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>>The time of cheap power is over. The time of cheap oil seems to be over. For the rest: You know that you don't know what will happen. So why do you make bla
by berntb 15y ago
>>The time of cheap power is over.
The time of cheap oil seems to be over.
For the rest: You know that you don't know what will happen. So why do you make blanket statements like that?
For example: Some analysts claim that solar energy will solve all energy problems in ten years. Maybe some of the small fusion projects will work? Thorium? And so on.
Edit: Yeah, since Germany has panicked like a herd of cattle, the time limit is so short that there is very little to do. But the way the electricity prices will go, solar will become attractive earlier.
- lispm 15y agoThat solar energy is cheap in ten years, does not mean that it is suddenly deployed everywhere. It will take decades to roll that out. Germany plans to roll out the whole set of renewables (wind, hydro, solar, biomass, geothermal, ...) over the next FOURTY years to get from 16% (actually currently it may already be at 20%) near to 100%. Thorium is providing a contribution to generating electricity in an amount worth mentioning when? In fifty years? Thirty? How many Thorium reactors will be online within the next ten years? One? Two? Three? That's nothing that would be contributing to the energy needs we have in 2020.