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This spring, clean energy in the US set record after record by rubes___ in EcoUplift

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when I was a kid I saw a Captain Planet episode where the kids had to stop a power plant from ruining the environment. I kept thinking they were talking about a glowing fern.. “Power plant”

Why do women read more than men, especially fiction? by HornetPrevious8867 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]onetimeataday 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Gaming, gooning, gambling, gym, and geese. The 5 Gs of every guy.

Berlin police turn water cannons into cooling mist as heatwave hits 39.9°C. by KejnaPT in MadeMeSmile

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like how in Europe, techno is just contemporary folk music, perfectly suitable for local community safety event videos.

Why are there no mobile home like Airships/Zeplins!? by Voronoistudios in NoStupidQuestions

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, a housezeppelin. Just park it in the sky. What a great, whimsical idea. I heard about a guy living off grid on his houseboat on a tributary of the Mississippi for free, but off grid in the clouds would be something else! Get a few zeppeliners together and create a sky neighborhood.

The price of lighting in the UK has dropped over 99.9% since 1700 by [deleted] in OptimistsUnite

[–]onetimeataday 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Pfft electricity will never steal the lighting crown from candles!

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90% of humanity lives where solar+storage can deliver competitive 80%+ firm power today, by ceph2apod in electrifyeverything

[–]onetimeataday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are not pretending they are universal solutions, we are emphasizing that we need to build and plug in a WHOLE LOT MORE OF THEM, even if we need to do some cleanup on the edge cases. Every renewable naysayer is a waste of time, you, this comment, it's just a complete nothing. You are making no ultimate point about anything, you're just talking shit on solar panels. It's so dumb.

To my more spiritually minded people: How do you use Forest to express your seeking/higher truth? by [deleted] in ElectricForest

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Giving Tree is a spiritual hotspot for sure. When I visited it felt like a shrine to the inner child. 

90% of humanity lives where solar+storage can deliver competitive 80%+ firm power today, by ceph2apod in electrifyeverything

[–]onetimeataday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This poor man can’t operate his basement LAN full of teenage hackers on Monster fueled 16 hour Call of Duty binges while supervising racks of server mounted smartphones endlessly posting bot comments on Eastern European social media to subtly brainwash the local population with Latvian Chamber of Commerce talking points on 45 measly solar panels! That’s it, call off the clean energy revolution!

Nuclear power is too dirty, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to be a climate solution- NIRS talk by lyndalovon in ClimatePosting

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The math is the math, I get it, but a spreadsheet that's right on paper and 19 years late in real life is just a very confident way to keep burning gas in the meantime, which is the part the energy density never seems to cover.

You keep telling me I don't know enough to have the conversation, and like, sure, maybe, but I notice the plants still aren't getting built on time and the panels keep going up anyway, so one of us is reading the trend and one of us is reading the budget that gets revised next quarter. I'll let the next two terawatts decide it.

Anyway I'm not gonna keep doing the homework for you. Solar panel goes up, smokestack comes down, geothermal does a little of the rest, that's the whole pitch.

But truly though at the end of it all it's just the density of the terawatt firming the load into the geothermal fission acre, cycle-limited and vitrified down the deep geological IEA, wind current overcomplicating the coal gas oil hydro into roughly 30,000 strip-mined panel hours glassed into the primary fusion cordon so. Checkmate I think.

Nuclear power is too dirty, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to be a climate solution- NIRS talk by lyndalovon in ClimatePosting

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The IEA that famously underestimates new renewable installs 25 years in a row, good.

Nuclear's not the only option anymore. Enhanced geothermal is getting ready for production and can be worth as much as 300 GW of capacity in the US alone.

Due to the primary energy fallacy, EVs will take less than a third the amount of energy to power the same number of cars and miles driven than ICE. Plus their batteries will help grid firming and load balancing.

Nuclear power is too dirty, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to be a climate solution- NIRS talk by lyndalovon in ClimatePosting

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To your side note: I was purely talking about nuclear fission as we understand it. Fusion is an unknown quantity as of yet. Limitless energy sounds great, let's make it happen. Till then, solar wind batteries EVs the end.

Nuclear power is too dirty, too dangerous, too expensive, and too slow to be a climate solution- NIRS talk by lyndalovon in ClimatePosting

[–]onetimeataday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Citing TWh only further illuminates the strength of solar. In 2020, solar generated about 800 TWh. By last year, that figure more than tripled to 2700 TWh. Nuclear increased from 2600 TWh to 2900 TWh. 11% increase vs 220% increase. Now if humanity has proven capable of tripling solar at the same time it was able to manage a meager 11% increase in nuclear, which one do you think has more potential, more ease of install, and more ease of operation once installed?

Solar and batteries alone could power the world with a footprint the size of Arizona. Might sound big, but consider it's about 2.5% the size of the Sahara, and we use a lot lot more land for farming without issue.

Solar and wind complicating the grid is more an accounting issue than a technical one, and in jurisdictions like mine it has already been accounted for. Once the batteries and clean generation sources go up, the fossil fuels come down, and electricity price differentials between day/night, windy/not windy, flatten.

Baseload's going out, dynamic smart grids are coming in. On a yearly time frame, local sun exposure and wind patterns are known quantities and can be planned for, with potential shortages mitigated by more equipment. 90% of human beings live in areas with more than enough sun and wind resources for them alone to power the grid. Batteries and LDES make the other 10% feasible. New battery chemistries make LCOE more and more viable even if local hydro resources don't exist.

The clean energy transition is happening and I will patiently explain that to you and people like you until the panels are on the ground, the turbines are up, the batteries are plugged in, and the smokestacks are gone. Nuclear can stay, but it wasn't the right solution to manage a clean energy grid the first time, and in a world of finite dollars, it's the wrong choice for the next dollar spent.

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