Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reservoirs emit a lot of CO2 and methane. Not sure about that.
How much per watt is that "a lot" compared to others? Source?
A valid question for which I don't have an answer.
Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
301–305 of 305 posts
Re: Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
#302People should never forget that green energry is not 100% green and embrace minimalism
Ah, right. If only we all would have embraced minimalism from the very start! There would be no need for these pesky warm houses, abundant food, or relatively cheap medicine.
We also got forever chemicals, worst air quality and food layed with pesticides.
Re: Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CR?wind=false&solar=fals... (Electricitymap.org: Costa Rica) 2.36GW of total hydro generating capacity, 595MW of wind, and 1.64GW of geothermal, as well as interconnectors with Panama and Nicaragua to export excess renewables generation (or import when in nation generation isn't meeting consumption). With CR's favorable geography for hydro, it'd make a lot of sense for central amer…
> import when in nation generation isn't meeting consumption When people say "it's fiction" I think this is a lot of what they mean. If a location is net 100% renewable, say, someone who is 100% solar, so they generate lots of excess in the daytime, but, consume lots on cloudy days and at night and we assume that imported power is very dirty, they might be a net 100% renewable but ultimately they are consuming pollut…
No, that isn't what I meant.
Costa Rica does not run 100% on renewables. It's literally and simply a media half-baked feel good fiction.
They still have gas cars, diesel busses, diesel generators, &c.
They still emit tons and tons of carbon. They currently emit 1.64 metric tons per person, more than twice what their neighbors in Nicaragua do.
They're carbon neutral in the greasy, lawyer, "well technically we meant this" way that you should never, ever take seriously.
A Costa Rican has about 1/7 the emissions of an American.
I know it's lovely to pretend, but let's come back to the real world here. These things are easy to look up
.
> I would love to see that figure (gross import %)
Then look it up
Re: Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a complete fiction, if you bother to look
Links to sources would go a long way to helping your case. "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens.
> Links to sources would go a long way to helping your case.
Anyone who would actually listen looked it up when I said it, and learned something.
The redditors demanded a field guide, and got nothing.
Re: Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flywheels are a pretty good solution for ride-through of brownouts. Fairly compact and instantly available.
Where are they deployed at scale?
Literally everywhere. They're standard issue.
The Level3 building in San Diego had a two story iron flywheel that got loose and cut its way through the highway.
They are by far the most common kind of energy storage on Earth. Even in your car, which has both.
https://www.10news.com/news/11k-pound-flywheel-caused-poway-...