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I could skate on my driveway this morning!We used to live on a street pitched like that. I ran studded snow tires (Nokian Hakkapeliittas) for years just so I could get home.
Totally worth it. I never had an unsafe moment of snow driving with those tires.
Right on those counts. On the one hand it's crazy that the power grid in the US (and everywhere else I believe) has no way to store surplus power for times of peak demand. Buuuut the rub is that we have not developed a technology that can do it at the scale that's needed. Two possible approaches are to use some kind of (massive!) battery system, or use electricity to crack water into oxygen and hydrogen, store them, then run them into fuel cells to deliver supplemental electricity on demand. Those are great conceptual ideas, but the engineering, testing, and development that's required to actually make it work and scale it up into production is at very, very early stages still.
Unless windmills are frozen and solar panels are covered with snow that is.
Someone pretty deliberately made it prohibitively expensive to do anything nuclear related in this country. Every reactor has to be bespoke here for some reason, and every nut and bolt costs an arm and a leg if it’s anywhere near a power station. China is pursuing thorium right now and there’s no such bullshit there.
More heat energy More free water from melted ice Decreased salt in the oceans Increased ocean temps more energetic storm systems More damage in previously unusual regions Ocean levels rising Massive displacement of people inland and more mass extinctions. We are already losing 200 unique species daily and that’s going to get worse.
Yeah it's no easy task to store that much power for any period of time. Battery technology is definitely not there yet. Some areas with hydro production use "gravity batteries" where they pump water into huge holding reservoirs upstream for later release through dam generators but that's got limited scope. It's also not an option in areas with water scarcity, which will continue to spread. Closed loop systems could be used to circulate the same water back and forth but you still have to contend with evaporation losses. Not an easy nut to crack.
How do you explain all these: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/texas/winter-storms-tx/ ? And how many new species are we finding daily? Did you know that the vast majority of already existing species are currently unknown?The point is these events are going to become less exceptional in the coming years. More CO2
More free water
Food stocks and sources are going to be lost as everything in the ocean dies off and/or is overfished. This is a planet-wide thermal runaway and people won’t recognize it for what it is since it’s happening in real time and relatively slow-motion.
cause and effect
action and reaction
The Laws of Thermodynamics
Antarctica seems to have no problem with their windmills. Maybe, if proper preparation is done, things work better....
It's like being a frog in a pot as the water slowly heats up. Perty soon yer goose is cooked if you just sit there....The point is these events are going to become less exceptional in the coming years. More CO2
More free water
Food stocks and sources are going to be lost as everything in the ocean dies off and/or is overfished. This is a planet-wide thermal runaway and people won’t recognize it for what it is since it’s happening in real time and relatively slow-motion.
cause and effect
action and reaction
The Laws of Thermodynamics
On a small scale, compressing air is a fair method of storing energy. I wonder how scalable it is....
Really, you’re going to pay for frost-proof windmills in Texas of all places? For once in 30+ years blizzard?
