You always lie. China was just coming out of a massive economic downturn that they were trying to hide. Coal usage increased. Now, they are back in another one due to Trumps saying enough of your shit.
You are a constant liar while getting paid by your chinese bosses.
but that is nothing like China's hiring of Americans to obtain another companies technology.
In addition, more of the real talent in India tends to leave there and move to the west.
No. That idea was great 10 years ago.
Now that PV have come down in price, solar thermal makes little sense.
Worse, solar thermal is a determent to the environment.
All of the nations are trying to blame each other. China continues their MASSIVE expansion on coal plants. Not just replacement of old plants, but building all over the globe for their belt-trade idea. In addition, the MAJORITY of new coal plants in China are not replacements, but additions.
Then we have Europe, in which eastern Europe continues to say that they are exempt and continue to add. Germany kills off nukes and is replacing with coal.
Then we have America. America was headed in the right direction for the last 9 years. But now, we have trump.
Trump has been pushing coal, but thankfully, that has gone NOWHERE, other than increased sales to China ( who then resells to other nations in their belt/trade ).
And to be fair, his cutting the MPG on our fleet will actually HELP kill off new ICE sales. The reason is that EVs are cheaper to own than ICE.
Probably his one action that will make things worse in America is his allowing oil companies to ignore methane emissions from oil wells. I fear this action WILL increase America's methane emissions.
But, until all nations accept that NO MORE BUILDING ADDITIONAL FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS (and any replacement has to be by one that emits less CO2), then things will only get worse.
Except, that is not going on in India/America case. What tech does India have, that American business/gov. want? For your example, it would be funnier to substitute apple and horse.
Yes and no. How you describe baseload used to be the case. These days, nukes, and I believe regular fossil fuel plants, are capable of load following within reason, i.e. 60-100% loads over say a minute or 2.
But yeah, pretty much what you said.
hold on there.
I think that you will have a difficult time showing that Nukes are as cheap as Wind/Solar. Some of the new SMRs will LIKELY be, but still will take time to prove.
The real issue is that wind/solar can not provide base-load power. Even with battery storage, you still have LIMITED time energy. And have 10-50% of the sunlight cut (i.e. volcano), well, you have NO solar/wind based electricity.
As such, we NEED real base-load power, such as geo-thermal and nukes. And these should not compete against wind/solar in economics, since they are in different classes. However, it makes good sense for these 2 to compete against each other. Around the great lakes, in fact, the coastal area, is ideal for nuclear power. OTOH, throughout western America, is ideal for geo-thermal.
Uh, no.
Only a fool thinks that they can contain a true meltdown and nuke engineers are NOT fools. There has NEVER been a single reactor design that can contain a full blown meltdown and yes, NRC never approved something that claims that they were meltdown proof. That is why the original systems were designed to PREVENT meltdowns with active avoidance systems. Now, the new designs are to prevent them with passive systems. NuScale is a great example.
BTW, I am an old fuck. So old, that back in 1977,
I DEVELOPED this same wind generator while I was studying at Northern Illinois It has the SAME design in that the generator is NOT turned directly, but is placed on the outside. Now, we have a 10KW solar and Tesla MS, while I work on other ideas. The point is, that I probably know a fucking great deal more than you do.
Actually, it would be better to say that we MUST get 2/3 of our energy from base-load and it can not be new fossil fuel. Then allow the utilities to figure out how to get that 2/3. Geo-thermal is VERY attractive for about 1/2 of the nation. Wind/Solar are NOT base-load, but getting say 1/3 of our energy from them would not kill us.
As to Nukes, we should allow only 4th gen with PASSIVE safety systems. Anything that requires active is a disaster in the making.
First off, there are only 7 nukes on the great lakes.
Secondly, those 7 are getting OLD. They really need to start being replaced. Coal is NOT an option. And we should stop doing Nat Gas as well. CO2 is a real issue, not imaginary.
Third, there WERE more nuke power plants that operated around the lakes that are now gone, but the land is still undeveloped. You have cooling, towers, etc. Those are IDEAL to put NuScale and later, reactors that can burn the 'waste'. For example, Zion power plant was shut down, but the land still exists. There are a number of other sites where nuke power plants have been shut down and is still available for this.
uh no.
Solar+Wind is fine for SOME of the energy, but, not for major, let alone ALL OF the electricity.
We need to have Baseload power available at all time. And storage only lasts a short time.
Add in geo-thermal for baseload is a good way to go, but like hydro, wind, solar, etc it is limited to areas.
Again, WHEN yellowstone blows, or some of the major earthquakes in western USA/Europe, or in Japan, then wind/solar will plummet, and storage will last a couple of hours AT BEST.
Fukushima was designed to prevent melt down in an ACTIVE fashion.
If they had had electricity, it would have been fine.
And no, it was NEVER designed to prevent escape into environment if a melt down occurs.
Bull Shit. Chernobyl and Fukohama were old systems and not designed to be PASSIVELY safe. IOW, they required ppl along with electricity, to be actively safe.
Chernobyl: A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions.
