Individual actions don't do much, those kids could all have a carbon footprint of zero and it wouldn't make a dent. But real change would occur if governments stop subsidizing fossil fuel production and start taxing pollution.
Yawn, more people will say having food to eat and a roof over their heads is more important that global warming? So what?
The poll tracks the number of people who think AGW is real and that it affects them. Simple questions, no push there.
No power plant runs 100% of the time, there are all kinds of scheduled and unscheduled outages. We reliably know when the sun will be up and we can generally predict the wind.
Batteries are a good candidate for replacing NG peaker plants, which cost about $300 million to build and run only about 5% of the time.
Software developers generally have to do what they are told, and work on whatever the boss thinks is important. You don't get to decide whether it is going to bring in money or not.
I've worked in the industry for many years, usually with a private office or shared with one person. Recently got a job in an agile "scrum" shop, which went to an open floorplan a few months later. Miserable experience on both counts. Every day you get a Jira work ticket for some "the user wants to see" granule of a thing that you had no part in designing. Zero privacy. It is amazingly de-motivating.
That 9-year-old article is dead wrong. The levelized cost of electricity for nuclear is 11.2-18.3 cents per kilowatt-hour. More expensive than coal, NG, and most renewables.
https://www.lazard.com/perspec...
Refuted by the Grace study;
https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/res...
"Research based on observations from NASAâ(TM)s twin NASA/German Aerospace Centerâ(TM)s twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites indicates that between 2002 and 2016, Antarctica shed approximately 125 gigatons of ice per year, causing global sea level to rise by 0.35 millimeters per year."
It is meaningless to cut out project overhead and investment risk, because those costs most definitely do remain and they have to be paid. Then there is the cost of capital, which in recent cases appears to be about $25 billion for a nuke plant which produces zero electricity for the 10+ years it takes to build one.
That's why the levelized cost of electricity for nuke is higher than pretty much everything else.
The wholesale price of electricity in Germany is about the same as the rest of Europe. Residential electric bills are mostly taxes and fees. You conveniently left that fact out.
According to wikipedia " indium is leached from slag and dust of zinc production". So you're claiming that zinc comes only from China and Africa? "the United States produced an all-time high of 820,000 metric tons of zinc in 2014, making it the world's fourth-largest zinc producer"
Trump retained ownership of his companies, management of them apparently simply moved over to his close family members, so don't get all excited. And don't you think he should release his tax returns?
I see a lot of unsubstantiated opinions punctuated with CAPITALIZED WORDS. Solar panels and wind turbines have a goodly long lifetime and definitely pay off well before they wear out. The levelized cost of wind is now about even with NG without subsidies. You don't have a clue!
All polymers from photosynthetic resins to date deteriorate quite rapidly when exposed to a few hours of direct sunlight, making it applicable only to indoor and internal component use.
Seems like all you would have to do is paint the part to solve that problem. Or just dip it in something that blocks UV.
You're right it couldn't possibly be Chinese nuclear plants because they only generate about 2% of the country's electricity.
As for building lots of nuke plants elsewhere, all you have to do is figure out how to finance them, who pays for the liability insurance (it better not be taxpayers), how to safely dispose of the existing waste, who is going to agree to live near them, and how to make them come online in less than 10 years.
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Your assertions seem plausible, but do you have some cites to support what you said?
Individual actions don't do much, those kids could all have a carbon footprint of zero and it wouldn't make a dent. But real change would occur if governments stop subsidizing fossil fuel production and start taxing pollution.
Yawn, more people will say having food to eat and a roof over their heads is more important that global warming? So what? The poll tracks the number of people who think AGW is real and that it affects them. Simple questions, no push there.
No power plant runs 100% of the time, there are all kinds of scheduled and unscheduled outages. We reliably know when the sun will be up and we can generally predict the wind. Batteries are a good candidate for replacing NG peaker plants, which cost about $300 million to build and run only about 5% of the time.
What about the many indictments, plea bargains, and outright convictions of trump's flunkies? Mueller hasn't shown a fraction of what he has.
Software developers generally have to do what they are told, and work on whatever the boss thinks is important. You don't get to decide whether it is going to bring in money or not.
I've worked in the industry for many years, usually with a private office or shared with one person. Recently got a job in an agile "scrum" shop, which went to an open floorplan a few months later. Miserable experience on both counts. Every day you get a Jira work ticket for some "the user wants to see" granule of a thing that you had no part in designing. Zero privacy. It is amazingly de-motivating.
It begs the question, why even apply there in the first place.
So you could see their office environment tucked away behind the job description on the internet?
That 9-year-old article is dead wrong. The levelized cost of electricity for nuclear is 11.2-18.3 cents per kilowatt-hour. More expensive than coal, NG, and most renewables. https://www.lazard.com/perspec...
Refuted by the Grace study; https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/res... "Research based on observations from NASAâ(TM)s twin NASA/German Aerospace Centerâ(TM)s twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites indicates that between 2002 and 2016, Antarctica shed approximately 125 gigatons of ice per year, causing global sea level to rise by 0.35 millimeters per year."
I notice you didn't cite any of those studies.
And why would that be? Science isn't religion. Anyone with any sense will admit that they could be wrong.
It is meaningless to cut out project overhead and investment risk, because those costs most definitely do remain and they have to be paid. Then there is the cost of capital, which in recent cases appears to be about $25 billion for a nuke plant which produces zero electricity for the 10+ years it takes to build one. That's why the levelized cost of electricity for nuke is higher than pretty much everything else.
The wholesale price of electricity in Germany is about the same as the rest of Europe. Residential electric bills are mostly taxes and fees. You conveniently left that fact out.
Maybe you can explain to us how that's going to happen.
Didn't read the study, did you.
According to wikipedia " indium is leached from slag and dust of zinc production". So you're claiming that zinc comes only from China and Africa? "the United States produced an all-time high of 820,000 metric tons of zinc in 2014, making it the world's fourth-largest zinc producer"
No cites? Sounds like utter bullshit to me.
Trump retained ownership of his companies, management of them apparently simply moved over to his close family members, so don't get all excited. And don't you think he should release his tax returns?
The capacity factor for modern wind turbines is 35-40%, assuming that they are appropriately sited.
I see a lot of unsubstantiated opinions punctuated with CAPITALIZED WORDS. Solar panels and wind turbines have a goodly long lifetime and definitely pay off well before they wear out. The levelized cost of wind is now about even with NG without subsidies. You don't have a clue!
So where's your arithmetic? I'm seeing utility-scale storage advertised $160/kWh. https://www.eosenergystorage.c...
All polymers from photosynthetic resins to date deteriorate quite rapidly when exposed to a few hours of direct sunlight, making it applicable only to indoor and internal component use.
Seems like all you would have to do is paint the part to solve that problem. Or just dip it in something that blocks UV.
Doing a stellar job at journalism.
Was there something in there you thought was inaccurate?
You're right it couldn't possibly be Chinese nuclear plants because they only generate about 2% of the country's electricity. As for building lots of nuke plants elsewhere, all you have to do is figure out how to finance them, who pays for the liability insurance (it better not be taxpayers), how to safely dispose of the existing waste, who is going to agree to live near them, and how to make them come online in less than 10 years.