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Oregon isn't much better
They tried to stop the construction of a powerplant that will generate power until the earths core stops being hot
killed nuclear infrastructure and also logging industry out of fucking nowhere
Clean power
Its the same people
Just different names
Its ths same all up the west coast
Although its also super trippy
Because all the big cities are super leftist and dictate policy but the largest swaths geographically are center right
Oregon is small enough the difference gives you whiplash
The big thing, near term, is to get as much LNG as possible to Asia. Development is very energy intensive and that's why they have those emissions. Every plant you move from coal to gas cuts the CO2 per KwH in half. More if it's combined cycle.
Africa is interesting. You have to worry because, again, development is energy intensive. But unlike most places they have great exposure on wind and solar most of the continent. Better they don't have as much grid so they don't have that up-front infrastructure investment. Solar panels etc make a lot more sense if nobody has run power lines to where you live yet.
put up giant forests of panels, tho, and you'll practically make the air above the continent sterile
all that reflected heat and radiation
unless we figure out a more absorbant, and ergo less-reflective medium
Oh I'm not talking about forests of panels. More like what people who live off the grid already do. Or small communities with no grid could have a local wind generator. I don't think they are good ways to power industry (we'll have to look for other solutions there) but if you are building from scratch and there is no existing grid solar is cheaper. Especially in that environment.
I mean like the Germans, like bloody idiots, invested billions in solar. It did jack shit because they are a temperate clime with lots of cloud cover and hills. The Serengeti? The Plateaus? You will get your maximum KwH per area places like that.
This site is great. Thanks to whomever it was above that posted an article.
She got better
Silly Germans, that solar will be useless when your Furher gets back from the moon and blots out the sun
They *literally* stuck it where the sun don't shine....
should have gone wind, would work nice with their VX
They did. With no significant impact on fossil fuel usage....
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/energy-issues/germany/graphics/DEELEC.jpg
I thought I once heard Germany's focusing on figuring out how fusion works. but that was years ago
funding may have been cut to support more 'new germans'
Well from the chart you can see that there has been an increase in nuclear *production* but that has been increased capacity rather than displacement of petroleum.
And there has been a decrease in net carbon output but again that's mostly due to NatGas and two cycle turbines.
the fuck is lignite
A form of coal
So hard coal is gone
I think the difference is mine comes from a site that tracks global energy production. And yours comes from an advocacy site that promotes 'journalism for the great energy transition'....
But hard coal isn't as plentiful anyways
The US keeps strategic reserves unmined
At a glance I would say they were using the capacity numbers for German solar. The capacity is great. If the sun shines on the panels. Which most of the time it does not.
if we could find a way to harness directionless kinetic energy, we could energize tectonically unstable regions
Or gravity weapons
You use gravity to accelerate dense material into megaton bombs
I meant harnessing incoming kinetic energy, not projecting it or, in fact, bending physical gravitons, which is not really anywhere near the field