Fukishima: However, the tsunami disabled the emergency generators that would have provided power to control and operate the pumps necessary to cool the reactors. The insufficient cooling led to three nuclear meltdowns, hydrogen-air explosions, and the release of radioactive material in Units 1, 2 and 3 from 12 to 15 March.
With the new designs on reactors, they are PASSIVELY safe. IOW, they can not really fail.
NuScale is so safe that it does not require external electricity.
Overall, lots of wind on the lakes, and other than superior, relatively shallow ( i.e. cheap to set-up ). At the same time, it would be good to add new nuclear reactors there. Together, they can shut down Murray coal.
Actually, disregard the accusations.
The real issue that actually disqualifies him, is he is a major liar. He knowingly lied about devil's triangle. He lied about a number of items. That, and that alone, disqualifies him from scotus.
range will have to be around 150 MPC, not the 250+ that is being pushed.
The vehicles will be accord or smaller, maybe like Smart (ugh), but I think that it is TOO small.
Regardless, battery energy density is increasing, while prices are dropping. And I expect that others will follow tesla and drop the cobalt out of their batteries.
That will lower the price a great deal.
It is sad that America has extremists like these.
Elon is not only changing America, but the world, to being better. I suspect that every nation on this planet would LOVE to have elon and his companies move there.
The fact is, that Tesla and SpaceX have made massive changes to our society.
In the next 5 years, DECENT EVs will costs 10-15K. Yes, EVs, once batteries are developed, will be much cheaper than ICE.
Then we have SpaceX forcing the price of launches way down. America was out of the industry. Now, we are the industry.
However, Musk will continue to force this down further and make it economically possible to go to the moon, and mars.
And yet, we see so much trash ripping into these companies.
We NEED to have multiple types of energy. Wind, and Solar should be just PART of our energy.
We need to add more Geo-thermal, tidal, and most of all, Nukes.
In the end, we need to create an energy matrix and limit the input from any one of these energy types.
LOL.
Actually, that was pretty good. .
Have to admit that I will be happy when he is booked for treason, but for dealing with China, he has done more than any president since Kennedy.
They need to drop the net neutrality, and instead, make it easy for local gov to install fiber and run a utility. In addition, CA should work with 2 of their local sat companies to get coverage for rural areas.
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You always lie. China was just coming out of a massive economic downturn that they were trying to hide. Coal usage increased. Now, they are back in another one due to Trumps saying enough of your shit.
You are a constant liar while getting paid by your chinese bosses.
but that is nothing like China's hiring of Americans to obtain another companies technology.
In addition, more of the real talent in India tends to leave there and move to the west.
No. That idea was great 10 years ago.
Now that PV have come down in price, solar thermal makes little sense.
Worse, solar thermal is a determent to the environment.
However, the use of the heated salts esp. combined with say a nuke power plant, actually makes sense.
All of the nations are trying to blame each other. China continues their MASSIVE expansion on coal plants. Not just replacement of old plants, but building all over the globe for their belt-trade idea. In addition, the MAJORITY of new coal plants in China are not replacements, but additions.
Then we have Europe, in which eastern Europe continues to say that they are exempt and continue to add. Germany kills off nukes and is replacing with coal.
Then we have America. America was headed in the right direction for the last 9 years. But now, we have trump.
Trump has been pushing coal, but thankfully, that has gone NOWHERE, other than increased sales to China ( who then resells to other nations in their belt/trade ).
And to be fair, his cutting the MPG on our fleet will actually HELP kill off new ICE sales. The reason is that EVs are cheaper to own than ICE.
Probably his one action that will make things worse in America is his allowing oil companies to ignore methane emissions from oil wells. I fear this action WILL increase America's methane emissions.
But, until all nations accept that NO MORE BUILDING ADDITIONAL FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS (and any replacement has to be by one that emits less CO2), then things will only get worse.
Except, that is not going on in India/America case. What tech does India have, that American business/gov. want? For your example, it would be funnier to substitute apple and horse.
Yes and no. How you describe baseload used to be the case. These days, nukes, and I believe regular fossil fuel plants, are capable of load following within reason, i.e. 60-100% loads over say a minute or 2. But yeah, pretty much what you said.
And yet, we have had nukes along the great lakes for over 70 years and still no issues.
hold on there.
I think that you will have a difficult time showing that Nukes are as cheap as Wind/Solar. Some of the new SMRs will LIKELY be, but still will take time to prove.
The real issue is that wind/solar can not provide base-load power. Even with battery storage, you still have LIMITED time energy. And have 10-50% of the sunlight cut (i.e. volcano), well, you have NO solar/wind based electricity.
As such, we NEED real base-load power, such as geo-thermal and nukes. And these should not compete against wind/solar in economics, since they are in different classes. However, it makes good sense for these 2 to compete against each other. Around the great lakes, in fact, the coastal area, is ideal for nuclear power. OTOH, throughout western America, is ideal for geo-thermal.
Uh, no.
