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What I've meant was mining on the wind mills themselves. So there would be no need of passing through the grid.
I heard that crypto mining hardware has to have decent-ish (80-90%) uptime to be profitable. That would make it infeasible to have it on standby waiting for excess energy on the grid.
As an aside, one of them burned last year: http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/08/new-vest... By the way, you can walk right up to them. They are very impressive up close.
Also killing birds and bats though....
The interesting question is what effect clean energy has to the usage of hydrocarbons. Will it bring reduce global demand or just reduce the price of energy. The good news is: CO2 emission intensity is going down globally and emissions per capita in US, China and EU28 are going down. The bad news are: Emissions per capita are still going up globally, and hydrocarbon usage and CO2 emissions are breaking records year a…
> it just moves them from the developed world to the developing world This is a really good point, clean energy seems to be a luxury at the moment. No one can blame poorer countries, they aren't all in a position to invest in renewables, for many of them it would be crippling, the argument that renewables is sometimes cheaper only works long term, and long term takes significan't up front investment, burning coal etc…
On a very small scale, that's why you see solar-powered flashlights being so popular in rural areas of the developing world. And my favorite charity (kickstart.org) is currently designing a solar-powered water pump, as a step up from their current human-powered water pumps.
Problem is that these are political markets not market markets. Denmark spent a lot of money on getting their windmill industry up and running and windmills still aren't solving the base problem as they aren't reliable for all sorts of weather. Furthermore, windmilss don't really scale well, Nuclear on the other hand which is both safer and more scalable and greener would change that but right now only the Chinese se…
It is not going to solve our energy crisis but there are virtually no negatives to building them now, if you have a coastline you can have zero subsidy clean energy in the next 5-10yrs.
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Also, I recall reading that if you run undersea cables with AC, the sea water sucks out energy from them.
Can’t tell if trolling or not. The cables have water barriers so the conductors + insulation remain quite dry.
EDIT: brandmeyer's comment explains it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16903431
The interesting question is what effect clean energy has to the usage of hydrocarbons. Will it bring reduce global demand or just reduce the price of energy. The good news is: CO2 emission intensity is going down globally and emissions per capita in US, China and EU28 are going down. The bad news are: Emissions per capita are still going up globally, and hydrocarbon usage and CO2 emissions are breaking records year a…
As a new farmer, this is good news. My target range for CO2 is 1200ppm. This means our future will be greener! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDgYLxp8Sg
The interesting question is what effect clean energy has to the usage of hydrocarbons. Will it bring reduce global demand or just reduce the price of energy. The good news is: CO2 emission intensity is going down globally and emissions per capita in US, China and EU28 are going down. The bad news are: Emissions per capita are still going up globally, and hydrocarbon usage and CO2 emissions are breaking records year a…
As a new farmer, this is good news. My target range for CO2 is 1200ppm. This means our future will be greener! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDgYLxp8Sg
As the production costs with windpower decrease due to the technological progress, the question of grid storage and grid interconnection becomes more pressing. E.g. in Germany, they frequently have days of negative energy prices, where producers need to pay to feed energy into the greed because of overproduction of energy on windy/sunny days [0](in German). Without storage and grid interconnection, there is only so m…
The future of mankind lies with nuclear power. I'm distressed by it not receiving as much attention as windmills.