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There's no way this becomes anything other than niche. I like the handwaving over thermal storage. Whats the working fluid? Are we just going to move all heavy industry to the southwest?
There's that lithium mine project in NM that is looking like a big deal for some Canadian company
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Biden administration suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland orders new environmental review of the leasing program, saying the Trump administration did an ‘insufficient analysis’ of drilling’s impact
A polar bear and her young stand along the Beaufort Sea coast in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 2007. (Susanne Miller/USFWS/Reuters)
By
Juliet Eilperin and Joshua Partlow
June 1, 2021 at 12:46 p.m. MDT
The Biden administration Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning one of President Donald Trump’s most significant environmental acts during his last days in office.
The move by the Interior Department, which could spark a major legal battle, aims to unwind nearly a dozen leases in the heart of a pristine expanse in Alaska that Republicans and Democrats have fought over for four decades. The Trump administration auctioned off the right to drill in the refuge’s coastal plain — home to hundreds of thousands of migrating caribou and waterfowl as well as the southern Beaufort Sea’s remaining polar bears — just two weeks before President Biden was inaugurated.
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Green Habit wrote:
Lingering opposition to nuclear power is going to be one of the biggest failures in the battle to get rid of fossil fuels ASAP.
Does anyone really believe that grid scale energy storage is just around the corner or are they just okay with weather induced blackouts?
I think it can be a small part of the solution, but not the majority or whole solution. Just like I feel like about all other clean energy techniques. If we're serious about eliminating fossil fuels (and we should be!) we need every tool available, which is why I get angry when people try to take away the nuclear tool.
Lingering opposition to nuclear power is going to be one of the biggest failures in the battle to get rid of fossil fuels ASAP.
Does anyone really believe that grid scale energy storage is just around the corner or are they just okay with weather induced blackouts?
I think it can be a small part of the solution, but not the majority or whole solution. Just like I feel like about all other clean energy techniques. If we're serious about eliminating fossil fuels (and we should be!) we need every tool available, which is why I get angry when people try to take away the nuclear tool.
Which is why we are fucked. I see far too many exclamations of renewables plus storage, and far too few examples of storage. Mandating house level solar + storage is the only thing that seems to be feasible at the moment, which is only viable in certain regions. Unfortunately, those regions don't have the water needed to support moving everyone else over.
California solar installers are pissed that the regulators are trying to decrease compensation for residential solar. The problem is we're pretty much maxed out on solar. Peak solar output and peak demand do not align. Maybe if you get a giant capacitor bank and correct that several hour gap we can align those interests.
California will continue to pay neighboring entities to take excess solar power and turn around to buy natural gas or coal powered energy a few hours after. Its embarassing that the French largely got this right and we don't. (Think of all the great nuclear union jobs).
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maybe carbon capture sites once erupting can double as geothermal
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