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Spoiler images are showing up already, go fig. This is going to be a very sad chapter it looks like.
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Fabricated posted:Spoiler images are showing up already, go fig.
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Kyte posted:Transmission is an issue too, y'know. let me just start by telling you the fun tidbit that our usage of nuclear fuel can best be described as licking the whipped cream off of a milkshake and throwing the rest of it away, because nobody wants to bother doing fuel recycling.
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Nov 23, 2017 04:22
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Paracelsus posted:On one day with a good wind, yes. A lot of the time they have to fire up coal power plants because there isn't enough wind and/or sun for renewables to meet demand. That's moving the goalposts. You wanted to know what country had enormous excesses of energy that they could provide to those that are short on it. Germany is one of them, so much to the point that they have accelerated plans to dismantle their nuclear power plants ahead of schedule. Saudi Arabia, if it built up its capacity even more, could start selling electricity instead of oil, though that would require massive high-voltage grid buildouts. And Mexico now can get solar power more cheaply than Saudi Arabia. In fact, according to a professor from UC Berkeley named Mehram Moalem does this math: https://www.quora.com/Could-the-wor...r/Mehran-Moalem quote:The total world energy usage (coal+oil+hydroelectric+nuclear+renewable) in 2015 was 13,000 Million Ton Oil Equivalent (13,000 MTOE) - see World Energy Consumption & Stats. This translates to 17.3 Terawatts continuous power during the year. Therefore, in support of Mordaedil's claim, yes, we produce more power than we can possibly use, on a global scale. In the most absolute reductive terms: Too much supply drives the price down, and that's why electricty is 1.7 cents/kWh in Mexico. Now we just gotta figure out how to store it so that we can stop using consumables whenever generation and consumption fall out of equilibrium.
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Fabricated posted:Spoiler images are showing up already, go fig. Link the images my dude, I want to be spoiled.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:05
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Say Nothing posted:He went from an emotionally stunted man-child to a psycho super-villain in one chapter. You say that as if there's a significant gap between the two. SwissArmyDruid posted:*energy stuff* Also aren't we at the point where nearly every building material (roofing, glass, sidings, driveways) has an solar power generating equivalent? So people could replace their roof tiles and windows with solar generating ones and have basically all the power they'd ever need.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:11
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Yes. However, there are still ultimately places where solar power makes more sense than other places. Higher latitudes, for example, are poor locations for solar power. Between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, where the sun can shine directly overhead, and closer to the equator, solar panels can achieve greater than the 25% efficiency rating that's thrown around, since that 25% is not a real-world scenario number, but a minimum average based on all reasonable latitudes that they could be installed on earth. More benefits provided by solar panels: They combat urban heat islands created by metropolitan areas, by outright absorbing sunlight into electricity, instead of reflecting, absorbing, and re-radiating it back out as the sun goes down. That's not to say they don't have their problems. Solar panels will interrupt any sunlight from getting to whatever's underneath, and while this might be good in an urban environment (think wide fields of solar panels making lots and lots of shade for people to park underneath in parking lots) they can tamper with natural environments. In fact, solar salt towers run the risk of making birds that fly into the cone-shaped area formed by the tower and the various reflector mirrors.... quite crispy. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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Nov 23, 2017 06:27
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Yeah, I wasn't trying to make the point that "we've solved energy, except the government keeps the little guy down", there's very much a matter of transporting and a matter of tariffs. For instance Norway produces so much excess energy from water-power, that it pretty much has to sell most of it to other countries, and they could technically provide it for free to the entire country, but it doesn't work out that way. I reckon power here is still fairly cheap compared to other places. Meanwhile other products here costs about an arm and a leg.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:36
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Which of the students in Class 1A would be best suited for creating infinite energy for the benefit of humanity? Denki is the most direct choice, as he literally makes electricity. He has a time limit on how long he can use his ability before he turns stupid, though. Todoroki is the most obvious choice - plenty of things you can do with at-will thermal / heat generation. Katsuki can make explosions, but it's a little harder to harness that for energy creation. Ochako can cancel gravity on heavy objects, let it float, and then return the gravity and let it drop down. This could be used on some kind of turbine. Momo can convert food calories to petroleum, but it's not clear whether there's an energy loss during the conversion or if she's able to do it on a 1:1 or better ratio.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:41
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Mordaedil posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to make the point that "we've solved energy, except the government keeps the little guy down", there's very much a matter of transporting and a matter of tariffs. Yes. Similarly, it may be interesting to note that a group of investors spearheaded by Masayoshi Son (president of Softbank, which owns Sprint) are working on creating something called the Asia Super Grid, which will span China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, in order to more efficiently transmit electricity from renewable sources around the Asian continent. 
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Nov 23, 2017 06:45
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How the hell did the thread even get onto this tangent?
