Apropos of nothing, $25 added to a barrel is a carbon tax of about $58/ton, but in the pocket of the producers left standing rather than the public.
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Apropos of nothing, $25 added to a barrel is a carbon tax of about $58/ton, but in the pocket of the producers left standing rather than the public.
Same for me and my brother, age wise, but we did know he got it.
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Then there are Stirling engines. This approach has been largely abanadoned.
And this isn't steam heat, but it is PV-T
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You can also look at what Fourth Power and Antora are doing using TPV to recover electricity from stored heat.
Check out what Raygen in Australia was developing.
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Yes they are
"Without the parasitic load of a pump, Eavor can make profitable use of relatively low heat, around 150°C, available almost anywhere about a mile and a half down"
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My interpretation was 50% higher (so in geothermal that means going from like 12% to 18% efficiency) due to their non-water working fluid, and possibly lower parasitic loads from injection, etc.
Well, between the precipitous drop in migration and the full assault on life expectancy, the Trump administration will make 2.8% look ambitious.
Potentially weird outcome where Trump, somewhat like Putin in Ukraine, accelerates the clean energy transition more than anybody, but through the dumbest, most painful way possible.
I agree, it's very terrible
Weirdly good for both the oil oligarchs and Elon Musk at the same time
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While I have watched several of the movies and a handful of episodes, I am not a huge follower of all the lore. I could be wrong, but yes, I believe it is canon.
Similar for EU LNG
Crude is way up from the low 60s we have been seeing lately, but still nowhere near "invasion of Ukraine" territory.
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If this escalates into attacks on water infrastructure (on both sides), it could set off the humanitarian crisis of the century.
4 miles in less than six weeks! Game changer.
I saw a fresh Canary Media article on that, but haven't had a chance to read it. 4-mile depth, pretty impressive. I am not going to hold my breath for oil companies to transition, but to the extent they do, I will take it.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
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This article also introduced me to Rodatherm, another player in the closed-loop geothermal game. They are building a pilot plant in Utah. It looks like they want to play in shallower sedimentary basins, which should be easier, but limiting.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...
What Quaise is trying to pull off would be as revolutionary as what most fusion companies are pursuing if it becomes consistently repeatable. Blast your way deep enough to set up a dispatchable clean thermal plant anywhere on Earth.
Starting with 50MW in Oregon.
If you're hoping for a Start Trek future - World War 3 starts in 2026.
Was hoping we could skip that part.
Afraid I need to start with "Can we please unban these?"
Pretty necessary if you're going to colomize the moon (assuming you'd want to do that). Not sure what the cooling design looks like, especially during the two weeks of day.
I'll take a nuclear plant, too, if someone wanted to build it and could find a way to cool it given our hydrology.
4. Generally, the primary local benefit is in terms of property taxes and/or economic development payments. You also get 1 or 2 permanent local jobs per 100MW (not much after construction, admittedly).
3. Indirectly, in a time of load growth driven by data centers, EVs, heat pumps, and industrial electrification, everyone on the grid benefits financially from expanding capacity. Solar also reduces the amount of gas we have to burn, and insulates us from fossil fuel fluctuations.
So the thing about power flows
1. They flow to the nearest load through the path of least impedance, meaning physically, you do benefit from the power
2. In terms of direct finances, no, your power provider may not be a purchaser but...
Why do you say the power won't benefit you?
Oh that's a new one!
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Check out the IU model solar ordinance, for starters.
Beware:
1. Extra long setbacks
2. Decibel requirements
3. Unreasonable screening requirements (e.g. 6 foot berm with trees on top)
4. Heat Island studies
5. Low acreage caps
The shenanigans here in 2022/2023 were
1. Add solar to the list of undesirable land uses in the comp. plan when it was specifically not on the list after we banned wind
2. Survey question: Do you approve of this undesirable list (wind, solar, porn stores, landfills, heavy industry, toxic waste)