Green energy reality

[sam1wiseone]

[jennys_mn]

The reality of Green Energy?   I drive my Leaf for a penny and a quarter per mile.   A penny and a quarter.   Imagine that…..

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Jen

[Packard27]

Unless and until President Biden and his fellow Democrats can pass legislation that will effectively repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics (a.k.a. Law of Entropy), we will forever be condemned to chase the fashionable nonsense known as no cost, renewable energy.

Which isn't to say Joe and the gang will not certainly give it a try. Rest assured, with enough money, they certainly will.

TANSTAAFL

[sam1wiseone]

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@Packard27 wrote:

Unless and until President Biden and his fellow Democrats can pass legislation that will effectively repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics (a.k.a. Law of Entropy), we will forever be condemned to chase the fashionable nonsense known as no cost, renewable energy.

Which isn't to say Joe and the gang will not certainly give it a try. Rest assured, with enough money, they certainly will.

TANSTAAFL

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they repealed the rules of genetics that determine man and woman, at least they want laws that will make you act as if they did, so maybe they'll try.

[sdholloway56]

You’re assuming that fossil fuel fascists have repealed it.

EROEI declines each year on a finite resource that is just millions of years of stored solar energy with hydrocarbons as the carrier.

Which, BTW, fossil fuel fascists pretend couldn’t be a problem when you release a million years’ of sequestered carbon each year.

[sdholloway56]

Leaving the very real and urgent AGW aside there is the depletion question.

Thus it would be imperative to spend some of the last of that one time (or at least once per billion year) gift from God and invest it in something renewable that continuously captures the incoming energy of the sun and moon (solar, wind, tidal) on a continuous basis.

[sam1wiseone]

Can't work, waste of time and opportunity, try nukes.

[sdholloway56]

In fact PV’s phenomenal drop in cost has been the most revolutionary advance in power generation in a century.

But there is a storage problem. I think the larger solution to that will not be lithium based.

Nuke might be the best alternative for base load although I still wouldn’t take a $60M bribe to keep old, high cost plants skimming off of consumers’ bills.

[sdholloway56]

At current efficiencies a land area the size of KS can provide all the world’s energy needs.

[sam1wiseone]

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