On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:06:23AM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > > > The earlier answer on the entropy of renewables answered the question; > especially when allied with a simple calculation on energy density for solar > and wind. I strongly recommend https://www.withouthotair.com/ by either buying > the book or it is available to download for free. The author sadly died in his > prime but his most important legacy has global implications and is factual. It > proves that the energy balance cannot be met with natural, non-depleting > sources. Please be careful with what you read, many exponents of renewables > equate electricity with energy. In advanced countries electricity is only > about > 20% of the primary energy supply. Heat and transport dominate by far > worldwide. >
Whilst I'm not antinuclear, it is my understanding that solar energy potential is many orders of magnitude greater than current consumption. IIUC, we could comfortably fit a photovoltaic array within our state to supply all the world's needs for the foreseeable future. We just need to solve storage issues, and electrification of transport and so on, as well as finding somewhere else to live, or course. In reality, such a solar array is more likely to be constructed in the Gobi desert, than in NSW, however :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
