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GHung wrote:I'm wondering how many watts this thing could produce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJPQlu ... e=youtu.be

If I lived in Alaska and had sled dogs, I would certainly find out. BTW: I don't have much use for people who don't like dogs.

GHung wrote:I'm wondering how many watts this thing could produce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJPQlu ... e=youtu.be

If I lived in Alaska and had sled dogs, I would certainly find out. BTW: I don't have much use for people who don't like dogs.

ROCKMAN wrote:sub - Certainly are alternative. Just saw a Dirty Jobs episode about a water powered corn grinding mill over 150 years old and still operating commercially. But at max only capable of supplying less then 1,000 families. And you had to go to the mill to pick up your own flour or grits. Compare that to a fossil fuel powered operation that supplies many hundreds of thousands of families. And it ships the product hundreds if not a 1,000+ miles to their grocery stores.

Back to that same damn scale problem.

yellowcanoe wrote:

GHung wrote:I'm wondering how many watts this thing could produce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbJPQlu ... e=youtu.be

If I lived in Alaska and had sled dogs, I would certainly find out. BTW: I don't have much use for people who don't like dogs.

There are more people than dogs on the planet. Perhaps we should have people generating power this way!

GHung wrote:BTW: I don't have much use for people who don't like dogs.

vtsnowedin wrote:In 1915 there were 26 million horses in the USA. By 1960 it had dropped to 3 million. It has sense rebounded to 9 million. Each horse consumes some five tons of grass and hay each year and usually some corn and oats on the side. So getting rid of 23 million horses freed up about 50 million acres of hay and pasture land for other livestock or crops.

KaiserJeep wrote:But I never met anybody who liked oxen. Except perhaps me, as I have a fondness for oxtail soup.

KaiserJeep wrote:I know people who are obsessed with dogs and cats.

Strong gains in solar and wind energy last year have pushed renewable energy to now account for a third of global power capacity, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

IRENA released its Renewable Capacity Statistics 2019 report, which says the world added 171 gigawatts of overall renewable energy capacity in 2018. Global renewable capacity reached 2,351 GW in total by the end of 2018, with hydropower still accounting for half of that. But the vast majority of the gains in 2018 came from solar and wind installations, which accounted for 84% of last year’s growth.

Global wind capacity is now at 564 GW, with solar capacity right behind at 480 GW and rising fast. Whereas wind capacity increased by 49 GW, led by China and the U.S., solar added 94 GW of capacity in 2018 — a 24% increase globally.

Pops wrote:Renewable energy now makes up a third of global power capacity

Strong gains in solar and wind energy last year have pushed renewable energy to now account for a third of global power capacity, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

IRENA released its Renewable Capacity Statistics 2019 report, which says the world added 171 gigawatts of overall renewable energy capacity in 2018. Global renewable capacity reached 2,351 GW in total by the end of 2018, with hydropower still accounting for half of that. But the vast majority of the gains in 2018 came from solar and wind installations, which accounted for 84% of last year’s growth.

Global wind capacity is now at 564 GW, with solar capacity right behind at 480 GW and rising fast. Whereas wind capacity increased by 49 GW, led by China and the U.S., solar added 94 GW of capacity in 2018 — a 24% increase globally.

Of course that's "nameplate" capacity but impressive increase nonetheless. Need more & faster obviously, but good news as far as it goes.

BNP Paribas Says The Party Is Over For Oil Companies

....... Now a new report entitled Wells, Wires, And Wheels from French investment bank BNP Paribas comes with this stunning announcement — “We conclude that the economics of oil for gasoline and diesel vehicles versus wind- and solar-powered EVs are now in relentless and irreversible decline, with far-reaching implications for both policymakers and the oil majors.” ........

BNP Paribas is the world’s 8th largest bank in terms of total assets. The lead author of the report is Mark Lewis. Before joining BNP Paribas in January, he was head of research at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, head of European Utilities Research at Barclays, chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux and head of energy research at Deutsche Bank.

The report introduces a new concept called Energy Return on Capital Invested or EROCI, which allows a comparison of the energy yielded from a given level of investment in different energy sources. Its primary thrust is taking a look at the transportation sector, although its findings apply to all sectors in which fossil fuels are a significant factor. ....

.... The report says, “We define net energy as the amount of energy that does useful work after taking in to account all energy-transportation and energy-conversion costs and losses. What we are most interested in is how much a given capital outlay on oil and renewables translates into useful or propulsive energy at the wheels: in other words, for a given capital outlay, how much mobility can you buy?”

Here’s one example of the shocking news contained in the report: “We calculate that for the same outlay on these different energy sources (wind and solar), oil would have to trade at $9/bbl to yield as much useful energy for gasoline-fueled long distance vehicles as offshore wind would yield in tandem with EVs, $10/bbl for as much useful energy as onshore wind in tandem with EVs, and $10/bbl for as much as useful energy as solar-PV in tandem with EVs.” ......
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/12/bn ... companies/