nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Craig Lawrence Jared Moore You're right. I'm wrong. Thank you for the correction.
What does 23% CF for solar mean? EIA: 'A capacity factor of 100% means a generating unit is operating all of the time.' eia.gov/todayinenergy/โฆ
It looks intended for baseload power.
Drew Felker Jesse Peltan nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Every rubber factory in England has a food factory within 500m. Rubber making has waste heat.
Making food needs heat!
Jesse Peltan nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Another challenge running CHP and waste heat systems is customers often want heat at different times of day/year from when they want power.
Low-frequency peak generators, produce low-frequency waste heat - not so useful for industry or home heating as base load generators.
Jesse Peltan nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) 'Waste' heat is only useable if taken from the generator at a usably high temperature, reducing its Carnot efficiency.
You tradeoff less power out of your turbine, in exchange for a usable heat supply.
Been done for 100 years in refineries, paper mills, ships, CHP, worldwide.
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Kingfisher & Wombat erm not sure if we should be happy or sad at this point hahahahaha
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nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Andrew Gelston The 35million would go to that fusion reactor (which
is an absurdly low number). No amount was specified
for solar, if any is ever allocated.
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Chris Duffy ๐๐๐ค๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐งฒ Dinorwig is in that chart!
I know it's not as simple as solar/wind providing instantaneous energy. But there's a big gap between cheap wind/solar and an effective grid.
Need to find someone to pay for storage that maybe gets dispatched once a year
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Courtney Milan ๐ฆ I hate mosquitoes as well, but they at least provide something to the food web. Tuberculosis, on the other hand.... I got nothing.
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Michael W. Twitty He gradually shifted after a friend introduced him to a school for Black children in 1758. In 1763 he wrote that any deficiency in Blacks was due to social structures, not nature. benjamin-franklin-history.org/slavery-abolitโฆ
Collin McLelland ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Duncan S. Campbell nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) cost of production which could be found as a function of electricity cost, GPU efficiency, difficulty and block awards.
So if energy price were to drop significantly, I think it would be bearish on BTC price.
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Duncan S. Campbell Not sure there are any. Ice storage an option for central plant buildings. Not going to hear about cogen anymore soon enough (and wouldnโt check net zero box anyway). Heat pump (I think it is?) building like this must be banking on good controls and little else.
Collin McLelland ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Duncan S. Campbell nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) The only adding security would come from miners never needing to be retired, which is somewhat marginal
Collin McLelland ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Duncan S. Campbell nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) So increase hash would increase difficulty which maintains ~10 minute blocks and doesn't restrict cumulative supply over time.
It does distribute block awards (BTC) among a larger pool of miners, which would create a more competitive market and force BTC toward the marginal
Collin McLelland ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Duncan S. Campbell nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Great explanation overall but I believe #3 above is incorrect and makes the bullish claim questionable.
Difficulty ensures block time of around ~10 minutes, so Blocks/Time and BTC/time are relatively fixed and the network solves for difficulty given hash.
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Chris Duffy ๐๐๐ค๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ ๐งฒ I guess the big issue is that anything that's filling the last few percent of renewables isn't being switched on often.
Any thought on hydrogen for storage? H2 production has built in demand from industry. The low round trip efficiency isn't helpful for electricity tho
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Jesse D. Jenkins '90%' is a rather bold claim that doesn't hold up on a world wide examination
nebulousmenace (Sandy B.) Jigar Shah Dr Christopher T M Clack, PhD Bernie Sanders Wouldn't that make all thermal plants 'water'? The only difference is what the heat originates from - they all use water as the carrier.