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Look into the work of Tony Seba: renewable are on an exponential growth. Tesla Master plan 3 highlight the step needed to fully transition Bjorn Longburgh exp
by alfor 4y ago
Look into the work of Tony Seba: renewable are on an exponential growth.
Tesla Master plan 3 highlight the step needed to fully transition
Bjorn Longburgh explain in his book and interview what are the different priorities and costs associated with the different way we can do good in the world.
I am super into renewable, but climate change will not be a problem at the current speed of innovation. We should focus on making the poor richer so they then can care about the environment. We should also tell young people to have kids, that there is not too many people on the planet and we should be way more careful with the risks of nuclear war.
Not too long ago we were afraid of widespread famine in the 2000 and the return of Ice age, and probably many others thing.
- ericd 4y agoDoes he have a good answer for the problem of overgeneration during the summer months, and undergeneration in winter? If you run the numbers on battery energy density, cost, and what it takes to run an efficient heat pump, it seems clear that renewables alone aren’t quite a solution yet. I’d love to be wrong, though.
- alfor 4y agoI don’t know for Musk, for Seba the solution now is overgeneration: it’s more cost effective to have excess solar than to have enough batteries. The advantage is that you have period were you have free energy if a business find a way to use it. He think that as that become common more more business will find ways to take advantage of it: H2 generation, heat storage, steel/ciment, and other things we are yet to find. I came to the same conclusion when I installed solar on my motorhome, it’s was way more effective to install "too much" solar so that I have enough for the night of a gray and cold winter day. Otherwise I would had to pay 10X more in lithium batteries. In a summer sunny day I use a fraction of the power. hopefully with a large grid and many free agent and an efficient market the free energy will find uses.