kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: npub17qmud…4uz8c I think you wanted to write “private funding brings problems”, ...
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I think you wanted to write “private funding brings problems”, didn’t you? Otherwise it doesn’t make sense…
Personally, as I moved from Poland to UK I was a bit surprised by the bias against public funding of things. I do understand a lot more about its origins today, but I still place it in the “separate water taps” category of British oddities.
The problem with the “whole country transitioned to zero carbon twice over” claim is that it’s based on very specific assumptions with high uncertainties.
For example, that you will be able to either flood new valleys for hydro storage or build massive gigawatt-hour battery storage, and then add thousands of wind towers across Welsh mountains and coast. PV in Wales would be probably the least effective way of producing electricity in the world 😉 Sure, it works but its EROEI (energy return on energy invested) would be tragically low. Good luck with covering Brecons with wind towers, and then building battery mega-farms especially as the capacity increases and their explosions and fires become more frequent.
One massive issue with renewables is that they use massive amount of one resource that is not really renewable in the way we want to see it: the land surface.
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I think you wanted to write “private funding brings problems”, didn’t you? Otherwise it doesn’t make sense…
Personally, as I moved from Poland to UK I was a bit surprised by the bias against public funding of things. I do understand a lot more about its origins today, but I still place it in the “separate water taps” category of British oddities.
The problem with the “whole country transitioned to zero carbon twice over” claim is that it’s based on very specific assumptions with high uncertainties.
For example, that you will be able to either flood new valleys for hydro storage or build massive gigawatt-hour battery storage, and then add thousands of wind towers across Welsh mountains and coast. PV in Wales would be probably the least effective way of producing electricity in the world 😉 Sure, it works but its EROEI (energy return on energy invested) would be tragically low. Good luck with covering Brecons with wind towers, and then building battery mega-farms especially as the capacity increases and their explosions and fires become more frequent.
One massive issue with renewables is that they use massive amount of one resource that is not really renewable in the way we want to see it: the land surface.
npub195zpfpv8ct96zrnz57z04sj8x6tlgf4yuqla6c354z5vhldnu7mqq8x938 (npub195z…x938)