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On Electricity (Generation)

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-tomorrow dept.

Engineer-Poet wrote a piece a few months back that focuses on electricity production; or rather how or what we will need to do to keep pace with people's demands while balancing that with environmental and economic impact. Lengthy but well-reasoned and good reading.

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  1. Blogs suck. by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blogs suck. Especially this one. "Engineer Poet"? What, because you're both smart and creative? (Sound of ralphing on shoes.)

    As for the content, I noticed one of the responders asked "what about nuclear" and EP said "see the 'Other Issues' section". Of course, there's no "Other Issues" section in his blog. It looks like this PR mouthpiece forgot how blogs work...you can't just refer to phantom documents unless you're doing a live shot for local TV; on the web people will try to look your sources.

  2. Re:End carbon emissions in 30 years (how to) by jlcooke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    bzzzt wrong.

    Flooding land around a dam releases 1,000,000's of tonnes of CO2 in biomass decay. It takes 20 years for it to stop rotting. The Hoover dam is the only exception, it was in a desert.

    Solution (I say again) is industrial alge farms. Best photocells ever made. And they produce 50% oil by mass. Burns in a Diesel-type engine. Produces power, torque, and can be used from home heating oil. All they need is CO2, sun, (salt-)water, dirt and shit. But people don't listen to good ideas like that/