It does not make much sense to plaster scandinavia with a rail way system, that supports small cabins of 10 - 20 people.
Your jet fuel idea, or the navies idea will never be commercial viable. If you would watch the video you promote tho badly since months, you had realized that. Because they explain in details why that only makes sense for the navy. Hint: transportation cost of fuel to all places on the world where the navy has a carrier.
What do you think how often I sit in a plane that has 100 or more seats and only has a hand full of passengers? Once a year minimum. However, one reason for that usually is: the plane is expected to start the next morning from the other airport... and then it is filled better.
Otherwise muonic fusion is painfully close to working, but still looks impossible. Cold fusion is exceedingly unlikely to work. Muonic fusion is cold fusion.
I don't know why this/. article is full with "energy break even" myths.
There never was energy break even in a magnetic contained plasma anywhere on the world! And currently running reactors are not even designed with the attempt to reach break even: https://www.iter.org/sci/Beyon..." Plasma energy breakeven has never been achieved: the current record for energy release is held by JET, which succeeded in generating 16 MW of fusion power, for 24 MW of power used to heat the plasma (a Q ratio of 0.67). " ITER might achieve break even, perhaps it does not: "Scientists have now designed the next-step deviceâ"ITER - as a Q > 10 device (producing 500 MW of fusion power for 50 MW consumed by the heating systems). ITER will begin writing the chapter on 21st century fusion."
Need a better university system to make sure staff are hired on merit with skills? Where and how do you acquire the skills regarding fusion, if not starting as an unskilled grad student in the not working fusion research reactors?
It does not matter on local scale if the robber barons are capitalist or fachists.
Why do you deliberately try to miss my point?
North Korea had enough food if USA (robber barons) and south Korea would not always disrupt the harvest in North Korea with their late summer war maneauvers in front of the North Korean coast.
Venezuela has no food problem. They have a distribution problem and a currency crisis. And like America: an idiot as president.
And like North Korea: they are under an trade embargo by the US. And the US is attempting to force the rest of the world to honour that embargo, too.
So: read a book, instead of loving your fat assed american poor breatheren.
When we talk about particle-antiparticle pairs generally do you think it's more convenient or less convenient to include photons pairs? No idea. Why would it be a question of convenience?
anyhow, that a trillion dollars worth of food just spoils tells that spoiling food is actually really cheap, hence it ending up spoilt and not eaten. When I'm not working, I live in Thailand. While it is "not a secret" that in Germany e.g. supermarkets alone throw away 40% of all fresh food (obviously not canned food etc.) similar amounts get thrown away by the population. Thrown away! Not fed to livestock or animals.
Here in Thailand the amount of food thrown away feels to be 90%. Stuff I would eat, my GF throws away as "might be spoiled". While from the outside it looks like a poor country, food is so cheap, no one cares. I mean: no one cares about keeping food stored properly and eating it next day. Yesterday we made rice... oh, we only eat half of it? But it is "normal rice"? I want "sticky rice" now! So we cook sticky rice, and tomorrow we throw away the rice from yesterday... we not even eat 50% of the rice we cook.
Unbelievable. My parents were born during and shortly after the war. I was raised as in "you don't throw away food"... and most importantly if it is meat or fish. Here they have family of 5, but buy for ten to share with neighbours or relatives. But those do the same!! So we walk to the neighbour give him 2 roasted fish and he gives us a roasted chicken.
At home he and we still have 2 times as much as we can eat.
And that happens every day.
What I meant with "not fed to livestock" at least vegetables here are fed to buffaloes, cattle or elephants.
The only regions with starvations are war zones and areas where war lords rule instead of a "government".
World wide 40% to 50% of all harvested food is thrown away... not an issue of shelf life. More an issue of "does not look good enough to be put on the shelf" and oh, it is already close to "best used before" date. Or people buy it and don't eat it.
The planet has no population problem. It has a "robber baron capitalism" problem.
Last time I checked iOS only runs on Apple devices and Mac OS X or OS X *legally* only runs on Macs.
Perhaps you want to look up what a fanboy/i is or what fashion is.
I know hundreds of Apple users and most of them are hard core computer users, give them better hardware and a better OS and they switch instantly.
OTOH if you have a reasonable specced laptop, preferred made from metal, and you install me macOS on it, I might buy it. Just to prove a point. I don't care about laptops, or brands. But I care about the OS!
