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by suster 5y ago
I'm not being obtuse - I still don't understand why this is important. Is 'ability to transport a lot of energy on a train' really key? Renewables have a completely different model for how they are distributed and how th
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by suster 5y ago
If your long-term goal is a maximum of renewables, there is a significant difference between nuclear and natural gas. Nuclear generation can't react to changes in demand very fast and so doesn't play well with large amounts of win
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by suster 5y ago
I have seen this argument about energy density before, I still don't understand it. Why is the density of energy generation so important?
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by suster 5y ago
They export cheap wind-generated power to Norway when the wind is blowing, and import it back for a higher price when it isn't. Norway has a lot of hydro which they used the revenues from North Sea oil to install. (Their geography and
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by suster 5y ago
Firstly the US was not a petroleum exporter at the time of the Iraq wars. Secondly, one take on the Iraq war was that it happened not to obtain fossil fuel resources, but rather to obtain control over them, and prevent them being exploited
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by suster 5y ago
Do you have an example of a specific scaling problem which applies to solar+hydrogen and probably can't easily be surmounted? Or is your argument just "We're not doing it yet, therefore it can never be done"?
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by suster 5y ago
If a) steel is more essential to society than burning natural gas and b) steel production is carbon-intensive, then an across-the-board carbon tax has two effects. 1. In the short term it makes steel more expensive. But because steel is ess
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by suster 5y ago
The set of people who visit a car forum is very different to the set of people who need to buy tires for their car. If you want to increase awareness of your innovation, you might want to target exactly those people who aren't car hobb