There is a colossal difference between “the government CONTROLS the weather” and “the government participates in climate change”
There is a colossal difference between “the government CONTROLS the weather” and “the government participates in climate change”
Bigger screen with a constrained form factor. If you don’t need a bigger screen, you’re just not the target, but that doesn’t mean it’s totally useless.
Your notion of “decent” is certainly not the same as 99.99% of the population. Or you live in a very expensive place and have a very specific use of mountain bikes.
Then something is fishy with your install. Maybe something to do with the DNS or the Firefox version you’re using, or maybe just Debian.
The primary finding of the study asserts that wind and solar energy have the potential to generate a staggering 2,896 terawatt-hours (TWh) of energy annually.
Yes, and most of that will be produced during summer, where our needs are at their lowest, and will therefore be wasted. The problem with solar and wind has never been production potential.
The most popular sandwich in France is the Jambon-Beurre, which is just butter and ham
“Charcuterie is dead” posts a picture with a box containing at least 3 sorts of charcuterie
Gnome Shell has been first released in 2011.
Basically, we can move the times that we use most of our power to the times that power is easy to generate.
How?
For example, the typical risk period for a power grid is during winter nights, when people come home and turn on the heat, cook and do their chores, or relax watching their TVs or playing videogames. How can we postpone such a power usage to another time?
A bad mouth could argue that it wouldn’t make Marseille dirtier
It’s too expensive
Nuclear power isn’t expensive. It’s launching a cutting-edge industry with a lot of inertia and not giving it the time and means to pay for itself that’s expensive.
And don’t even get me started on the Levelized Cost of Energy. These studies give a big advantage to renewable energies, since they only take into account the cost of building, maintaining and dismantling a given energy plant.
That’s roughly 100% of the cost of a nuclear power plant, whereas most of the cost of solar and wind power will be found in the solutions that need to be put in place to compensate for their lack of controllability, such as redundant power plants, dams and other forms of storage of considerable size, which are therefore never counted in these cost estimates.
At present, we don’t even have the technical means to have enough storage to afford 100% wind + solar in a country, so we’re completely unable to estimate how much it would actually cost.
with less carbon-free energy in the end for the money spent and more fossil fuels being used as a consequence
The reality is exactly the opposite: France has been producing most of its electricity with nuclear power since the 70s and 80s, and has had its electricity almost entirely decarbonized since the 90s, for a total cost of less than 150 billion euros for the nuclear industry between 1960 and 2010, according to a report by the Cour des Comptes.
Germany, on the other hand, which has been anti-nuclear and pro-renewables for 20 years, with 40% RE, produces 9 times more carbon with its electricity mix.
And still produces nuclear waste.
Just develop batteries, hydrogen and the likes for storage
You can see the contradiction here: how can we claim that renewable energies are cheaper when we have yet to develop solutions to make them work on a national scale?
We’re still a long way from having the technology for batteries that can power entire countries for hours or days on end, and hydrogen means we’ll have to oversize our power plants several times over to make up for its inefficiency.
Thanks to French nuclear power, we have proof that it is possible to produce safe, inexpensive nuclear power that can be deployed in two decades. Almost all of France’s current nuclear fleet was built between 1970 and 1990, providing 70%-80% of French electricity production for almost 40 years, at a rate of 2 reactors completed per year at a cost of 1 billion per 1000MW unit.
We’re still waiting for a working example of a country that runs on wind and solar power without huge hydroelectric capacity or nuclear power for backup.
I can shit inside a car and make it unbearable for everyone, that does not make me the one who controls the car.