It's ambiguous then as to what cf they mean.

New western offshore wind is in the 40-50% cf range. EU solar is 13% so there's a big range there.

10TW net final energy to replace existing 18TW of world wide primary energy and cover some growth sounds pretty close to most ballparks so 30TW of 30% cf sounds reasonable.

Arrrgh

Yeah 262PWh at 100% capacity factor

Since wind cf is about 30% That’s 78.8PWh of energy, so 2.7 times the USA energy.

No where in that article does it mention nameplate

You have seen the current state of longevity research right? Things are moving ahead rapidly

Nouriel Roubini has predicted about 25 of the last 3 recessions. A stopped clock is right twice a day, but it's not a particularly good or usable clock.

30 * 8.760 is 260 not 26.

Net implying average output over the year. Ie. A 3.3kW nameplate tilting solar system in California is 1kW net. Primary energy is input, final energy is what is achieved. A 25% efficient gas engine running on tar sand oil with an EROI of 3 needs about 6kW of primary energy for 1kW of output. The 500GW or so of primary energy powering US transport can be replaced by 100GW of electricity. Similarly 200GW of gas heating can be 50GW of electric heat pump.

If the 30TW is nameplate then the capacity factor cancels some of the waste heat, so it's merely 10x what the US uses not 30x.

TW is power so multiply by a time to get energy

Here’s my reference to USA energy https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/Energy_2021_United-States_0.png

Don’t know what you mean by ‘net’

An app providing the power price in real time (for those with a flex, read 15 minutes charging mechanism). Than you can save or even earn with the electricity connection

COLTAN mining by children in Congo.

People get weird when you point out how objectively bad American suburbs are

If you make in the long run, an AI-based app that gives you laws that you might break and potential sanction if you do something in your country, but be sure to specify that information won't be given to the third parties. As a law student, add ability to see which laws exactly will affect your situation. If it's short-term, make an app that makes recipes for random dishes

Where are we getting these? How come I never see a wind turbine or solar panel factory run on alternative energy? I hope we can build these all next to hydro dams and geothermal plants, tidal etc but something tells me those are expensive exceptions and not the norm

Until then, these are batteries that we probably don’t want to see how they’re made

bruh how tf you going claim a solar farm is an eyesore

do they commute to work in a helicopter or something?

its not even at ground level or anything! it was suppose to be ontop of a mesa with a setback from the edge that made it out of line of sight

dunno why youre being downvoted, youre entirely correct

south australia is somewhere around 15-25% renewables from what i can see

iceland is 25% geothermal 75% hydro

paraguay is 99.8% hydro and 0.2% biofuel which is honestly incredible, they use like 3x as much power as iceland

also apparently albania and the DRC are 100% hydro but that seems odd

not exactly hard to be cheaper than fossil fuels, i mean the global fossil fuel industry is subsidized 16 billion dollars PER DAY, and is still more expensive than renewables

on an entirely unrelated note the global fossil fuel industry makes a profit of 6 billion dollars per day, way to go guys

Initially yes, but once the rich demonstrate successful aging reversal tech, and use it on themselves then all their followers will sit up and take notice, if bill gates made many billions selling Microsoft Windows with every new computer then how much would insurance companies charge if you got your anti-aging tuneup every 10 years ???

I dunno, the appeal of localism is that getting angry and showing up to meetings actually works, unlike other politics

>The current petroleum product mix being consumed is 130,000 TWh of coal, oil, and gas. It’s growing at a rate of 1000 TWh per year.
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>Where does he get 30 TWh?

"Normally the consumption is given in TWh, which is an energy unit. One TW corresponds to 8,760 TWh per year."

130,000TWh/8760TWh = 14.84TW

30TW > 14.84 TW

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>It has always been cheaper overall to switch to renewables.

If that was true, China would already be 100% renewable. They are not.

The switch from incandescent bulbs to LED/CFL bulbs also cut a great deal of energy needs. 60W down to 8-12W per bulb

Isn’t anybody in this thread gonna say something mean about Musk?

The current petroleum product mix being consumed is 130,000 TWh of coal, oil, and gas. It’s growing at a rate of 1000 TWh per year.

Where does he get 30 TWh?

Even the locals are usually just responding to scare campaigns.

Not ruling this out, but you may be underestimating true nimbyism