Only a fool thinks that they can contain a true meltdown and nuke engineers are NOT fools. There has NEVER been a single reactor design that can contain a full blown meltdown and yes, NRC never approved something that claims that they were meltdown proof. That is why the original systems were designed to PREVENT meltdowns with active avoidance systems. Now, the new designs are to prevent them with passive systems. NuScale is a great example.
BTW, I am an old fuck. So old, that back in 1977, I DEVELOPED this same wind generator while I was studying at Northern Illinois It has the SAME design in that the generator is NOT turned directly, but is placed on the outside. Now, we have a 10KW solar and Tesla MS, while I work on other ideas. The point is, that I probably know a fucking great deal more than you do.
Thats ok. You obviously do not have an engineering background, esp in power mechanics.
And no, solar can NOT do base-load.
Actually, it would be better to say that we MUST get 2/3 of our energy from base-load and it can not be new fossil fuel. Then allow the utilities to figure out how to get that 2/3. Geo-thermal is VERY attractive for about 1/2 of the nation. Wind/Solar are NOT base-load, but getting say 1/3 of our energy from them would not kill us.
As to Nukes, we should allow only 4th gen with PASSIVE safety systems. Anything that requires active is a disaster in the making.
First off, there are only 7 nukes on the great lakes.
Secondly, those 7 are getting OLD. They really need to start being replaced. Coal is NOT an option. And we should stop doing Nat Gas as well. CO2 is a real issue, not imaginary.
Third, there WERE more nuke power plants that operated around the lakes that are now gone, but the land is still undeveloped. You have cooling, towers, etc. Those are IDEAL to put NuScale and later, reactors that can burn the 'waste'. For example, Zion power plant was shut down, but the land still exists. There are a number of other sites where nuke power plants have been shut down and is still available for this.
uh no.
Solar+Wind is fine for SOME of the energy, but, not for major, let alone ALL OF the electricity.
We need to have Baseload power available at all time. And storage only lasts a short time.
Add in geo-thermal for baseload is a good way to go, but like hydro, wind, solar, etc it is limited to areas.
Again, WHEN yellowstone blows, or some of the major earthquakes in western USA/Europe, or in Japan, then wind/solar will plummet, and storage will last a couple of hours AT BEST.
Fukushima was designed to prevent melt down in an ACTIVE fashion.
If they had had electricity, it would have been fine.
And no, it was NEVER designed to prevent escape into environment if a melt down occurs.
Bull Shit.
Chernobyl and Fukohama were old systems and not designed to be PASSIVELY safe. IOW, they required ppl along with electricity, to be actively safe.
Chernobyl: A combination of inherent reactor design flaws and the reactor operators arranging the core in a manner contrary to the checklist for the test, eventually resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions.
Fukishima: However, the tsunami disabled the emergency generators that would have provided power to control and operate the pumps necessary to cool the reactors. The insufficient cooling led to three nuclear meltdowns, hydrogen-air explosions, and the release of radioactive material in Units 1, 2 and 3 from 12 to 15 March.
With the new designs on reactors, they are PASSIVELY safe. IOW, they can not really fail.
NuScale is so safe that it does not require external electricity.
Overall, lots of wind on the lakes, and other than superior, relatively shallow ( i.e. cheap to set-up ). At the same time, it would be good to add new nuclear reactors there. Together, they can shut down Murray coal.
Actually, disregard the accusations. The real issue that actually disqualifies him, is he is a major liar. He knowingly lied about devil's triangle. He lied about a number of items. That, and that alone, disqualifies him from scotus.
range will have to be around 150 MPC, not the 250+ that is being pushed.
The vehicles will be accord or smaller, maybe like Smart (ugh), but I think that it is TOO small.
Regardless, battery energy density is increasing, while prices are dropping. And I expect that others will follow tesla and drop the cobalt out of their batteries.
That will lower the price a great deal.
Model 3 is too big. Needs to be accord or smart size. In addition, battery R&D is jumping.
It is sad that America has extremists like these.
Elon is not only changing America, but the world, to being better. I suspect that every nation on this planet would LOVE to have elon and his companies move there.
The fact is, that Tesla and SpaceX have made massive changes to our society.
In the next 5 years, DECENT EVs will costs 10-15K. Yes, EVs, once batteries are developed, will be much cheaper than ICE.
Then we have SpaceX forcing the price of launches way down. America was out of the industry. Now, we are the industry.
However, Musk will continue to force this down further and make it economically possible to go to the moon, and mars.
And yet, we see so much trash ripping into these companies.
We NEED to have multiple types of energy. Wind, and Solar should be just PART of our energy.
We need to add more Geo-thermal, tidal, and most of all, Nukes.
In the end, we need to create an energy matrix and limit the input from any one of these energy types.
LOL.
Actually, that was pretty good.
. Have to admit that I will be happy when he is booked for treason, but for dealing with China, he has done more than any president since Kennedy.
Seriously, I expect that trump will push major changes in the west over this. And yes, it is time to get control back due to security issues.
They need to drop the net neutrality, and instead, make it easy for local gov to install fiber and run a utility. In addition, CA should work with 2 of their local sat companies to get coverage for rural areas.