barney54

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by barney54 4y ago
Natural gas in pipelines is stored energy. A pile of coal at a coal plant is stored energy. Nuclear fuel roads are stored energy.
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Why?
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I don't understand the correlation between air quality and asthma. In the United States, asthma rates are way up. This article blames at least part of the increase on air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide. But nitrogen dioxide
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People who live on Indian Reservations are frequently really, really poor and likely couldn’t afford to stock up with that much wood beforehand.
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The problem with solar awnings is the cost. It's much more cost-effective to install solar on a field or an open area than a parking lot. Parking lot installations much more expensive because of the additional infrastructure needed.
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The United States is not actively antagonistic toward specific technology and is instead very pro-solar. There are a lot of support/incentives for solar, but not necessarily for this specific kind of technology.
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The United States is not behind in terms of R&D funding. I'm pretty sure the United States has spent more on solar R&D than any other nation and the United States has consistently led the world in solar technology. The United S
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The picture you linked to is where they added metro to into the island of a highway. They shouldn’t have built a subway, they should have created express lanes for express buses instead of these monster metro stops.
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To his point about watching his water consumption, the apartment building I lived in 20 years ago lost water (the water pump broke). We had to carry up all of the water we used to our fourth-floor apartment for six weeks. We were incredibly
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Why would you use Dopamine instead of Foobar 2000?
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Can anyone find a NYT article that is pro-tech?
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I loved this article. Sometimes we assume that as the price of copper and cobalt rise, that more supplies will come online and help drive down the cost. That is certainly true in the long run, but there are serious challenges in the short r
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The Metals for Your EV Are Stuck in a 30-Mile Traffic Jam(bloomberg.com)
6 points by barney54 4y ago|1 comments
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A lot more Asians at top universities.
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No. CO2 emissions continue to grow—just at a slower pace. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Energy-agency-CO2-emissi...
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When was the last time that one of these university PR press releases turned into a real product?
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Maybe, but not until the permitting gets fixed for small nuclear plants. It took NuScale over $1 billion dollars to get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to okay its design. And it hasn’t built an small reactor that is even operating yet.
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Interestingly, cold may kill more than heat (but it’s complicated) https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Ex...
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It’s the other way around, at least in Germany. Households pay more than industry for electricity. https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Germany/electricity_price...
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There are companies, such as Heliogen, that are working on the next generation of CSP with higher temperatures and the use of lower cost thermal storage. It will be interesting to see how their systems work at scale.
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The cost of land might to be a huge issue with deserts, but the cost of transmission is.
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Where is the evidence of suits by Big Oil? I didn’t see any evidence in the article.
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Big Oil is ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Aramco, Total, Chevron—companies of that magnitude. Regardless, Vermillion is the only oil company that sued anyone and did it a few years ago. Where’s the evidence of Big Oil currently suing?
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Despite the title, I didn’t see any examples of Big Oil suing countries to block climate action in the article. Did I miss it? Early in the article it talks about Vermillion, but they aren’t Big Oil.
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It is not valid to compare the levelized cost of non-dispatchable sources of generation like wind and solar and dispatachable sources of generation like coal and nuclear. It’s an apples to oranges comparison, unless you some storage costs
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But the weather and natural beauty is a big thing! I have this though every time I visit. California.
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Not necessarily. Yes, they are cheap, but most current solar installations use single axis trackers. They are simple and increase yield.
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Despite $6B for nuclear plants, two nuclear plants are still scheduled to close(eenews.net)
3 points by barney54 4y ago|0 comments
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I receive emails almost every day for various people with my same name in other parts of the US, the UK, and Australia. For ones that matter, like job interviews, I try to let people know they have the wrong email address.
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Visualizing All the Vacant Office Space in San Francisco(socketsite.com)
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