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Don't worry guys, peak oil is going to cut our emissions far faster than we could ever convince people to do voluntarily. Its just we've got another two decades of burning every last thing we can get our hands on to power through first.
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Buffer posted:Science journalism is almost uniformly horrible. I think because in Science there is a right answer(we may not know it, but there is one), and journalism isn't about presenting a right answer so much as it's about presenting a controversy or establishing a narrative.
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for frame of reference, "extremetech.com" is one of the worst offenders on the internet in taking optimistic grad student quotes and turning them into viral science-article sensations. honestly the fact that it wasted a few pages of this thread is like... how f'n gullible are people
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jesus loving christ this thread is on a 5 page loop
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Anosmoman posted:I guess we won't know until a few years time when it's up and running but how significant would it be if it actually works as claimed? for context, here's a chart from page 12 of this thing: http://refman.et-model.com/publications/1726/download/IRENA_201205_Electricity%20Storage%20and%20RE%20for%20Island%20Power.pdf?1349946053  Isentropic is claiming a $35/MWh ($0.035/kWh) LCOE, so its more expensive than pumped hydro or compressed, but cheaper than flow batteries. Isentropic also claims to be cheaper than pumped hydro though, there is probably room for disagreement on everybodys numbers. The key point from the article is: quote:1.5MW/6MWh energy storage device that will operate on a UK primary substation owned by Western Power Distribution (WPD) in the Midlands. It is hoped that once tested, it could be rolled out across the UK where there are approximately 5,000 substations with a suitable power range of between 12MW and 24MW This basically helps in two ways: - provides an extra ~10% capacity at the end of transmission lines without having to upgrade them - provides a buffer that will allow for a much greater % of overall capacity to come from intermittent renewables (wind/solar) without risking outages
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Excelsiortothemax posted:Is there anything being developed that takes the carbon out of the air? If C02 PPM keep going up, wouldn't it make sense to make something that removes it from the air? there is constant research, but nothing has broken through to commercialization here's two stories just from last week: http://www.greencarcongress.com/2014/12/20141204-tunims.html http://www.greencarcongress.com/2014/12/20141203-toshiba.html the navy has a system going for taking it out of seawater: http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2012/fueling-the-fleet-navy-looks-to-the-seas but, it works via having a spare nuke gen laying around
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Friendly Tumour posted:Yeah, but it's not a proposition that's ever going to be tenable to the voting public. The political divide that we're stuck with has two sides, neither of which is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. The right doesn't want to give up fossil fuels, the environmentalists don't want to give up their opposition to nuclear and GMO. imho popular/political opinion is basically a lagging indicator as resource depletion marches on (at whatever rate you believe), eroei drops, and more of the transportation workload shifts to the grid, its going to become a very simple case of build more nukes or enjoy the brownouts it will take very few consecutive months of brownouts, not even years, to flip popular opinion on nukes
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Yes nothing happened and it's all Arkane all the way down. ^ this but un-ironically
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see this, imho, is the *real* climate change denial on the internet: we should do something! millions will die, billions will suffer! irl: I don't want to upset this one undergrad teaching chump at this one school because I might not get as good a grade
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Jan 29, 2015 13:37
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ANIME AKBAR posted:What is this based on? I searched through the report and the only mention of variability basically handwaves furiously at it: variability is going to be fun, because we are totally not going to get the planning right (we never do). we are going to crash headlong into outages and brownouts, which perversely will drive more people to setup solar and get batteries. not because the economics will make a ton of sense, but because cattle stampede.
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first of all gently caress 80% of you for the last few pages about having children DoctorDilettante thank you for the thing about the volcano in 91 awhile back someone asked about book recommendations: Tropic of Chaos is really poorly written but to me was very informative about the reality of how much climate change is already impacting things *today*. for instance, three of the places that have already been worst hit by drought/erratic-weather are afghanistan/northern-pakistan, ethiopia/somalia, and yemen. spot the pattern?
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the only way capitalism survives is if it figures out a way to almost completely decouple from physical goods and labor at which point its just going to turn into some kind of live auction bidding/lottery system for your dope-iv
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