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That article from 2016 is not about the CSP project in Nevada (Crescent Dunes) but the one across the border in California (Ivanpah) that had the bird kills because it had no therm…

Lying down is best. Comfy, relaxing, best for brain

600 BC is hardly 'before (sic) prehistoric times'

It is rather ridiculous to fret about the very minor emissions of manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels compared to sticking with fossil fueled energy sources! We don't see …

if there were pylons already going to where the solar and wind farms are built then yes, this 'rarely used technique' of adding larger capacity wires to existing pylons would be th…

The earliest vaccines injected at tiny amount of the disease, from smallpox on. So she probably expected to feel like shit, and that's why she felt like shit. However the covid vac…

Good that Australia is not the only country in the world, indeed. In the US, there was a measurable change in death rates once Blue states (Democrats) got vaccinated by May of 2021…

This is incorrect. It is not for a few minutes! We are way way past that at this point. The renewable generation meeting the total demand is over most of the day. Because of solar …

People can only comfortably read a maximum of 17 words per line. Best is 12. That text should be in two columns.

We are headed for 20 MW now, so a wind farm with five 20 MW turbines is a typical size for many gas power plants; 100 MW. In the EU, there's testing facilities that are checking th…

It really doesn't seem like it could pencil out, as it carries only one blade at a time, that's three trips for each turbine - and most windfarms would have more than one. But I gu…

The energy use is the issue because fossil fuels supply the heat for the thermochemistry (like with most industrial processes). But direct solar heat could be used instead - this h…

Re 'Why these crap journals even exist is a mystery to me.' Don't journals make money by charging academics to read the whole paper?

His use of "he" or "his" research was a bit dated looking... More natural to say "they" presented a paper and "their" paper didn't pass muster or whatever

Yes, there's lots of houses in suburbs with empty bedrooms. If there was an incentive for boomers to rent rooms in their houses like in the 1920s. But that is risky for the boomers…

The Ports of Los Angeles require decarbonization, and so this is not required to go great distance, but rather to spend a day moving containers around at the port.

Distance isn't the only issue. Nobody needs that kind of power in a truck to get around in. But short haul and heavy duty like in a mine, this would be very handy.

I can see EV for next-gen mining equipment, the sort of behemoth that the wheels alone dwarf a man standing next to one - and still needded for mining new climate tech energy likel…

California runs on 100% renewables for 4.8 months each year in a sense too. It has 40% renewables last time I checked I think in 2019. If you assign that to what percent of the ann…