannot come from Wind, solar , hydro, or any combination of them with batteries or pumps etc..
You have got to have a source that you can depend on to be available anytime to throw the switch.
Currently that is FF or Nuclear.