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Making the case for solar power and a well made video that debunks the anti-solar propaganda.

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Brainonska511 said:
Yes, many Americans live in detached, single-family homes. But many don't. And about 35-40% of households don't own their own home.

And though NIMBYism is a problem for some things, it is something that can be crushed through legislative processes at higher levels of government.

We don't need to reinvent the wheel here by creating new ways for power supply and delivery.
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While people wait for the perfect solution. I say let's implement the good enough solution.

For renters, there is also a partial solution coming it is called balcony solar.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/balcony-solar-taking-state-legislatures-by-storm
 
Another agricultural use for solar that offers numerous benefits is farming under solar panels. Some are being developed that use a portion of the light spectrum and allow wavelength used in photosynthesis to pass through to the plants growing beneath. Another spaces the elevated arrays above capturing excess sunlight plants use evaporation to dissipate, This works especially well for shade loving crops reducing the need for irrigation by 50% according to information I have seem. Storm damage is zero whereas test fields in the adjacent areas suffer 100% loss. Under ideal growing conditions the yield may be 80% less and the loss of electrical generation doe to wider spacing is similar. The benefits are both food and electricity, crop security and yield reduction offset by the value of the power produced.

Are we not crippled in part by the economic interests of those who stand to lose from conversion to renewable sourced from greenhouse gas producing fuels. What does love of self tell you. Who wins in the end? Is it he who dies with the most toys or he who strove to express the do on earth as we would do in heaven. Like the stars in the sky seen as holes in a tent, how much of a hidden radiance will you allow to pass through.
 
Jaskalas said:
You didn't feel like mentioning the substance in your post?

Companies such as the California-based startup TS Conductor offer a promising solution. Their advanced transmission wires replace the steel core with carbon fiber, which is twice as strong, weighs 80 percent less, and barely sags when heated. 

This allows the carbon cores to support more tightly packed, flat trapezoidal 
aluminum wires, safely transmitting two to three times as much power as conventional lines.​

That's an interesting notion. Wonder how it handles outdoor weather over years.

I must say, it was difficult to get past a headline that is pimping coal and natural gas as "more reliable" and falsely presents renewables as only viable via "massive subsidizes". Those are the demonstratively false ideas and notions of MAGA Nazis and their oil barons.

And I can still only guess if carbon fiber is what you wanted to share from that.
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I provided a link that deals with issue of the obstacles we face in rapid conversion to massive solar and wind farms and the increasing urgency to do so based on the shutdown of local coal and gas generation especially during peek demand that threaten outages, problems exacerbated by a growing population and the increasing reliance on electricity over gas, i.e. electric cars etc.

Th turn a link that explains the problems into the notion the link is intended as a rational for the status quo, throw up your hands because the problems are too hard to fix, leaves me questioning why that thought occurred to you.


I posted the link specifically regarding the carbon core power lines. That was obviously the temporary fix I implied was available.
 
Moonbeam said:
I provided a link that deals with issue of the obstacles we face in rapid conversion to massive solar and wind farms and the increasing urgency to do so based on the shutdown of local coal and gas generation especially during peek demand that threaten outages, problems exacerbated by a growing population and the increasing reliance on electricity over gas, i.e. electric cars etc.

Th turn a link that explains the problems into the notion the link is intended as a rational for the status quo, throw up your hands because the problems are too hard to fix, leaves me questioning why that thought occurred to you.


I posted the link specifically regarding the carbon core power lines. That was obviously the temporary fix I implied was available.
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The weird thing to me is that when it involved increasing electricity because of shifting transportation technology from petroleum based on sources of energy to to electrification it was a impossible problem to solve. Now with AI and rapidly increasing energy consumption because of that, it moves from a unsolvable problem to a solvable problem.
 
IronWing said:
“Unsolvable” = “The profit margins aren’t as high as we would like.”
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I think it was more about trying to say that EV's would break the electrical grid so it was stupid to push for them. Any logic that tried to explain differently was dismissed as "fake news".
 
Pens1566 said:
I seem to recall something about the Bush admin (W) touting it at one point.
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Yes and switchgrass is also more difficult to make into Ethanol, so it was a trade-off. The other very reasonable method of making ethanol is to do sugar Ethanol. Much better energy trade off than corn ethanol.
 
Brovane said:
Yes and switchgrass is also more difficult to make into Ethanol, so it was a trade-off. The other very reasonable method of making ethanol is to do sugar Ethanol. Much better energy trade off than corn ethanol.
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Probably more sugar in sugar beets which you would think would translate into more ethanol. I guess they are afraid of a sugar shortage. Like we really need anything close to what we consume.
Edit: I found this article comparing sugar source for ethanol

What's the most energy-efficient crop source for ethanol?

Biofuel is the hot topic lately in the green blogosphere. There's legitimate dispute about the political and environmental wisdom of plant-based fuels, but at the very least everyone should be starting from a valid, shared set of numbers (oh, to dream). In an attempt to offer up such numbers...
grist.org grist.org
 
I my opinion energy is central to the creation of wealth. Since the Industrial Revolution that energy has predominately been filled by fossil fuels. The primary requirement for any form of a decent life in a world in which there is competition for resources is access to those resources. Demand for supply creates wealth. The world economy is an interconnected competitive relationship between suppliers and value adders. Stability and security of those relationships creates a profound motivation to preserve them. The Haves want to preserve their access and prevent others from disturbing it. This goes against anynorions of equality and fair play. Wining is assured by cunning and ruthlessness. That is inherent to the system and why curbing this monopolistic insanity is always uphill.

The evolutionary path of survival of the fittest can take many paths, from individual fitness that functioned primarily for billions of years, to inter and intraspecies cooperation. The later characterizes the reason the we are the apex species on the planet. We possess cooperative intelligence, a high functioning social group against the vagaries of life that cooperative intelligence can predict and mitigate and especially by the use of tools.

Now via civilization and social contract, the invention of social norms and laws, we have as an unfortunate consequence, made obsolete much of the dangers social cooperation afforded and think now more of ourselves as individuals and have turned our intelligence against each other in the absence of external threat.

Thus, thanks to the system and the fear of competitive failure it breeds, the evolution of the humanity within us has been stood on its head. We focus on personal advantage and have lost sight of how our personal success and survival is dependent on others. We are shielded by anonymity and individualistic perspective from the reality we can’t survive without others.
 
UNCjigga said:
I don’t care how good this video is—I can bet you $1000 that at least 100x more people have viewed this clip from ‘Landman’ despite the views count (look at how many times it’s been posted on YouTube over the past 18 months.)

And all these people watching and sharing will think Billy Bob’s character in ‘Landman’ is speaking facts. This is the problem with our society today. We thought the Internet would make the common man smarter—instead the common man made the Internet dumber.

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I like the show but I remember that particular clip when I was watching and I was thinking what fucking bullshit is this? Taylor Sheridan was thinking just like our orange shitgibbon when he wrote that part of the script
 
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