In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels

Post by BLKNSLVR » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 3:56 AM UTC

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> What are you talking about? The (now twice dissolved) Coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party > How can the government be opposed to it, while also providing rebates to rooftop solar? I'm pretty sure one government put the incentives in place, whilst another didn't roll them back, but also significantly talked down anything renewable, whilst pulling stunts like bringing a lump of coal into parliament.…

The subsidies given to private individuals and business for roof top solar would have been better off used to build grid scale solar. You get more solar per dollar spent. Australia silent have around global average electricity costs, we should be a case study in providing the cheapest electricity, given we have the worlds largest known solar reserves (ha!), the worlds largest known deposit of uranium, and we export a…

Post by coryrc » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 3:58 AM UTC

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Grid-tied solar is fragile. If the grid is not nearly-perfect, it won't generate. It will not help society as a whole. If you personally have battery backup, that helps you personally and you should pay for it, just like you might pay extra to turn up the heat while I keep it lower to save money.

In Canada (or the US) the grid is reliable and so you can ignore when it isn't working. This doesn't apply everywhere in the world

Post by energy123 » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 5:45 AM UTC

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The consensus among Western defense and foreign policy types is that China will most likely invade Taiwan in 2027, relative to any other single year, conditional on them doing it at all.

This 2027 date is based off a misread from a speech from Xi that he himself has since distanced himself from. 2027 is just used by war mongers and natsec folks to bang the war drums to siphon more money into the US military industrial complex. Unlike Russia, China isn't stupid and they don't need a full scale invasion to take over Taiwan.

Post by holowoodman » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

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Well, actually, thermolysis for water occurs at 2200°C. Thermolysis of CO₂ starts at 1400°C, of CO at 3700°C. The melting point of iron is around 1500°C, similarly its oxides. So water as a product is actually more stable than CO₂, and doesn't undergo thermolysis at the relevant temperatures for smelting iron. Whereas when going the CO₂ route, there is the risk of producing relevant amounts of CO, which is not as des…

Can you provide some citation about CO2 themolysis? I found just one paper from China....

Post by DoctorOetker » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

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a lot of that energy could have been recuperated with a heat exchanger when the water is refreshed, also in laundry machines.

That's more or less what heat pump clothes dryers do. They draw in air, heat it, and then blow the humid air back over the cold side of the heat pump loop to condense it. They save tons of energy. I don't think there's anything similar for water (in clothes or dish washers) but the quantities might just be too small to bother with.