Earth can't afford low-density Intermittent Energy
Safety of Nuclear no Water cooling and Low-Pressure
Lifting the world out of Energy poverty
Daily 17,000 children under the age of 5 years old, die from lack of clean electricity to have clean water, refrigerated food and avoiding indoor cooking fire of coal or dung. To lift the energy impoverished, an additional 3 to 5 Cubic Miles of Oil (CMO) are needed by 2050.
Total emission free units needed to be added to our current energy by 2050
- 23,000 to 23,100 Solar Thermal Parks or
- 9 to 12 Million Wind Turbines or
- 12 to 20 Billion Solar Roof Tops or
- 7500 to 12,500 small MSRs
Wind is massively dependent on Natural Resources and Land area
Wind Turbine use of natural resources required for a 2 MW Generator.
- Tower: tower base: Steel 165 ton
- Blades: 57m Steel 5.4tons; Carbon Fiber: 3.69 tons; Cast Iron: 8.5 tons; Fiberglass/ 7.96 tons
- • Nacelle 12m; Steel: 165 tons; Fiberglass/ 6.4 tons; Copper: 2.34 tons; Aluminum: .54 tons; Cast Iron: 16.47 tons; Rare earths: about 1 ton
When wind doesn't Blow it needs backup fossil fuel power plants
Wind's impact on Nature and Humans
“Scientists & engineers share an implicit oath to truth and facts for the benefit of society. Wind Energy violates that oath and is a marketing effort to mislead folks and serve GE & others who don't care about the urgency of wise environmental choices today.” Dr. Alex Cannara
Solar Fallacy
Modern solar panels are about 20% efficient. This just means that 20% of the energy in solar radiation is converted into electricity, while the rest is lost as heat. Even though this is actually quite decent, we would nevertheless need to completely cover an area the size of Spain in solar panels to generate enough electricity to meet global energy demands by 2030.
- 20 grams of silver per square meter of Solar panel
- 1 million panels Squared kilometer, this means 11.1 million grams, or 11.1 tons, of silver per square kilometer
- Spain is 506,000 square kilometers in area—This means that 5,616,600 tons of silver - Seven times the silver in the Earth's crust is impossibly required. https://www.nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/06/05/solar-powered-future-impossible/
“That is to say, the SREC costs 6X the kWh of energy costs. Making claims that PV solar costs 5 cents/kWh is misleading if the utility is paying 35 cents for it. Of course the utility buying the energy and the utility buying the SREC may be different. Because this is a lucrative opportunity, the article mentions that there is an increasing supply of SRECs. This should lower the price paid at auction. To prevent this, Massachusetts (for one) has set a floor price of $300/SREC. This creates an oversupply and the situation gets really complex, allowing SRECs to be applied to future years. Does anybody remember Enron?” Robert Hargraves
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