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Nuclear. It's the only thing beyond fossil fuels. If we want to somehow retain our standards of living.

Side-note: a barrel of oil gives a fixed amount of gasoline and diesel fuel, and that's hard to change [1]. A given refinery could slightly change the amounts, but not much, and th…

The first article has wrong figures. "the skin of the aircraft (probably made of titanium) gets as hot as 12,000 degrees F during flight because of air friction." First, there's no…

This is also from a pro-wind blog ;)

In case you're interested, this[1] document is of great interest if you wish to understand how these offshore turbines perform empirically. I'll give you a hint: not very good. Any…

That doesn't mean it's a reasonable projet ;)

Hawking radiation is speculation AFAIK, there's no observation to back it up.

Even if you had the computing power AND if you were simulating your fusion reactor's plasma in realtime, while it's running AND you know/can predict the plasma instabilities in rea…

Most likely related: John L. Gustafson presenting "Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y With papers here: - UNUMS…

"The tyranny of verificationism impedes scientific progress. Let string theorists do their thing/string." This is a very dangerous path. Science without empiricism is religion. htt…

WolframAlpha?

There are some theories on variable cosmological constants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light

Topaz is of the same magnitude as this Tamil Nadu plant, in terms of "rated power". However, many people seem to miss that "rated power" does not equal "actual output". Please see …

Nothing happens at night, there's no electricity output. You need some kind of storage on the back-end if you want to store the day's surplus electricity. Molten salt or hydro work…

Not exactly, you can't do that kind of calculation. Solar panels work only in full sunlight, and only during the day. When there's cloud coverage, the electricity production goes d…

While I agree - people from western world live way over what is needed - there's an issue with demography also in Asia. Kaya's identity [1] shows that the factor P, global populati…

While by no means I mean to minimize this announcement, if the press was publishing an article every time a Coal plant opens in India, we would have an article every few days or so…

Side note: Are you familiar with Sweetscape's 010 Editor? Very cool stuff, although closed source.

Links to doc are 404.

The issue is that craftmanship means time & experience (experience like tens of years). Think compagnons. This is fading away since the end of WWII, and especially since all manufa…

Smoke & mirrors. Art Berman has shown that none of the Tight&Shale producers are/has been profitable. They are largely there because of credit/debt (which of course can't grow for …

Renewables depend on oil. You can't make renewables with renewables energy, because their overall EROI is insufficient to both maintain the current standard of life, and make them.…

Fossil fuels are the base subsidy. It's hard to see how a manufactured product will be cheaper than fosil fuels consumed on the spot (as coal is primarly a local consumption resour…