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Old 09-13-2016, 12:47 PM
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Yes, and clean coal too.
If only.
I don't know that is even possible, especially on an industrial scale.

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If only.
I don't know that is even possible, especially on an industrial scale.

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Both safe nukes and clean coal are chimeras. And both produce radioactive waste.
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Increased use of solar power is going to increase available energy in the warm southern states. Besides it is a lot easier to scrub waste gases emanating in a power plant than it is to treat unburnt hydrocarbons from tail pipes.

As to nuclear energy, I do not see this on the horizon in the near future due to politics. Three Mile Island, Yucca Mountain, etc. are still in recent memory.

I actually wanted to specialize in nuclear engineering and coal gasification but even back then (70's), these technologies had lost their luster.
Storing renewable electric reserve is a major challenge to the concept.
I don't know where we presently stand on competitive renewable beyond hydro.

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Storing renewable electric reserve is a major challenge to the concept.
I don't know where we presently stand on competitive renewable beyond hydro.

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Home storage technology is being developed rapidly by Tesla, probably to develop an emerging market for their new battery behemoth. Almost half the homes in my immediate neighborhood sport solar panels and this could be a viable option for new construction.

Every electric/electronic traffic sign I see are all solar powered here, not the traffic lights.
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Denmark has had a negative carbon impact for a few years now with no talk of bankruptcy. Too bad we are too corrupt to use them for a model. Applies Canada's health care too.


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Old 09-13-2016, 01:27 PM
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Home storage technology is being developed rapidly by Tesla, probably to develop an emerging market for their new battery behemoth. Almost half the homes in my immediate neighborhood sport solar panels and this could be a viable option for new construction.

Every electric/electronic traffic sign I see are all solar powered here, not the traffic lights.
Home /site reserve storage would certainly be one eventual reservoir for the overage. I suppose local substations of storage could work where site storage isn't practical.
At the present, lithium storage cells are the standard. What is the ecological cost of producing and recycling them compared to their benefits?

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We need safe nuke power and a more robust grid to support the generalized use of electric vehicles. The enviremental ramifications must be included in consideration.

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We have safe nuuclear power juust ask Ontario Hydro (who is now mostly nukes)
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There was talk years back about liquid salt energy storage, what happened to that?
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There was talk years back about liquid salt energy storage, what happened to that?
Dunno, that's industrial large scale technology, Afaik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therma...ge?wprov=sfla1


Solar steam power;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpa...ty?wprov=sfla1
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By the way, "Cali" is what foreigners call California. We don't and we don't like it much.
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