“The solar power producers during the day, and fossil legacy plants in the night.”
Thus is precisely the bottle neck I was referring to.
I created a space for people to make connections and learn from each other. I call it Grok.Town and plan to start up a Lemmy instance at that domain, but for now it’s a space on Matrix with a few rooms to chat and get to know one another. Check it out @ https://matrix.to/#/#groktown:matrix.org
“The solar power producers during the day, and fossil legacy plants in the night.”
Thus is precisely the bottle neck I was referring to.
Batteries are the bottleneck now that solar PV equipment is so cheap. I’m excited to see how ot plays out.
Rather than take a defeatist veiw from this line if thinking, it will do well for your mental health to first spend more time, energy and thoughts on things you can control. Not just things related to environmentalism, but broadly reduce energy, engagement and focus from the things you don’t have significant control over and direct them to those things you do have control. It’s good to get a broad picture and observe the world around you outside of your control in small doses, but it’s easy to over indulge in an unfocused survey of problems in the world, especially on social media. (I include Lemmy communities in the social media category).
Furthermore, when you do engage with these problems, do so with more narrow focus and in more depth with an eye towards understanding the level of impact the problem has and what organizations or policy positions you can support to amplify your limited influence over the issues that causee the problem. In this way you can mitigate the feelings of helplessness and sense of there being many existential and imminent problems you need to contend with but cannot remedy. You can turn seemingly untouchable solutions into real possibilities without overwhelming your emotional capacity by working with others.
I am not happy now.
By chance, sure.
Wikipedia has a great image of orientations on the dates of Saturn’s opposition from 2001 thru 2029 (copied below). It really shows what’s going on and the approximate timing of visibility of the rings as they change from a Northern to Southern view from Earth’s perspective. Between March and November of 2025 the rings will be in the least visible orientations.
How is it not? Energy storage for use later in a different location from where it was collected seems like the purpose of a battery to me.
Terraform is making the claim right now. By eliminating inverters and loss from long distance transmission lines there are opportunities to make solar installation that’s not near existing infrastructure to be economically more viable.
Aircraft and shipping would be two very important circumstances.
Because the battery tech you’re thinking about isn’t the most efficient in all cases. Using hydrocarbons as a battery can be more efficient depending on circumstances.
This seems to validate Terraform’s approach of synthesizing hydrocarbons from PV power sources where there’s more distance between the production of PV power and it’s use. I hope they can figure out methenol synthesis instead of methane for this purpose.
Unfortunately, part of capitalism is the entrenched interests that interfere with anything that doesn’t directly benefit themselves. So large solar installations like this are a big win over that resistance to new sources of power.
That’s an interesting observation, it’d be interesting to see what could be the reason why that pattern might hold in a proper survey. But it could just be chance that it was that way at that particular facility.
Keep talking with your psychiatrist.
They’re like a gas tank, right?
Tidal turbines are designed to be noisy enough to deter marine life but not so noisy that there are detrimental health and ecological effects. Not sure how successful this strategy is, but the scale of deployments is still small and more study and monitoring should be done before the scale makes big impacts from even small effects.
Here’s a blog post from an engineering firm that works on these issues:
https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/03/21/designing-tidal-turbines-are-safe-marine-life
Seems like it’s pretty much like any other surface in your kitchen, it requires regular cleaning.
Their arguments seem very week in context. It’s no wonder that ACK4Whales’ law suit was ruled against in court.
Ford recently announced their decision to use their facility built for the purpose of expanding their EV supply to instead manufacturer more ICE pick-up trucks.
I want to thank you for your reply. Hearing about someone like you and your attempt to improve your community and the world I the ways you can is so uplifting!
People are social (even the introverts) and the return on in person, deep social interaction is another reason it’s important to fight the allure of convenience of online media being ones primary and most influencial social interaction. I love that you’re doing it!