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.
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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.
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
Their arguments seem very week in context. It’s no wonder that ACK4Whales’ law suit was ruled against in court.
That’s an exercise for the reader
The sodium used is part of a compound and not pure sodium. Sodium ion batteries have been shown to be less susceptible to explosions/thermal runaway.
I’m unfamiliar with that.
The research they’re reporting on hasn’t been shown to others yet. The researcers carried out an analysis of patent data.
On 19.3 it seems to show the Cyrillic text in the preview on multiple instances. I can’t find your post on lemm.ee so I couldn’t test on 19.5
Nope. I’ve got English and Spanish on my phone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is what I see on my phone:
For people who would prefer to read an article with references rather than watch a video:
Why is the preview showing Cyrillic text?
It’s the circle of life
harness it,
Getting more efficient and cost effective at a rapid pace. Still some environmental concerns over manufacturing, raw materials acquisition, and disposal of old equipment.
store it,
Getting more efficient and cost effective at a less rapid pace. Still significant environmental concerns over manufacturing, raw materials acquisition, and disposal of old equipment.
then distribute it.
Lots of effort and resources needed for this part. Need to subsidize consumer appliance conversion better.
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.