Photons don't have an anti particle. It might be a neat trick to somehow says: a photon is its own anti particle, but in the long run it makes no sense at all. Suddenly in nuclear physics we have anti gamma decay... wow, never heard about that in school... A photon hits an electron and it "quantum leaps" into a higher "orbit"... now it drops down and emits an anti photon... oops. Or was it the other way around? Sorry, no idea which modern school suddenly uses this model of "a photon is its own anti matter particle"... I must have missed lots in school and university!!
Perhaps you want to reread what you typed: base-load is a type of on-demand, since it will run 24x7. No, a base load plant runs with about 95% capacity 24x7, it is not "on-demand". It is a "fire and forget" style of plant.
If you do not have the ability to deliver it 24x7 i.e. on-demand Base load has nothing to do with demand. The base load plant does not know what the demand is, because: a base load plant runs with about 95% capacity 24x7. If load/demand is changing the base load plant still runs at 95%... 24x7 365d. It does not adapt to any load changes. Hence: it is called base load plant
If you do not have the ability to deliver it 24x7 i.e. on-demand, then it can not be baseload. Idiot back at. If I'm a grid operator: I decide which of my plants I use for base load. And that are first: all "intermittent" plants and secondly my old base load plants (e.g. the old ignite plants I try to phase out).
If you can not grasp that base load is a horizontal line of your load graph: stay out of discussion, or consult a psychiatrist or read a book about power generation.
There is no "fossil fuel back up" needed. The fossile fuel plants already exist, and are replaced by renewables.
If you indeed have trouble to fulfill demand with renewables, you still have the old fossile plant. However it makes more sense to import "electricity" at that point than relying on importing fossile fuel.
Until solar is cheaper than fuelling a fossil fuel plant It is. Since a decade.
Yeah, that is why I worked in that industry over 10 years... it makes you uninformed about power. Especially baseload. The worst thing is: I'm a software developer and requirements engineer. That basically means, you know absolutely nothing about how the business and the technology works. Then you make nice diagrams with a CASE system, design an architecture and the "real developers" wine that they can not build the software to that architecture. Five years later your software project gets canceled after 25million Euro got sunk. Life is a bitch...
Oh, wait: EnBW.com made *billions* with my software... idiot.
Also, if solar power is so cheap then Germany would be enjoying the lowest electricity costs in the whole of Europe. Germany would also not have similar laws forcing the use of solar power. As Germany does not produce 100% of its energy from Solar, your claim is obviously bollocks.
And I tell you again... I have the feeling I did already 100 times, but it might be it was only 10 times: 90% of germans power bill are "taxes". To force them to use less energy. Obviously those "taxes" have nothing to do with installation costs or production costs of energy. Secondly: a typical german has a quarter or even down to a tenth of the energy usage of an american, so my power bill is still only half as big as yours, despite the higher price per kWh. I told you that as well minimum 100 times...
One last thing, calling people retarded is not a convincing means to make an argument. Probably not, but I'm pissed off with retarded people like you.
I leave it to your "not retardedness" to figure why I put "taxes" into quotes.
This behaviour is probably just habit, and in no way related to health or other reasons. The only point where I consider cooling or reducing humidity is when I'm sweating so much that sweat might drop in my laptop keyboard.
If you cannot fathom the idea of running the air conditioner on a cool and humid day then you must live in a very moderate climate I do neither. I neither can fathom it, nor do I live in a cool moderate climate. I live in Germany, France and Thailand. And in Germany my town is one of the most humid ones... albeit my house is built in a way that it is actually to dry inside and I could use an AC to make it more humid:P
While France and Germany can be considered moderate in winter, they are awful hot in summer, particularly my region. While Thailand is considered "hot" it is super humid in the rain season and afterwards super cold at night...
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It does not make much sense to plaster scandinavia with a rail way system, that supports small cabins of 10 - 20 people.
Your jet fuel idea, or the navies idea will never be commercial viable. If you would watch the video you promote tho badly since months, you had realized that. Because they explain in details why that only makes sense for the navy. Hint: transportation cost of fuel to all places on the world where the navy has a carrier.
What do you think how often I sit in a plane that has 100 or more seats and only has a hand full of passengers? Once a year minimum. However, one reason for that usually is: the plane is expected to start the next morning from the other airport ... and then it is filled better.
Well, the example of LAX to SF was not about actually flying that route but giving an impression about the distance.
