Primary energy consumption, 1880-2019 and extrapolation to 2050. A “petawatt-hour” is 1015 watt-hours
Not gonna happen with any alternate fuel. And until we get nuclear fusion it will be impossible to be carbon neutral.
Posted on 01/31/2021 10:36:17 AM PST by rktman
A quick summary if you don’t have time:
To summarize: to get the world to zero emissions by 2050, our options are to build, commission, and bring on-line either:
• One 2.1 gigawatt (GW, 109 watts) nuclear power plant each and every day until 2050, OR
• 3,000 two-megawatt (MW, 106 watts) wind turbines each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant every day and a half until 2050, assuming there’s not one turbine failure for any reason, OR
• 96 square miles (250 square kilometres) of solar panels each and every day until 2050 plus a 2.1 GW nuclear power plant every day and a half until 2050, assuming not one of the panels fails or is destroyed by hail or wind.
Bottom line, ZERO emissions will never happen. Much dumbassery on display in the recently attacked halls of congress.
Primary energy consumption, 1880-2019 and extrapolation to 2050. A “petawatt-hour” is 1015 watt-hours
Not gonna happen with any alternate fuel. And until we get nuclear fusion it will be impossible to be carbon neutral.
See the quick summary in post 2 here. Yeah, not gonna happen by pedo joe’s desired 2035. Even with ford going all elec. :-)
It matters not, as long as we dump trillions down the hole. THAT’S what matters!
This one was only ‘nearly’ a billion so we need a lot more of them. Hopefully they’ll actually work:
I’d love to see the solar panel that would allow me to remove the tons and tons of snow off of my driveway the way a quart of gasoline does..
See post 7. There may be some cheap solar panels available. I could possibly use some to run a recirc line under my driveway full of ethyelene glycol. Burned up a drive belt on my snow thrower the other day after two and a half hours or snow removal. Web site for blower——belts “out of stock”. Of course they are.
Btw, for that solar cells and windmills we need an area more more than quarter of the USA. I guess we will need to stop farming and cut all the trees. Good news, the trees could be burned as biofuel!
Could work. I have a rich guy in my neighborhood that actually does that. He uses gas to heat the ethylene glycol.
But if your driveway is covered with snow, your solar panels probably are as well.
As for me, I have to get up hours before the sun in the snowy season.
And we are back to the magic battery problem.
LOL! I did ref that one in post 5. My neighbor has a 40V
Ryobi snow thrower but it couldn’t handle what we got between Tuesday night and Friday morning.
That "hole" has all sorts of corrupt slush funds piped in to it to pay for other communist pipe dreams.
Which quarter of the U.S.A, exactly are you going to put it in? This graphic depicts relative area devoted to use, not relative location, obviously.
To meet the required "zero emissions" standard, it is only necessary to eliminate 90% of the people currently living.
I am not advocating such a policy.
You may not be but you can bet someone is....... Just sayin’.
+ ^
If they are after fossil fuels, what about all the plastics that are made from oil?
What’s going to replace them?
Oops I didn’t check out your link in #5
That, and as long as it makes Joe Biden and AOC feel good, because they, you know, sniff, sniff, care so much for the planet - and the children!
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