Also does the left know that the most efficent source of electricity, is from fossil fuels, especially coal.
We can rag on the Greeks all we want, but at least they didn’t waste their time and money on EVs
Yes. They know but won’t admit it.
The left thinks the source of electricity is the electrical outlet in the wall.
The left does not understand that the electricity has to be generated in a power plant, and transmitted over electrical lines to reach that outlet.
The left does not understand that a source of energy , such as coal,, is needed to run the power plant that generates the electricity.
electricity was always here we were too stupid to find it
Did that author really just state the electrons are “particles of electricity”?
Interesting and just in case anyone is interested in this..... Just this morning, I went through some electrical calculations on something that I’ve been wondering about.
Small generators such as ones made by Generac are sold as backup/standby units. However for where I live, natural gas prices have stayed fairly stable while electricity costs have gone way up. What I was wondering was whether a generator using natural gas should be considered as more than just standby... and whether it might be as economical as buying grid electricity.
What I found was that the annual cost of natural gas to generate my own power isn’t all that much different than what I pay for electricity. This of course is just a comparison of natural gas to electricity and doesn’t take into consideration the capital/installation/maintenance costs of owning one’s own generator....regardless, as it turns out, the numbers were fairly close.
“most efficent source of electricity, is from fossil fuels, especially coal.”
No the most efficient source of electricity is nuclear bar none.
By every metric power can be measured by. Those being capacity factor no power source comes close to the 90+% capacity factor of nukes.
Longevity of plant life same same 80 year lifetime is now the norm with 100 being in the permitting stages.
EROI namely how much energy was used to mine the resources needed to make the plant AND mine the fuel for it. Nuclear is an order of magnitude higher that any other source on the planet.
One sugar cube sized fuel pellet has the energy of one metric tonne of coal or 150 gallons of oil and that’s with using only 4% of the fuel pellet as fuel in a LWR reactor 96% of that pellet is still fuel when it’s removed for waste storage. This should be a crime against humanity to throw away that much energy thank Jimmy Fing Carter for this travesty.
The spent fuel of a lifetime electricity consumption of the average American if powered solely by once through nuclear power would fit inside a 12 oz coke can. With reprocessing only 4% of that volume would be needed.
The binding energy curve is a marshmallow test for a species you either master it or go extinct. Fossil fuels will run out especially cheap as in under $200 bbl oil in 50 years at most. Coal is too dirty to burn open air and the scrubbers needed to clean it up are more expensive then the plant they are attached too. Natural gas has 80 years or so at present consumption rates but double the rates to replace the loss of cheap oil and halve the time.
Nuclear power is the only long-term solution to a high energy society fast reactors with full reprocessing gives billions of years of energy at the 500 quad billion BTU level which a society of 10 billion humans all demanding a somewhat middle class existence would use at least 500 quads of not a 1000.
Even with nuclear power there is not enough other resources on this planet to have 8 billion at American energy and resource consumption levels. The root problem is over population and it’s racist to even talk about solutions for that very real issue.
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Electricity, or Ethereal Fire, Considered
T. Gale, 1802
http://www.henrylivingston.com/theman/atlocustgrove/medical/electricity/cover.htm
Once you’ve captured your electricity with your lightning rod, this book tells you how to store it and use it to cure all your medical problems. Very responsible. Suggests working your way up in voltage slowly and not to zap electricity INTO your eye, but just wave your hand and waft it gently into your eye.
This book was bought by 5th great uncle a couple years before he died. Very popular in those days. I scanned the whole thing in and transcribed it.
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It was only later that these atoms evolved in order to give us electricity.
The author stopped just a wee bit early. He should have expanded more on how the electric power industry was formed and grew after Edison's first commercial station at Pearl Street in Manhattan.
Instrumental in this was Samuel Insull (1859 – 1938), a British-born business magnate. He was an innovator and investor based in Chicago who helped create the huge integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States. He's often been called the father of the US electrical power industry.
Every society in history has had an established power that would ban anything that represents a threat. You know, like DJT.
America is the only place in the world where the advent of electricity could have taken place because the government was a tiny fraction of what it is now.
Without the victory of Washington at Yorktown, electricity would not exist today. Great Britain would not have allowed something so unique and powerful as electricity to enter their domain without knowing in advance how it would affect the power structure of their aristocracy’s authority.
The three people who were indispensable to the creation of the modern world were Washington, Franklin and Edison, in that order.
Without Washington’s steely determination to win, and his absolute refusal to yield under tremendous pressure, America would never have become the greatest nation on earth. Without Franklin’s scientific experiments to lead the way, electricity would never have become more than a gee whiz gadget on university display shelves. Without Edison’s experimentation with over a thousand different elements and his determination to create the incandescent light bulb, it still wouldn’t exist today.
Bear in mind that medical science would not exist without electricity. Before electricity, doctors couldn’t see anything, they couldn’t test anything, they couldn’t analyze anything. Without electricity, any medical diagnosis is no more than a guess, usually not a good one. Life expectancy would revert back to 45 or 50 years of age.
Electricity could only have happened here, in America, yet nobody thanks us for it.
What a shame people don’t know their own history.
Franklin, Edison, and Tesla are possibly the most common names cited in the history of man’s understanding of electricity but that history goes back a lot farther, to the era of Faraday (in particular) and perhaps a dozen others.
For those interested, this woman has some very interesting and entertaining stories/vignettes/lessons from electrical history that are very well done.
kathylovesphysics.com
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Shouldn’t this really be a history of “smoke”? Electricity is really about keeping the smoke in...or it’ll escape.
Agree the left doesn’t know that electricity is only 35% efficient.