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And there were priests who pursued science as a passion. I think it was seen as a good secure job and had time for side projects.
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But it is not within your gift to control human nature or suppress politics. Or at least I hope its not. A good design/proposal/plan considers human factors. And energy production is not some science experiment where you can cont
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So for nuclear power to be successful you just have to change human nature and politics to secure long term investment. And do so in countries that cannot even figure out how to properly fund education.
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Arguably this kind of viewpoint can be particuarly interesting to this group. People are well placed to see some of the more worrying aspects of technology.
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And the bank stands to lose far more money than the company they have lent to who will just fold. In renewable energy it is actually common for the funding institutions to be paid a cut of the profits and to have no recourse to repossess as
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Surely the objective is reduction of CO2 emissions rather than low bills.
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Its maddening how software doesn't benefit anymore from fast local storage. We have massive inexpensive SSD's sitting empty whilst you wait for a tiny PDF to download.
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HVDC converter stations are expensive though. And you would need to have one every time you have a substation to directly replace an AC cable. It makes sense for longer distances.
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Or fast WIFI and delivery bikes/bots. People just want to play with their cell phone and drink coffee. My guess is that eventually there will be fewer but larger charging site. Built beside major routes and close to a big grid connec
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Nuclear needs for more specialist disciplines than turbine maintenance. The systems are more complex. And you have to deal with a wider range of hazards. All whilst having the worlds most onerous rules.
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In an open market nuclear (and wind/solar) would still operate 100% of the time. That is because the marginal cost of one extra unit of energy is trivial. They would sell energy even if it was not enough to cover the capital costs.
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Yes you often here this with nuclear advocates. Saying that grid scale battery storage is a pipe dream. The real defining fact about solar and battery storage is that it is very amenable to mass production and scaling. Small modular compo
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But less industrial than a lot of arable farming. Grass and wild flowers will grow perfectly well under solar panels, alongside sheep. And the break from production give the soil an opportunity to recover.
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And good tools can reduce the skill required to make the repair.
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I agree. Although do you think ERP as a discipline is actually successful in solving these kind of problems? It seems to be a field dogged by underperforming or failed systems.
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It helps establish where the habitat/range of the animal actually is. For animals that move around a lot that can be difficult. For example a group of bats may fly down a particular corridor to get to a feeding site. You can establi
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>> The dirty secret of renewables is that they are currently directly linked to natural gas peaker plants. This was obvious a decade ago, and still is just as true. My portfolio shows I was completely correct in this prediction. It is
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But you can do that with a more traditional car. A coupe can have a plenty of space.
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It is staggering. I live in the UK and we have been moving in that direction. We have lots of small city style cars. But they are never big enough to easily hold a newborn baby with its stroller (ironic when you consider how tiny babies
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I think there are more precise definitions, but it requires more understanding. You can talk about protecting native species and there are moral arguments for that. Although I am not sure how much that actually drives people. For many nat
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I was not betting on anything. Just explaining why poor efficiency may still be economically viable. I absolutely agree that we should bet on the battery industry. But there is a difference. With battery technology the cost of storing 1G
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But there comes a point where battery storage has all been used and prices go even higher. You sell at a x6 profit margin. And are able to sell at x3 profit margin for longer than the battery operators. And that assumes that 100% of the
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The focus on efficiency can be short sighted though. The whole point of storage is that the energy you sell is more expensive than the energy you buy. If the profit margin is high enough then you can afford to waste energy through ineffic
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And it is not really about "cost" anyway. It all hinges on the willingness of people with access to capital to take a risk. That could be a bank, large company, government etc. Renewables has managed to do that convincingly. Nu
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Or it will be used for interconnector exports, to power battery storage, hydrogen production and synthetic fuel production.
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And those personnel are really expensive.
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Postcode data is already freely available. You can even get coordinates of where the properties are. What is lacking is the actual addresses within a postcode.
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There is a price difference between the place you buy the electricity and the place you sell it. That pays for the debt that funded construction. As long as that price difference is high enough it makes financial sense.
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These kind of projects are getting proposed because the business case is painfully simple. Buy electricity cheap and sell it high. Its arbitrage. The price difference needs to be just enough to pay for the debt that funded construction.
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Earth observation is still growing. And it seems to be an area where countries want to have the own capability for national security and prestige reasons.

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