Replace all Earth-based solar power with this:
Give me the Internal Combustion Engine, or give me death!
I have a number of small solar panels, wires, batteries and electronic devices to fool around with.
Recent exercises with same have proven to me that I need the Grid and coal, gas, hydro, nuke, etc. power generation.
I could squeak by with solar in emergencies, which is why I bought this stuff.
Solar power: Your fair-weather friend
Use nuclear units as we use on ships. Small, compact, shorter time frame to get on line. I’m guessing here but they should be sized for a city of 15-20,000. Bigger city? More units.
trouble is FakeNewsMSM is fully on board with the climate scam. heard talk show hosts yesterday try to shut down any suggestion EVs were involved in the following, yet the investigation is just beginning:
12 Oct: Daily Mail: Luton airport chaos ‘will last for DAYS’ after massive inferno caused by exploding Range Rover destroyed £20m multi-storey car park and sparked mass flight cancellations
By TOM PYMAN and MARK DUELL and JAMES FIELDING and RORY TINGLE
As many as 1,500 vehicles are feared to have been damaged after the car park, which has a capacity of 1,900, collapsed...
Investigators believe the blaze was started when a diesel car, thought to be a Range Rover, suffered an electrical fault or leaking fuel line.
***The fire then spread as a number of electric vehicles burst into flames, one firefighter suggested***...
The temperature of the flames soared well over the 600C (1,110F) that would destroy the building’s integrity, and one fire officer said it would have hit six million watts...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12619517/luton-airport-disruption-days-fire-car-park-flights.html
11 Oct: Luton Today: Eerie video shows aftermath of Luton Airport car park blaze
One person has managed to film the destroyed car park close up
by James Lowson
Bedfordshire Fire Service believes as many as 1,500 vehicles may have been affected by the fire, while one firefighter at the scene said: “We can’t get close enough to see. It’s too dangerous, it will probably fall down on you, so they will probably do an insurance job and bring it all down.”...
An investigation to determine the cause of the fire is under way.
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/eerie-video-shows-aftermath-of-luton-airport-car-park-blaze-4368542
Replace all Earth-based solar power with this:
Thorium Reactors
“Thorium reactors are based on the thorium fuel cycle and use thorium 232 as a fertile material. During the fuel burning, thorium 232 transforms into a fissile uranium 233. Unlike natural uranium, natural thorium contains only trace amounts of fissile material (such as thorium 231), which are insufficient to initiate and sustain the nuclear chain reaction. Therefore, additional fissile material is necessary to initiate the fuel cycle.”
https://www.nuclear-power.com/nuclear-power-plant/reactor-types/thorium-reactor/
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At the end, the author calls for nuclear energy. Fine. We should be green-lighting as many nuclear energy reactors as we can. SMRs are good.
Recognize what is happening: the Chinese, the Russians and the Persian Gulf terrorist nations are hammering us with propaganda against EVERY form of energy. If anyone is sincerely afraid of global warming’s supposedly civilization-threatening effects, what sense does it not make to be promoting nuclear power construction like mad?
They promoted wind energy and solar energy like crazy since the 1960s, because for the entirety of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, solar and wind energy were hypotheticals with no real chance of being implemented. Now that they’re being implemented because the cost has been decreasing in a lineal rate akin to Moore’s law, suddenly these envirowhackos are worried about seabirds? The conservatives who have been okay with pit mines are suddenly afraid of lithium mining??? WTF, people?!
Don’t buy into it. Develop natural gas AND nuclear AND clean coal AND solar AND wind, and keep developing it until its way cheaper to build in the U.S. than in China!
“the Noor III complex combines its solar power tower with a central receiver that super heats molten salts to more than 500°C.
“These molten salts can store heat and allow the plant to produce power at full capacity even during hours of darkness. For this to work, huge quantities of these special salts, which are a mixture of potassium and sodium nitrate, are held in massive steel tanks.”
Solar can be integrated into hydrogen production. That way when solar produces even a drop of electricity it turns water into hydrogen through electrolysis. As those solar cells intermittently produce electricity, hydrogen is stored in underground tanks like one massive battery.
Update from NYS...
For about two months surrounding December’s winter solstice, the sun barely peeks above the horizon in Alaska. In fact, the northernmost city in America – Utqiaġvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow – has near-constant darkness from mid- to late November until late January because the sun never rises during that 60-plus-day period.