Solar you can store some of the excess heat but liquid salt is awful short term. Solar panels + batteries help smooth it out but they have the exact same issues as coal extraction.
Could you expand a bit on these two things? Why are molten salt pits "short term"? And why do you see solar + batteries as having the same issues as coal?
Water you have to deal with the eco/economic problem of sucking up millions of gallons of water and putting it somewhere else.
Aren't you just going to put this water in a storage facility? What's so hard about that? Pumped water for energy storage has about an 80% efficiency. This doesn't seem like a problem.
Great to hear about what those other countries are trying to do. I wish them the best. But solar most definitely can supply all of our energy needs. Every form of energy we have goes back to solar. The amount of sunlight that hits the earth is many times over what we'd need. It's just a matter of bringing down the cost some more.
It also take a lot of upfront cash. So as nice as it would be to have more nuclear energy; the window of opportunity is gone. Renewable energy sources will be far cheaper by the time a new nuclear plant opens
Bullshit or no bullshit; that's the way it is. You wanna change it? You think you can do that, and have a plant built, before other renewable sources are cheaper than this potential nuclear plant? We've got to play the cards we're dealt
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/03/1529651/new-mexico-utility-agrees-to-purchase-solar-power-at-a-lower-price-than-coal/ In some places solar plants are thriving and already are the cheapest form of energy
If you're looking to invest more than $50 on LED light bulbs then today's solar is very cheap these days. Here is a retailer that sells some residential panels for only 0.79 per watt. Solar will only continue from here to become even cheaper
Attempting to Build a nuclear plant has large upfront costs, takes 20 years, and often results in a half-way cancelled project. By the time a plant could be built, and become operational, other forms of energy such as solar will have since grown cheaper than the cost electricity from the new nuclear plant
Horses are much smarter than cows, and respond much more favorably to human direction. Though cows also poop when faced with anything stressful. The thing is that cows get stressed out by pretty much anything else that isn't another cow. Hence they just crap everywhere.
Cows aren't really that smart or independent. A cow will not go off on its own to take a crap. Nor will it be smart enough to realize why it is getting food.
Most likely you'll just have cows accidentally get a treat, the other cows will see this, become jealous, and then crowd the reward bowl until they break it.
Nuclear plants take 20 to 25 years to build. Even if a nuclear project starts today, its cost will be much more expensive than solar energy by the time it can open.
There's a thing called reputation. If the reputation of these prediction markets is that they are manipulated then no on will trust them.
If a news outlet takes information from these manipulated markets, knowing they are manipulated, then that network was really just arbitrarily picking up pieces of data that appear to support whichever political party that station is allied to. They would have found anything that works to support their dialog.
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Build the solar facilities closer maybe? It isn't set in stone that these are the only places facilities can be built
Well you just change the entire US regulatory system for nuclear plants, and we can start making nuclear plants like China
You have fun trying to get that one through the congress and senate
The 80% figure I cited was for pumped water. Sorry, I should have been more specific.
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/media/radio/santiago-arias-technical-director-gemasolar-supplying-24-hour-solar-power-121117
Looking at this interview about molten salt from the company Gemasola it looks like the technolgy has come quite a ways.
"....This winter we have already achieved 404MWh in 24 hrs.... In summertime then we reached 428MWh in a single day...."
There doesn't seem to significant degradation due to Winter conditions
Solar you can store some of the excess heat but liquid salt is awful short term. Solar panels + batteries help smooth it out but they have the exact same issues as coal extraction.
Could you expand a bit on these two things? Why are molten salt pits "short term"? And why do you see solar + batteries as having the same issues as coal?
Water you have to deal with the eco/economic problem of sucking up millions of gallons of water and putting it somewhere else.
Aren't you just going to put this water in a storage facility? What's so hard about that? Pumped water for energy storage has about an 80% efficiency. This doesn't seem like a problem.
I suppose that depends on what exactly you consider a "patch"
http://landartgenerator.org/blagi/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/AreaRequired1000.jpg
Energy can be stored, and is, in pumped water and molten salt.
.00001 cents per kWH being stored at 80% efficiency would be a pretty damn big deal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage . So I'd say solar at
Great to hear about what those other countries are trying to do. I wish them the best. But solar most definitely can supply all of our energy needs. Every form of energy we have goes back to solar. The amount of sunlight that hits the earth is many times over what we'd need. It's just a matter of bringing down the cost some more.
Multiple solar facilities already produce enough energy to provide energy at 9 cents per KWH, and are getting cheaper.
Oh, and they have this magic invention called the electrical grid. You put power into it, and it can take it out later. You should learn about it
It also take a lot of upfront cash. So as nice as it would be to have more nuclear energy; the window of opportunity is gone. Renewable energy sources will be far cheaper by the time a new nuclear plant opens
In some parts of the world it's tradition to make an ass of oneself all year round
Bullshit or no bullshit; that's the way it is. You wanna change it? You think you can do that, and have a plant built, before other renewable sources are cheaper than this potential nuclear plant? We've got to play the cards we're dealt
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/02/03/1529651/new-mexico-utility-agrees-to-purchase-solar-power-at-a-lower-price-than-coal/
In some places solar plants are thriving and already are the cheapest form of energy
http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/solar-power-to-beat-coal-prices-in-new-mexico-130205.htm
The cheap clean energy is here, and it's getting cheaper. The price of solar is falling fast.
http://www.dmsolar.com/solar-module-1141.html
If you're looking to invest more than $50 on LED light bulbs then today's solar is very cheap these days. Here is a retailer that sells some residential panels for only 0.79 per watt. Solar will only continue from here to become even cheaper
Attempting to Build a nuclear plant has large upfront costs, takes 20 years, and often results in a half-way cancelled project. By the time a plant could be built, and become operational, other forms of energy such as solar will have since grown cheaper than the cost electricity from the new nuclear plant
The red states get the defense dollars because the South has warm weather year-round and the West has cheap land for bombing ranges and secrecy.
.....wat?
Horses are much smarter than cows, and respond much more favorably to human direction. Though cows also poop when faced with anything stressful. The thing is that cows get stressed out by pretty much anything else that isn't another cow. Hence they just crap everywhere.
Cows aren't really that smart or independent. A cow will not go off on its own to take a crap. Nor will it be smart enough to realize why it is getting food.
Most likely you'll just have cows accidentally get a treat, the other cows will see this, become jealous, and then crowd the reward bowl until they break it.
There is no way in hell a cow is going to poop in a specific place. They crap everywhere, constantly. It's just their response to most events.
Many a time a cow raised its posture, stared me directly in the eyes, and then crapped itself with a defiant glare.
I've been poor as hell before. I don't recall any magic force pulling me into porn
Sounds like the answer to most every question in science class can now be answered, "Because a wizard did it".
Woe be it to the teacher who questions the "Get out of Science Class"-Wizard!
Nuclear plants take 20 to 25 years to build. Even if a nuclear project starts today, its cost will be much more expensive than solar energy by the time it can open.
You believe the Forex market is manipulated, and so you do not trade in it correct? They have a bad reputation with you.
That's the point I was going for
Nope, they collect information based on IP address for those not on FB too
There's a thing called reputation. If the reputation of these prediction markets is that they are manipulated then no on will trust them.
If a news outlet takes information from these manipulated markets, knowing they are manipulated, then that network was really just arbitrarily picking up pieces of data that appear to support whichever political party that station is allied to. They would have found anything that works to support their dialog.