Only 80 years of uranium left at the current rate of use. Everything you suggest is wildly expensive requiring exponentially increasing subsidies for nuclear.
Since uranium runs out, the subsidies for nuclear never tend to zero the way the do for solar which can produce energy without bound long after subsidies end. With the nuclear waste problem, subsidies for nuclear likely increase without bound. You've misunderstood the situation.
Amory Lovins worked out the current cost situation a while back in his book "Reinventing Fire." According to him, fuel cell vehicles will also reach parity in a few more years, so there is the other 10% covered.
There has been a long string of record monthly anomalies, but July is the warmest month globally so only it and August have much of a chance to be the hottest month.
no. Not even CLOSE. The reason is that if a volcano blows, then we are blocked for weeks or months. And if it is yellowstone, it is for YEARS.
THe smart society plans for LONG TERM ISSUES. It is because we used to do that, that we had the electrical grids, telephones, railroads, tugs, airports, and even highways put in all around America. It is also why America at one time developed the vast majority of this AE. Nearly ALL OF THIS happened in America. The issue has become that over the last 30 years, we have gone backwards due to the GOP/neo-cons/tea*. BUT that is a different issue.
Regardless, the smart society PLANS for seucrity issues.
I don't see a lot of volcano planning in your examples.
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Only 80 years of uranium left at the current rate of use. Everything you suggest is wildly expensive requiring exponentially increasing subsidies for nuclear.
Sounds like the worry is that solar is getting too cheap.
So, how many more mistakes before there is a release into the environment?
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Since uranium runs out, the subsidies for nuclear never tend to zero the way the do for solar which can produce energy without bound long after subsidies end. With the nuclear waste problem, subsidies for nuclear likely increase without bound. You've misunderstood the situation.
Those things add up, look at fig. 7, all (global) warming is erased temporary in their model.
A recent paper predicts global cooling starting as soon as 2040 from the rapid melting of ice sheets. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net...
https://slashdot.org/journal/2...
The Model S won't engage the wheels while plugged in.
Which is why I qualified it. I expect tesla has made some but does not yet know which ones.
Amory Lovins worked out the current cost situation a while back in his book "Reinventing Fire." According to him, fuel cell vehicles will also reach parity in a few more years, so there is the other 10% covered.
There has been a long string of record monthly anomalies, but July is the warmest month globally so only it and August have much of a chance to be the hottest month.
Strange, TFA is about what is happening in labs.
My coop goes in for AC control to handle that. They seem to control it wirelessly. I expect water heaters will play a role soon as well.
Whoosh.
Well, two year old breakthroughs notwithstanding https://www.ornl.gov/content/h...
no. Not even CLOSE. The reason is that if a volcano blows, then we are blocked for weeks or months. And if it is yellowstone, it is for YEARS. THe smart society plans for LONG TERM ISSUES. It is because we used to do that, that we had the electrical grids, telephones, railroads, tugs, airports, and even highways put in all around America. It is also why America at one time developed the vast majority of this AE. Nearly ALL OF THIS happened in America. The issue has become that over the last 30 years, we have gone backwards due to the GOP/neo-cons/tea*. BUT that is a different issue. Regardless, the smart society PLANS for seucrity issues.
I don't see a lot of volcano planning in your examples.
Champlain Hudson Power Express has got support. Maybe your examples are from poorly planned projects.
Not sure what you mean by this. V2G is interesting for stability but used batteries are the sort of thing you'd use to store solar or wind for later.
These batteries tend to report on their own health.
You forgot that batteries are reused. Consider a 10,000 cycle battery.
But that breakthrough delivered. Now there is a gigafactory.
Subsidies? That's what the nuclear industry is getting. This just makes electricity cheaper.
Strikes me that stationary use is a more stable condition than mobile use. Probably pretty manageable.
But only a little may cover the situations that worry you and used EV batteries may provide all that is needed.