tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post8141085644910241792..comments2024-03-24T00:14:28.448-07:00Comments on SunWeb: Electrical constraint and inequalityJohn Weber http://www.blogger.com/profile/18104568019314685460noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-46692715740570540652015-12-02T22:27:53.541-08:002015-12-02T22:27:53.541-08:00The outlook for renewable energy for the current f...The outlook for <a href="http://www.re-port.in/" rel="nofollow">renewable energy</a> for the current fiscal appears to be bright.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01608745699950537756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-3502478199211623302015-11-24T14:31:40.119-08:002015-11-24T14:31:40.119-08:00Hey you haven't posted for a bit, you okay? :)...Hey you haven't posted for a bit, you okay? :) I enjoy your blogs as you deliver realism to our dismal reality. Also found this recently which also confirms your positions too http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/ef375b5a1ba9d815b09181410dde3cfa.htm , it admits, beyond China, the reality that renewable production is done by fossil fuels.Vorstroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17815740456243262738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-76528816013540245042015-09-29T14:30:03.577-07:002015-09-29T14:30:03.577-07:00The sad reality is that 99.999% of the developed w...The sad reality is that 99.999% of the developed world do not care where their electricity comes from, as long as it's there 24/7, on demand. Why else do we accept 2 to 3 million premature deaths per annum from burning fossil fuels. It can only be described as "macabre indifference" (Google it).<br /><br />"...The gross inequality globally..." can be overcome because a proven technology exists to supply all of the [emission-free] energy humanity can possibly use, from existing fuel sources for many hundreds of years - or at least until fusion power is a reality.<br /><br />The technology is that of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR). One of these reactor was de-funded in 1994, after 30 successful years of generating electricity.<br /><br />It demonstrated inherent safety, whereby the reactor shut itself down according to the laws of physics, without human intervention under experimental accident conditions like those experienced at TMI and Fukushima.<br /><br />It burned legacy nuclear waste such as plutonium as fuel and this most precious energy resource can - as was previously stated - provide energy to all of humanity, at developed world standards for many centuries.<br /><br />All means electricity and process heat, carbon-neutral liquid fuels for all of our transport needs and carbon-neutral fertiliser feedstock to feed the world. <br /><br />The minuscule waste stream left behind by these reactors, decays to background radiation levels in only 300 years - easily, cheaply and safely stored, until it's as safe as the ground beneath your feet.<br /><br />The real problem to occupy the minds of 'thinkers' is not that of wondering what we can do without, but how to educate short-sighted politicians (with a one or two term attention span) and anti nuclear media moguls (rich from the bountiful headline fruits of nuclear power) that a technology is in place now that could be rapidly rolled out for the benefit of all.<br /><br />There's a stack of great videos on this technology, if you just punch in: "integral fast reactor" and listen to the people who were there and did it all. Adam Antatheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11577346163046837387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-89279917971376940202015-08-01T03:24:02.982-07:002015-08-01T03:24:02.982-07:00Guilem - We agree. thank you for the comment.Guilem - We agree. thank you for the comment.John Weber https://www.blogger.com/profile/18104568019314685460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728901504726161181.post-85397704761248903132015-07-31T00:55:44.612-07:002015-07-31T00:55:44.612-07:00Hi, John:
The biggest lesson I've learnt from...Hi, John:<br /><br />The biggest lesson I've learnt from Eastern Island, is that sustainability is not an energy or technology issue. Its a culture, society, human behaviour question.<br /><br />PV is the most BAU of all the so called (mileadingly) renewables. Why this persistence in PV when it is, by far, the worst performer (and there are many numbers out there, check Pedro Prieto and Charles Hall book on PV's EROEI)?<br /><br />My personal and biased believe is quite filosphic: we create an 'artificial leave' as God creted the natural ones, that give us the most (over)valuated kind of energy, the most technical and 'human' one, electricity.<br /><br />Thus PV, in fact, is an act of our divinity. Pure human egotism, hedonism.gplanisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265312869141502689noreply@blogger.com