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11-23-2012, 07:34 PM | #1 |
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Can we please move to renewable resources? JFC.
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11-23-2012, 08:24 PM | #2 |
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11-23-2012, 08:34 PM | #3 |
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This, clearly, is another one of those delineating, partisan issues. There could be double blind studies coming out with 90% of the population in a fracking area coming down with cancer, and a certain group of people would say "treehugger pussies! You want to send us back to the dark ages?" And another group would say, even if the fuel source was the perfect one, "OMG! It's the death! Run from Saruman!!!" Sad really.
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11-23-2012, 09:24 PM | #4 |
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I truly believe that my generation is going to be the one to stand up and put an end to the issues being posed by our reliance on combustible, non-renewable fuels as our energy sources.
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11-23-2012, 10:17 PM | #6 | |
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Electricity has to be generated the instant there is demand for it. If there is demand when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing, it cannot be met. We need to develop electrical storage technologies and smart grid to increase renewable usage above a certain fraction. Plus we need better grid infrastructure. All this is under development, but it is some time off. Natural gas is far, far better than coal in the meantime. |
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11-25-2012, 11:09 AM | #8 |
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I'm only familiar with reservoirs being applied on a commercial scale for electrical power storage presently. I think there are relatively few new geographical locations that can support that technology. All of the others you mentioned need to be developed and demonstrated at commercial scale as I mentioned in my post. Of the options listed, it seems liquefied hydrogen might have the best potential at large scale. I think we will eventually get there, but if we had the solar and wind capability today, we would not have the storage and infrastructure in place to do away with fossil fuels for some time.
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11-23-2012, 10:23 PM | #9 |
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I guess I'm going to have to move forward with inventing cold fusion. It's really the only reasonable solution to the energy problems facing humanity. I've been putting it off, but I suppose I need to go ahead get it done.
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11-23-2012, 10:51 PM | #10 |
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yeah! get er done, mr. fax!!!
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11-24-2012, 12:34 AM | #11 |
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Okay. Step one is completed, Mr. go bowe. I made a bunch of ice in the ice maker. In fact, the little container thing is overflowing with little half-moons of ice.
Now that that's done, I am already half-way to cold fusion. I just need to find something to fuse. I'll keep you posted. FAX |
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11-24-2012, 12:54 AM | #13 |
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If there was a way to extract energy from fapping, then the world's energy problems would truly be solved.
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11-24-2012, 02:24 AM | #14 |
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11-24-2012, 07:38 AM | #15 |
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