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Nov 23, 2017 06:50
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Shigaraki's dumb for holding heroes to an unrealistic standard of being able to save everyone, everywhere, without regard for their own personal well-being. Because by following that logic, the best thing that Superman could do for humanity would be to just turn a crank and create unlimited free power for the world. Which we will eventually get to on our own anyways, we just need to figure out storage and overhaul transmission.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:55
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SwissArmyDruid posted:However, there are still ultimately places where solar power makes more sense than other places. True, but there's still wind and tidal power when solar isn't the ideal solution for a given area. Solar is just every scientist's favourite because it'll work in space.
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Nov 23, 2017 06:56
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Also, geothermal, the 'sci-fi wasteland' option.
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Nov 23, 2017 07:43
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My Hero Academia Manga: This thread is about renewable energy sources now.
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Nov 23, 2017 16:12
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Full korean raws are out. MS releasing MHA last as they generally do.
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Nov 23, 2017 19:42
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There is no possibility of us making anything even approaching a majority of our electricity with renewable resources with our current level of technology. It remains to be seen if we can do it in the future but at the moment it is a pipe dream.
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Nov 23, 2017 19:53
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Nov 23, 2017 19:59
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Tollymain posted:according to who Pretty much everybody? As long as power storage and transfer are an issue you need to have power available where and when it is needed. Nobody wants to run out of electricity in the winter when it's not sunny and not windy. Edit: Don't take this as a pessimistic stance. Energy tech is evolving really rapidly so you never know if we can get some practical solutions to that. Andrast fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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Nov 23, 2017 20:04
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fill in the gaps with nuclear power, its safer and less radioactive than coal
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Nov 23, 2017 20:12
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Tollymain posted:fill in the gaps with nuclear power, its safer and less radioactive than coal Sure. Nuclear is by far the best option in situations that can't filled with renewables. If/When renewable technology develops enough you can shut them down.
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Andrast posted:There is no possibility of us making anything even approaching a majority of our electricity with renewable resources with our current level of technology. It would take a combination of mass local storage (like the Tesla PowerWall and the massive battery installations like the one just completed in Australia for the bet), replacing the creaky existing power transmission system with an HVDC one and simply spending a ton of money on solar and wind farms (which is limited by where it makes financial sense rather than technical feasibility) but that would actually be enough to fulfill power needs. We have both the technology and the raw materials to do it; it's simply not yet cost effective, especially with cheap natural gas. In the long term, this will eventually happen although the USA will likely cling to the existing crumbling infrastructure like how it's basically the only country still using imperial units. China, of course, can afford to (and has the politic will to) sink money now to move towards this in order to reap the benefits in the long term; they have to do this because they have so many people and the existing pollution is that bad. ChronoReverse fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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ChronoReverse posted:In the long term, this will eventually happen although the USA will likely cling to the existing crumbling infrastructure like how it's basically the only country still using imperial units. China, of course, can afford to (and has the politic will to) sink money now to move towards this in order to reap the benefits in the long term; they have to do this because they have so many people and the existing pollution is that bad. They also really want to keep their economy going so massive infrastructural investments just make sense for them.
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Chapters out lets stop talking about this stupid topic. http://readms.net/r/my_hero_academia/161/4724/1
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Nov 23, 2017 20:58
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Nov 23, 2017 21:03
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Everything went as expected except All Might not telling his BF that he loves him
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Nov 23, 2017 21:04
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F in pieces. I'm a mummy.
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I'm legitimately surprised.
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I'm a mummy. Kirishima is fantastic. Also that was a really well done chapter.
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Nov 23, 2017 21:13
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the ole 2 week internship before he kicks the bucket?
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So basically it takes a lot of people working towards the same goal to change Nighteye's prediction, one person can't do it alone. Also RIP
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I also think that puts to rest the idea the heroes might try to use Emi. But I was not expecting that Nighteye would die, I absolutely expected they would rewind on that or Mirio's Quirk. Also I binged this series in 2 days after relentlessly slagging it off to a friend who kept trying to push me to watch it. Turns out it's extremely my poo poo, who knew?
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Welcome to the Arguing About Superhero Physics thread. Third season of the anime will be in April, and the first two are absolutely fantastic.
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Kild posted:the ole 2 week internship before he kicks the bucket? Deku has terrible luck with mentors. At least Gran Torino only got fired. Kirishima continues to be fantastic.
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My Hero Academia continuing to break the shounen mold.
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At this point, he's going through more father figures than Harry Potter.
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Man that fell flat for me.
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Oh Snapple! posted:Man that fell flat for me. It fell flat for me until Mirio showed up, then I admittedly felt really sad reading it.
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*plinkett voice* hey everybody it's Midoriya, everyone who teaches him gets maimed or dies! Who wants to teach him? Step right up!
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