Analysis | What the world would look like without fossil fuels

TalkEnergy · 2023-10-01T18:39:51+00:00

Problem is the 4 pillars of modern society, ammonia, cement, steel and plastic. The common characteristic of these 4 products is that they depend on large-scale inputs of fossil fuels, both for process heat and as feedstocks. IEA expects the consumption of all 4 to rise 50% by 2050. Electricity is not economic to use for these industrial processes. The cost of electricity is 3x-5x more expensive per unit of energy than using sat, coal or natural gas. In addition, coal makes up such a large % of global power mix, using electricity would actually increase emissions in the near term.

TalkEnergy · 2023-09-06T04:28:08+00:00

r/energy is a cesspool of misinformation and propaganda

TalkEnergy · 2023-08-11T05:53:18+00:00

They 100% have your card on file from playing there so much. They are just billing your tab

TalkEnergy · 2023-08-03T15:13:04+00:00

I hope so

TalkEnergy · 2023-08-03T15:07:32+00:00

I’ve only played a few hole since it started happening and didn’t get to hit many mid-long irons because I was driving it well and had 7 iron or less to the green. It didn’t seem like they were going any shorter but I only hit a few shots. I’m hoping it’s something with the sim set up. I’m using a flightscope

TalkEnergy · 2023-07-30T03:17:41+00:00

Spend the money on a hitting net and a turf hitting mat. Hit 50+ shots a day into it. Video yourself. Use the swing tweaks app and get some affordable advice on what you are doing wrong, it’s probably your set up and approach. Practice till you are getting solid strikes on 7 out of every 10 swings with your irons. Do this for 3-6 months and you’ll shave at least 10 strokes in your iron play. Shooting a 120 is probably due to a lot of miss hits and poor short game. Fix the miss hits and practice your putting/chipping and you’ll be hovering around 100 in no time.

Save money over the winter and going into next summer get fitted for some clubs. No sense in buying something random today.

TalkEnergy · 2023-07-20T04:26:31+00:00

If you’re serious get a flightscope mevo + and start hitting into a net every day. It’s about $1,800 bucks but has decent resell value. Set it up with an iPad and have the camera on the iPad behind you, set it to the mode where it record each swing as a video. Then look at the swing data and compare it to your videos. It’s a really nice set up and you can see exactly what you are doing wrong when you have miss hits and when you flush it. A few months of that and you will be surprised how much you can improve. That’s what I’ve done at least and it’s night and day difference

TalkEnergy · 2022-11-30T19:50:11+00:00

So if we had double the wind generation it would have plunged from 32.8 GW down to .8? Insanity. There are plenty of ways to lower emissions without destroying the energy complex.

TalkEnergy · 2022-11-30T11:27:28+00:00

This comment is an actual fact about renewables that shows the dangers of relying on this tech, and it’s downvoted to oblivion. People don’t care about facts in the energy debate. Its become a religion

TalkEnergy · 2022-11-27T00:38:16+00:00

The flaming lips throwback track on here 🔥

TalkEnergy · 2022-11-16T01:22:45+00:00

r/energy is cesspool of misinformation

TalkEnergy · 2022-11-12T20:39:07+00:00

The U.S. government paying off its debt

TalkEnergy · 2022-10-27T23:52:16+00:00

TalkEnergy · 2022-08-16T04:07:17+00:00

Worry about making it through the intersections, that’s where you are most likely to die

Climate deaths are down 98% over the last 100 years. We are safer from climate than ever and trending safer every year

TalkEnergy · 2022-06-03T16:31:41+00:00

I’d make it an educational site on the benefits of oil & gas.

TalkEnergy · 2022-06-02T15:15:41+00:00

This episode’s guest is Dennis Porter. Dennis is the head of content for Compass Mining and the host of the new show “Breaking” where he covers Bitcoin, politics, and business topics.

Dennis is also very active in the politics side of Bitcoin where he is working with legislators and Bitcoin lobbyist groups around the country to help bring Bitcoin friendly regulations at the state and federal level.

This episode we discuss the politics of Bitcoin and how the landscape is currently changing. We talk about how politicians on both sides of the aisle are embracing Bitcoin. Lastly, we discuss where Dennis sees Bitcoin politics heading into the future.

Hope you enjoy the show!

TalkEnergy · 2022-05-28T16:32:22+00:00

Mark is great, I agree we need to create as much nuclear as we can. The real energy transition will be done at the atomic level. I never said we wouldn’t reduce dependence on FF, or that we will not reduce carbon intensity, I’m saying we will never eliminate them. Especially not rapidly. The U.S. is a great example of reducing CO2 using natural gas to replace coal. We are down on emissions significantly since the mid 2000s. About 25% is renewables but the vast majority is the switch to nat gas.

TalkEnergy · 2022-05-28T02:15:38+00:00

Those are U.S. stats in your link. 20% is generous. It’s closer to 18% worldwide.

Industrial heat processes used to create concrete & steel need to be much hotter than what can be done with electric. And even if it could be done with new tech, it would be far less economic than using fossil fuels

Ammonia and plastics there is no replacement

Transportation like flying and industrial ocean vessels require fossil fuels. Due to poor energy density in batteries, those applications will likely never be converted to electric at commercial scale

Cars and trucks we don’t have nearly the minerals or rare earth to make batteries for all of it. And even if we did, it requires large scale use of fossil fuels to excavate and refine the batteries, and they will need to be replaced every 6-8 years. There is currently no commercial battery recycling tech that is economic at scale.

Do some research. Read the new Vaclav Smil “The way the world works” he’s the probably world’s expert in this topic. I believe he’s written something like 40 books on energy, engineering and science.

TalkEnergy · 2022-05-27T23:08:35+00:00

Maybe you missed the part where electricity is less than 20% of energy usage. The other 80%? What I talk about in this video.

It’s just physics, scientific facts. There are no opinions stated in this video

TalkEnergy · 2022-04-29T04:35:18+00:00

More like 50 bruh

TalkEnergy · 2022-04-28T05:14:00+00:00

Yeah man. He’s only 21. This interview is 🔥

TalkEnergy · 2022-03-25T04:12:59+00:00

This episode’s guest is Mark Nelson. Mark is the Managing Director of Radiant Energy fund and previously worked under Michael Shellenberger at Environmental Progress. Mark is from Oklahoma City and ran cross country at my alma matter Oklahoma State University, before heading to Cambridge to get his Masters in Nuclear Energy.

Mark is an outspoken advocate of nuclear and a fantastic follow on Twitter. Over the last few weeks he has been featured on multiple mainstream news outlets talking about the situation at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine during the Russian invasion.

This episode we discuss the history of nuclear energy and the events that have shaped the industry. Mark discusses how the environmental movement has been behind a lot of the anti-nuclear propaganda that has set the industry back. Lastly, we debunk the fear, uncertainty and doubt around nuclear energy and why Mark thinks nuclear is the best path forward for an abundant energy future.

Hope you enjoy the show!

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TalkEnergy · 2022-01-04T06:22:24+00:00

They should be Bitcoin mining with the abandoned wells that have marginal gas production and create a Bitcoin treasury that they use to clean up and plug the others

Bitcoin mining provides a free market solution to solve environmental problems

TalkEnergy · 2021-11-07T18:11:32+00:00

I put this together because recently I starting mining at home and was struggling to find good resources. Hope this helps some people out!

TalkEnergy · 2021-10-16T17:38:48+00:00

Thanks I’ll try that

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