Sapogin's recent work was explaining Paul Bauman generator urban legend here http://inep.sfedu.ru/wp-conten…ds/2017/02/17/Storage.pdf
Max Nozin
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Wind and solar are great success story that is why https://www.popularmechanics.c…lear-power-tiny-reactors/
Good that there are people in DOE who know their limitations.
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80% of the time it does not exists and remaining 20% of the time I am too high to do anyu
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I am curious what you think:
If you were Advent Health, after reading this article how would you feel about your continuing to use HCQ, while your competitor Orlando Health discontinued?
And also, if you had COVID and read the article, which hospital would you chose to be a patient of?
What did they actually mean by saying “We have had several patients do very well after receiving THEM"? Does THEM also included plasma.
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The H2 Global system has been demonstrated to a scientist on our team. It is demonstrated frequently. They claim 95% water at present but some experiments have done better. When the Dutch Ministry of Defense verifies and validates the system in the Fall it will be more difficult to make snide remarks.
The Windmobile was invented by the late Prof. of Aeronautics James Amick (U. of Michigan). We designed and sent him the electric propulsion system. It was the cover story for Popular Science in November of 1976. Licensed as a motorcycle it could cruise at 65 mph on the freeway in a 13 mph crosswind. .
It is becoming a good tradition to invite military people iinto such things. Us Navy, Italian colonel an Dutch.
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@Mark Goldes another thing about H2G which now makes me feel very stupid was wind-powered buggy. Long time ago I noticed that every time I drive the car there is always very strong wind blowing from the opposite to my driving direction. Same when I bike. Wind makes biking experience not as pleasant sometimes. But it never appeared to me that I can use that wind to my advantage, same way water buggy does! Simple idea, just install wind turbine on my car and loop it to the engine. For me it is easy since I drive hybrid. The faster I drive - the stronger the wind - more power to my engine - huge $$$ savings! Kudos to H2G!
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Max, Apparently, it is needed to start the engine. As you may have noticed they have managed to get one engine in a video running with merely 1.1% gasoline. 100% water is the goal and it has been achieved in the lab but not yet proven practical. It seems that is merely a matter of more R&D.
He dumped 5ml of gas once in a empty tanks than to were 450ml of water were.
The notion they have 1.1% percent test comes from the statement somewhere on the web site.
Are you seriously thinking they are for real?
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@MarkGoldes I checked out H2G site you linked. Do you know why they are adding gasoline into already 'highly combustible water fuel'? Is it for the conventional engine smell?
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Economics of new reactor deisgns and ideas are yet to be proven. Yes they talk about SMR as the Solution, but Small Modular Reactor will probably be more expensive, not less in my opinion. So we will see If or when they deliver.
We don't have to worry about that. Get them approved and see if they are variable. In the atmosphere where only solar, wind and musk can save the planet it is hard for them to progress.
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Is wind electricity of Iowa cheap, because its cheaply produced, or because grid providers have no interest about this unpredictable and volatile electricity?
These Forbes articles (1, 2) explain the mystery of "cheap" electricity from wind plants. See also: Is wind power saving rural Iowa or wrecking it?Nice articles. Should also mention subsidies via special high fixed rate. For instance in Ontario at some point these prices were up to 80c CAD for 1kWh solar while consumers pay below 20c.
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Just one more hint: Electricity price in Germany is indirectly bound to the oil price...
Let me guess why... Because natural gas is also bound to oil price? Or is it just an old Alpine tradition?
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Safety comes at a cost. This is clearly evident by the ongoing nuclear projects in Flamanville France, in Finland and in UK Hinkley Point project.
They are all the latest and safest designs, and are being built at an absolutely Crazy CAPEX.
The one in Finland and in France is now at above 9 USD pr. Watt electric installed capacity. And Hinkley Point have agreed an electricity cost twice the market cost of power.
You now get large solar PV plants at below 1USD pr. watt installed capacity.
EDIT; The above values are investment CAPEX factors that also decides the final electricity cost pr. KWh for profitability.
When and if LENR arrives we can remove much of the costly safety systems that makes traditional nuclear power uneconomic.
What they are building is an EPR.
From Wiki "The EPR is the evolutionary descendant of the Framatome N4 and Siemens Power Generation Division "Konvoi" reactors.[9][10] Siemens ceased its nuclear activities in 2011"
Framatome: The company first formed in 1958 to license Westinghouse's pressurized water reactor (PWR) designs for use in France. Similar agreements had been put in place with other European countries.
All these reactors could arguably be an evolutionary descendants of first reactors designed in 50s. This prevailing mentality that bigger is better results in building monsters with large amount of radioactive material.
Everybody loves Tesla and SpaceX vs incumbent stories. That can be possible repeated in the power sector.
There were dozens alternative reactor designs with nice passive safety features. Good news there are few startups developing them so I a guess than economics is not as bad. Another good news is that somebody in Canada listens to them and they are way ahead into regulatory approval process in Canada compare to US despite our notorious bureaucracy.
What I get form renewable energy manifestos is that it we could go 100% if we cut consumption by 30%. Really? Can you grow economy and cut consumption? That is not happening. Secondly we is going to finance baseload power facilities idling on a sunny/windy day and working full blast on a sweltering windless night once in a while.
Spain cancelled its solar tax in 2018 but I think the tax was fair. While the renewables were on a winning streak somebody have to silently pay for exiting connections to the gird just in case.
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If Germany decided to develop safe nuclear reactor designs after Fukushima, they would be using clean energy (still) Instead of using coal and buying more natural gas from Russians.
I agree what that did was a nonsense, Wyttenbach
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You just talk nonsense... They still (not instead) use coal and the mafia who owns it tries to stop wind by heavily financing the ruling mafia.
What coal mafia fighting wind mafia has to do with fact Germany declared denucleraization after Fukushima.
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German CO2 emissions are down since 1990 thank's to renewables.
Nuclear cannot be built fast enough to matter. It takes 15 year to build a single nuclear plant.
dream on
Nord Stream 1, Nord Stream 2 ......
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Germany freaked out with wind and solar and lost decade of progress in nuclear energy now has to use coal instead.
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If there is enough renewable overproduction (converted into gas) the gas plants will only run from november to february with not much load.
And what if there is not? Will you import it from Switzerland? They may not have any extra energy. Office lights and computers take a lot of power.
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Yes Norway has done 100% renewable for 100+ years.
And Hydro Power in Norway could probably become a large scale battery for all of Europe.
There are already several cables to/from Norway - Europe, and more is being built as we speak. So Norway will become Europes battery at some time in the future..
So all we would need is Solar + wind + Pumped Hydro as storage.
Some batteries should be added for fast acting grid stability as done i Australia with huge success
Who else is thinking that many other countries on this planet can possibly live like Switzeland and Norway?
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Sorry. Forget to exclude hydro from the mix since it is not widely available as solar and wind.
Stories about Norway, Switzeland and Quebec are nice but reare.
We are going to see more Hoover dams and Muskrat Falls stories with hydro.
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As I showed in above trend, Solar and Wind now supply 9% of annual global electricity supply.
Hardly a niche product anymore.
And no, in the Sunny places on the globe, NO subsidies are required for solar, same for wind many places.
AND cost for solar and wind is still falling.
any countries with renewables providing base load yet? Are Germans still as exited about renewables as they were 10 years ago?