First of all, common sense tells us: this is completely not plausible.
Secondly, you have enough IQ cells to realize that yourself.
Anyway: people who actually research such matters disagree with you. https://www.ivl.se/download/18...
Otherwise muonic fusion is painfully close to working, but still looks impossible. Cold fusion is exceedingly unlikely to work.
Muonic fusion is cold fusion.
2. Break even was passed about a decade ago.
Not on this planet.
Where do yo come from?
I don't know why this /. article is full with "energy break even" myths.
There never was energy break even in a magnetic contained plasma anywhere on the world! And currently running reactors are not even designed with the attempt to reach break even: https://www.iter.org/sci/Beyon... " Plasma energy breakeven has never been achieved: the current record for energy release is held by JET, which succeeded in generating 16 MW of fusion power, for 24 MW of power used to heat the plasma (a Q ratio of 0.67). "
ITER might achieve break even, perhaps it does not: "Scientists have now designed the next-step deviceâ"ITER - as a Q > 10 device (producing 500 MW of fusion power for 50 MW consumed by the heating systems). ITER will begin writing the chapter on 21st century fusion."
Need a better university system to make sure staff are hired on merit with skills?
Where and how do you acquire the skills regarding fusion, if not starting as an unskilled grad student in the not working fusion research reactors?
It does not matter on local scale if the robber barons are capitalist or fachists.
Why do you deliberately try to miss my point?
North Korea had enough food if USA (robber barons) and south Korea would not always disrupt the harvest in North Korea with their late summer war maneauvers in front of the North Korean coast.
Venezuela has no food problem. They have a distribution problem and a currency crisis. And like America: an idiot as president.
And like North Korea: they are under an trade embargo by the US. And the US is attempting to force the rest of the world to honour that embargo, too.
So: read a book, instead of loving your fat assed american poor breatheren.
And why are you concerned about alarmists, when you can listen to scientists or simply read a book about it?
When we talk about particle-antiparticle pairs generally do you think it's more convenient or less convenient to include photons pairs?
No idea. Why would it be a question of convenience?
anyhow, that a trillion dollars worth of food just spoils tells that spoiling food is actually really cheap, hence it ending up spoilt and not eaten.
When I'm not working, I live in Thailand.
While it is "not a secret" that in Germany e.g. supermarkets alone throw away 40% of all fresh food (obviously not canned food etc.) similar amounts get thrown away by the population. Thrown away! Not fed to livestock or animals.
Here in Thailand the amount of food thrown away feels to be 90%. Stuff I would eat, my GF throws away as "might be spoiled". While from the outside it looks like a poor country, food is so cheap, no one cares. I mean: no one cares about keeping food stored properly and eating it next day. Yesterday we made rice ... oh, we only eat half of it? But it is "normal rice"? I want "sticky rice" now! So we cook sticky rice, and tomorrow we throw away the rice from yesterday ... we not even eat 50% of the rice we cook.
Unbelievable. My parents were born during and shortly after the war. I was raised as in "you don't throw away food" ... and most importantly if it is meat or fish. Here they have family of 5, but buy for ten to share with neighbours or relatives. But those do the same!! So we walk to the neighbour give him 2 roasted fish and he gives us a roasted chicken.
At home he and we still have 2 times as much as we can eat.
And that happens every day.
What I meant with "not fed to livestock" at least vegetables here are fed to buffaloes, cattle or elephants.
Is your mind still living in the 1977s?
Population growth is flattening.
The only regions with starvations are war zones and areas where war lords rule instead of a "government".
World wide 40% to 50% of all harvested food is thrown away ... not an issue of shelf life. More an issue of "does not look good enough to be put on the shelf" and oh, it is already close to "best used before" date. Or people buy it and don't eat it.
The planet has no population problem. It has a "robber baron capitalism" problem.
Does that mean, we get tomatoes back?
He is also fat! Well, according to european standards at least ... /me peeks his nose and looks at what he found
Oh, what did I want to say, I forgot.
Apple is a fashion choice, stop being fashists.
Last time I checked iOS only runs on Apple devices and Mac OS X or OS X *legally* only runs on Macs.
Perhaps you want to look up what a fanboy/i is or what fashion is.
I know hundreds of Apple users and most of them are hard core computer users, give them better hardware and a better OS and they switch instantly.
