I do however find it challenging that you encourage centralized power generation.
I would point out that “windmills’ grind seeds - hence “mill”. You are referring to wind turbines.
Renewable energy from the wind and sun seems win-win as a natural and plentiful resource, and many would enjoy the revolution of wind sails, as we did as children watching them turn.
The technology of PVs are being continually developed and will reach a point where the components would be thoroughly recycled at end of life.
I was a little amused that you referred to Boeing as Boing. I do hope this observation doesn’t bounce back critically on your observations…
Oh god, another graduate of the Cinderella School of Energy. In the USA per household primary energy production is 26300 TWh/128M households = 563 kwh/day or 23.5 kw avg continuously year round. So tell us how you figure you can generated that much energy per household with your solar panels and wind turbines? Show us you calculations.
Vaclav Smil has written about the Four Pillars of Modern Civilization: Ammonia, Plastic, Steel & Cement. That's what keeps us alive. Now tell us how you figure on producing those essential elements with your warm sunshine & cool breezes.
And wind / solar are highly centralized energy production. I can't believe how these dimwits see some solar or wind site way out in the boonies somewhere and say: "Hey, look its decentralized". Yeah you have a 300MW wind or solar installation and a small town nearby that uses 1MW so that really works. Instead of having a power plant ADJACENT to its consumers, you have one way out in a rural area where giant transmission lines must carry that to the cities. That's NOT decentralized. That's energy centralized far, far from load centers in rural areas.
That most decentralized energy supplies that you can have are those based upon Small Modular Reactors or Methanol ( which can be both produced & consumed in a decentralized way).
Greatest respect to you and your presentations.
I do however find it challenging that you encourage centralized power generation.
I would point out that “windmills’ grind seeds - hence “mill”. You are referring to wind turbines.
Renewable energy from the wind and sun seems win-win as a natural and plentiful resource, and many would enjoy the revolution of wind sails, as we did as children watching them turn.
The technology of PVs are being continually developed and will reach a point where the components would be thoroughly recycled at end of life.
I was a little amused that you referred to Boeing as Boing. I do hope this observation doesn’t bounce back critically on your observations…
Oh god, another graduate of the Cinderella School of Energy. In the USA per household primary energy production is 26300 TWh/128M households = 563 kwh/day or 23.5 kw avg continuously year round. So tell us how you figure you can generated that much energy per household with your solar panels and wind turbines? Show us you calculations.
Vaclav Smil has written about the Four Pillars of Modern Civilization: Ammonia, Plastic, Steel & Cement. That's what keeps us alive. Now tell us how you figure on producing those essential elements with your warm sunshine & cool breezes.
And wind / solar are highly centralized energy production. I can't believe how these dimwits see some solar or wind site way out in the boonies somewhere and say: "Hey, look its decentralized". Yeah you have a 300MW wind or solar installation and a small town nearby that uses 1MW so that really works. Instead of having a power plant ADJACENT to its consumers, you have one way out in a rural area where giant transmission lines must carry that to the cities. That's NOT decentralized. That's energy centralized far, far from load centers in rural areas.
That most decentralized energy supplies that you can have are those based upon Small Modular Reactors or Methanol ( which can be both produced & consumed in a decentralized way).