@11112011 don't do it you've got great tits
@11112011 https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hungary-and-Rosatom-push-ahead-on-Paks-II-nuclear
someone's got to keep the lights on
@11112011 15 years yeah, but unless you can find some serious batteries....
@11112011 25MW lel
@11112011 the problem remains - how do you match the grid load when these things drop off?
@11112011 that synchronisation fragilises the system in proportion to use of renewables
@11112011 it's not ideology it's electrical engineering
renewables (other than hydro) are volatile and you need alternatives when generation falls below consumption
Can confirm, we get negative spot prices sometimes. In Australia they have negative spot prices during the daily solar panel peak.
In New Zealand we use geothermal, rather than nuclear for the base load electricity.
Our geothermal plants produce about 20% of our electricity.
You could build geothermal plants in most countries that have hot springs or volcanoes.
Yeah, they are going to keep building it, out to 35% of generation. The hydro that's already been built will last for ages.
About 3/4 of the geothermal has been built in the last 25 years. They built the new ones when they understood what they were doing properly.
The first trial plant was built in the 1950s.
@skells @DazzaNZ @11112011 @dave "The industrial activity that expands relentlessly with developments in the natural sciences is basically a campaign to promote energy consumption. Its target has not been so much to boost energy production as to senselessly waste energy. As long as man continues to take the stance that he is 'developing' nature, the materials and resources of the earth will go on drying up." -Masanobu Fukuoka, The Natural Way of Farming, Natural Farming for a New Age
@skells @DazzaNZ @11112011 @dave Fukuoka, cont'd: "Burdened by growing self-contradictions, industrial activity will grind to a halt or undergo unyielding transformations that shall usher in drastic changes in political, economic, and social institutions.
Self-contradiction is most evident in the decline in energy efficiency. In his fascination with ever greater sources of energy, man has moved from the heat of the fireplace to electrical generation..."
@skells @DazzaNZ @11112011 @dave "But he closes his eyes to the fact that the efficiency of these sources (ratio of total energy input to total energy output) has worsened exponentially in the same order. Because he refuses to acknowledge this, internal contradiction continues to accumulate and will soon reach explosive levels."
Nicole Foss on renewables http://bit.ly/2rzS5Pq
@skells @11112011 @dave
I think they are more than a kilometre deep.
Also it is not just used for electricity. Factories and greenhouses use it.
In Taupo, you can see giant insulated stainless steel pipes across the farm land taking the steam to factories.
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/building-and-energy/energy-and-natural-resources/energy-generation-and-markets/geothermal-energy-generation/