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The most interesting thing here to me is the paragraph that alludes to a potential future where Norway becomes the battery of Northern Europe. Norway has a ton
by gamegoblin 5y ago
The most interesting thing here to me is the paragraph that alludes to a potential future where Norway becomes the battery of Northern Europe.
Norway has a ton of natural places for pumped hydro installations. In most of the world, installing dams involves displacing thousands or even millions of people and doing vast environmental damage. But due to Norway’s unique geography, this is typically not the case there. Norway has an absurd number of natural, deep, steep-walled valleys and fjords.
- timeon 5y agoI do not think that this is popular idea in Norway.
- eru 5y agoWhy not? Helping the rest of Europe go green should go well with the Norwegian public? Especially after making their money from oil.
- kwhitefoot 5y ago> Why not? Because central government has a history of riding roughshod over the wishes of the local people. Not everyone is keen to see the place they call home or a place they enjoy holidaying in drowned under hundreds of metres of water. Pretty much all the easily (both physically and politically) developed hydropower in Norway has already been at least partially developed. Nonetheless there is a lot of potential for new and improved hydro stations and the work is ongoing. Here are some figures about further expansion: https://www.nve.no/energi/energisystem/vannkraft/potensiell-ny-vannkraftproduksjon/ https://www.nve.no/energi/energisystem/vannkraft/potensiell-...
- barney54 5y agoNorway already is the battery for Denmark and some of Germany. This is exactly how Denmark gets over 50% of their electricity from renewables—they always have Norway to send electricity to when wind generation is high and the reverse when generation is low.
- anonporridge 5y agoThat's not quite a battery. There's no energy storage going on this relationship, just using trade to balance out highly variable energy production through trade.
- mydeskistoosm 5y agoWaterwheel, then, no?
- anonporridge 5y agoA waterwheel is just hydro power, which is itself just an indirect form of solar power.
- lostapathy 5y agoTechnically every form of power is an indirect form of solar power.
- xxpor 5y agoNot nuclear! :)
- lostapathy 5y agoAll elements used in fission reactors can only come to be due to supernovae. So I guess not from our sun, but another star.
- eru 5y agoNot fission nor geothermal nor tidal power, nor fusion, if it ever arrives. But most of the other ones. (You can say that some of them, like fission, rely on heavy metals produced sort-of in a star. But still that wasn't from our sun.)
- robocat 5y ago
- kwere 5y agonext "oil" payday