OTOH if you have a reasonable specced laptop, preferred made from metal, and you install me macOS on it, I might buy it. Just to prove a point. I don't care about laptops, or brands. But I care about the OS!
For one moment I was reading anti-climax and was scared ... but then my GF snorted ...
If you use a negative or positive sign for describing forces is completely arbitrary.
I can't remember that we ever used a sign ... why would we? The formula is the same, regardless if something is attracting or repelling ...
Photons don't have an anti particle. ... wow, never heard about that in school ... ... now it drops down and emits an anti photon ... oops. Or was it the other way around? Sorry, no idea which modern school suddenly uses this model of "a photon is its own anti matter particle" ... I must have missed lots in school and university!!
It might be a neat trick to somehow says: a photon is its own anti particle, but in the long run it makes no sense at all.
Suddenly in nuclear physics we have anti gamma decay
A photon hits an electron and it "quantum leaps" into a higher "orbit"
Those "exceptionally grassy highway medians" are exceptionally useful for emergency landings in small private planes.
Just mentioning it.
Perhaps you want to reread what you typed:
base-load is a type of on-demand, since it will run 24x7.
No, a base load plant runs with about 95% capacity 24x7, it is not "on-demand". It is a "fire and forget" style of plant.
If you do not have the ability to deliver it 24x7 i.e. on-demand ... 24x7 365d. It does not adapt to any load changes. Hence: it is called base load plant
Base load has nothing to do with demand.
The base load plant does not know what the demand is, because: a base load plant runs with about 95% capacity 24x7. If load/demand is changing the base load plant still runs at 95%
If you do not have the ability to deliver it 24x7 i.e. on-demand, then it can not be baseload.
Idiot back at.
If I'm a grid operator: I decide which of my plants I use for base load. And that are first: all "intermittent" plants and secondly my old base load plants (e.g. the old ignite plants I try to phase out).
If you can not grasp that base load is a horizontal line of your load graph: stay out of discussion, or consult a psychiatrist or read a book about power generation.
Honestly: it can't be so hard to grasp!!
There is no "fossil fuel back up" needed.
The fossile fuel plants already exist, and are replaced by renewables.
If you indeed have trouble to fulfill demand with renewables, you still have the old fossile plant.
However it makes more sense to import "electricity" at that point than relying on importing fossile fuel.
Until solar is cheaper than fuelling a fossil fuel plant
It is. Since a decade.
Yeah, that is why I worked in that industry over 10 years ... it makes you uninformed about power. Especially baseload. ...
The worst thing is: I'm a software developer and requirements engineer. That basically means, you know absolutely nothing about how the business and the technology works. Then you make nice diagrams with a CASE system, design an architecture and the "real developers" wine that they can not build the software to that architecture.
Five years later your software project gets canceled after 25million Euro got sunk. Life is a bitch
Oh, wait: EnBW.com made *billions* with my software ... idiot.
Also, if solar power is so cheap then Germany would be enjoying the lowest electricity costs in the whole of Europe. Germany would also not have similar laws forcing the use of solar power.
As Germany does not produce 100% of its energy from Solar, your claim is obviously bollocks.
And I tell you again ... I have the feeling I did already 100 times, but it might be it was only 10 times: 90% of germans power bill are "taxes". To force them to use less energy. Obviously those "taxes" have nothing to do with installation costs or production costs of energy. ...
Secondly: a typical german has a quarter or even down to a tenth of the energy usage of an american, so my power bill is still only half as big as yours, despite the higher price per kWh. I told you that as well minimum 100 times
One last thing, calling people retarded is not a convincing means to make an argument.
Probably not, but I'm pissed off with retarded people like you.
I leave it to your "not retardedness" to figure why I put "taxes" into quotes.
This behaviour is probably just habit, and in no way related to health or other reasons.
The only point where I consider cooling or reducing humidity is when I'm sweating so much that sweat might drop in my laptop keyboard.
If you cannot fathom the idea of running the air conditioner on a cool and humid day then you must live in a very moderate climate ... albeit my house is built in a way that it is actually to dry inside and I could use an AC to make it more humid:P
I do neither. I neither can fathom it, nor do I live in a cool moderate climate. I live in Germany, France and Thailand. And in Germany my town is one of the most humid ones
While France and Germany can be considered moderate in winter, they are awful hot in summer, particularly my region. While Thailand is considered "hot" it is super humid in the rain season and afterwards super cold at night ...
I simply dress accordingly ...