One day, years from now, the world will laugh and laugh at how we had this infinite energy source and we couldn't figure out how to make it work.
Solar isn't a matter of if, but when. This is all necessary for that inevitability.
In my lifetime, it is unlikely we wean completely off of fossil fuels but the solution is going to be a number of different inputs. Also, as the population grows, if we can at least replace that additional demand with renewables, we will be better off as a planet.
Alberta doesn't have the climate for concentrated solar power. You need areas like the American SW desert
That's cool. That doesn't mean those types of energy companies can't have offices here. Regardless of where they build and test their infrastructure, we should be attracting energy innovation companies like that, regardless.
Also, does that information you linked to have anything to do with Heliogen and their product? Is that their infrastructure?
That's cool. That doesn't mean those types of energy companies can't have offices here. Regardless of where they build and test their infrastructure, we should be attracting energy innovation companies like that, regardless.
We do, for areas that are relevant to Alberta's resources or expertise. Such as hydrogen from the oil sands:
Also, does that information you linked to have anything to do with Heliogen and their product? Is that their infrastructure?
They're based on the same principles, except less challenging due to lower temperatures. And Heliogen provides few details beyond temperature, such as the amount of actual available energy. 1000+C temperatures can be useful, but there's be demonstrations of even higher temperatures from 50 years ago:
The question is whether it can scale up to be actual useful. Another issue is that the potential big industrial users like steel mills, aren't located in the desert.
Seems to me the company that Gates is funding is trying to use their process to fix the issue with industrial processes like cement production having high carbon emissions.
The scientists make specific calls for policymakers to quickly implement systemic change to energy, food, and economic policies. But they go one step further, into the politically fraught territory of population control. It “must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity,” they write.
Time to form the compassionate death squads.
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One day, years from now, the world will laugh and laugh at how we had this infinite energy source and we couldn't figure out how to make it work.
Solar isn't a matter of if, but when. This is all necessary for that inevitability.
In my lifetime, it is unlikely we wean completely off of fossil fuels but the solution is going to be a number of different inputs. Also, as the population grows, if we can at least replace that additional demand with renewables, we will be better off as a planet.
We can make it work easily. It’s batteries where we have the problem.
I took a skim through the list of previous Time People of Year. While I am obviously not familiar with all of them, in reading through their bios, I get the impression that Greta is the least accomplished of any of them.
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I took a skim through the list of previous Time People of Year. While I am obviously not familiar with all of them, in reading through their bios, I get the impression that Greta is the least accomplished of any of them.
Right, but she's killed a lot fewer people than Hitler did...so far.
Hitler, Stalin, Kissinger, if you're one of histories greatest monsters then you're basically a shoe in for Time's Person of the year. All she needs now is a Nobel peace prize.
