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You can store months worth of hydrogen from electrolysis too.
You can't really store bulk hydrogen nearly as easily as natural gas, liquid fossil fuels, or coal. Hydrogen is less volumetrically efficient, leaks out faster, and causes embrittlement in common alloys.
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You can store months worth of hydrogen from electrolysis too.
The way I interpret your claim is: that not only is it feasible in regard to the technology being available, but also that it is economically feasible _and_ the currently existing infrastructure does not need to be redone differently from scratch but can instead be augmented/upgraded to allow storage of months worth of hydrogen. I don't think that all these are true. Yes, the technology definitely exists. But as far…
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Natural gas is really hard to displace here, and won't happen until it becomes and stays expensive. It may now be above that price level in Europe, but it has to stay there to enable the capital investment in large scale green hydrogen production.
Yet the condition you claim will give rise to widespread adoption of energy storage already exist in Hawaii: fossil fuels have to be imported making it expensive, and daytime energy prices regularly go negative due to widespread solar adopt. These conditions have existed for years. Yet people aren't storing and reselling this energy. Why not? If hydrogen storage really costs only $1/KWh then a company can reclaim the…
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You are denying the conquest of the sovereign nation of Poland in World War II?
Conquest by whom? Certainly not by USSR. By the time USSR took their territories back - are you still forgetting, that Poland had conquered their territories mere 20 years earlier? - Poland didn't exist anymore and the Polish government was in exile in Romania. There was nothing to conquest. USSR took back what was taken from them. And let's not forget that Pilsudski government, while it lasted, was fascist, just lik…
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Conquest by whom? Certainly not by USSR. By the time USSR took their territories back - are you still forgetting, that Poland had conquered their territories mere 20 years earlier? - Poland didn't exist anymore and the Polish government was in exile in Romania. There was nothing to conquest. USSR took back what was taken from them. And let's not forget that Pilsudski government, while it lasted, was fascist, just lik…
Your revisionism game is strong, pal.
Seriously, go read some books about WW2 and stop making fool of yourself in the public.
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Batteries are not supposed to solve the large scale storage problem. They're best at solving the small scale storage problem. Recently they solved the problem of small scale storage on wheels. > If battery technology improves to the extent that it becomes viable for large scale storage, then wind and solar can become our main source of energy. Batteries are not the only way of storing electricity.
First thought I had here was hydroelectric storage.
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French generation is ~70% nuclear (10% wind/solar) and German is ~10% (~40% wind/solar). Yet their prices track each other closely. So I think this explanation is too simplistic. Possibly there are large interconnects between the French and German grids levelling out wholesale prices, but my assumption is that they cannot carry enough power for this imagined scenario where nuclear makes a big difference.
It will go down to 0% in Germany in several months. Germany is shutting down its last six nuclear power plants and no new ones can be built. Italy, Switzerland and Belgium also want to shut down their nuclear power plants. Shameful, unscientific public opinion in Western Europe despite more people realizing the danger of global warming.
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Your revisionism game is strong, pal.
Said by the guy who claimed that USSR started WW2. Seriously, go read some books about WW2 and stop making fool of yourself in the public.
September 1: Germany invaded Poland
September 17: USSR invades Poland.
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There’s only so many dollars that can be spent on energy infrastructure. A dollar spent today on wind and solar gets you a megawatt next year. A dollar spent today on nuclear gets you 100 megawatts, but in a decade. Nobody wants to spend $2.
Not spending the $2 is the real problem. Getting the $2 in the first place isn't an issue if you have a healthy tax system. If you don't have a healthy tax system then that is the real problem. Not energy production.
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> There's nothing special or magic about nuclear. Apart from the technology, safety profile and generally being the cleanest source of energy ever discovered. And being able to stockpile enormous amounts of energy in a small heap if necessary ^^. And if we could just convince people to accept it only causing say, half as much damage as coal it would be ridiculously cheap too. These appallingly high safety standards a…
> ... appallingly high safety standards are expensive. Not an expert on probability/statistics ... but wouldn't lower safety standards have meant, not 1 Tschernobyl and 1 Fukushima but most probably like say 10 such events in the last 30 years? Yeah no, something tells me that having lower than "appallingly high safety standards" isn't a deal I'd want. Not at all.
Arguably the accident wasn't due to lax rules, but rather to lack of observance. The rules weren't followed. If that argument is correct, then the key isn't to make the rules stricter or looser, but rather to change the rules and/or environment to eliminate violations. Thus, IMO it's not a statistics problem, but rather a matter of how to design rules and the organisations to which the rules apply.
Germany, too, failed at designing rules for nuclear power: All of the nuclear operators disposed of contaminated waste without permission and without keeping records. How much? Probably not very much (or else it wouldn't have gone on for as long as it did), but there are no records.
Germany and Japan are good at rules. If those two failed, this task can't be a simple one.