Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Olog-hai

So... how are the electricity and hydrogen going to be produced, what is the fuel source for those?

And how much fuel will it require to grow all the biofuel, and how much land will that require to be cultivated?


13 posted on 06/17/2015 8:22:44 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: exDemMom

In comparison to a run of the mill 1,000-megawatt coal/NG plant:

Solar power plant: Each run-of-the-mill 1,000-megawatt photovoltaic plant will require about 60 square miles of panes alone. In other words, the largest industrial structure ever built.

Biomass: Biomass: growing the amount of cellulose required to shift US electricity production to biomass would require farming... an area the size of 10 Iowas or 562,720 sq mi. which is either most of Alaska or California, New Mexico, and Texas.

Wind: the wind equivalent of a typical utility plant would require 300 square miles of turbines plus costly transmission lines from the wind-scoured fields of, say, North Dakota.

None of the power from wind or solar is on demand, and cannot be stored - except possibly in extremely expensive and massive batteries ...


22 posted on 06/18/2015 6:01:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson