joewp wrote:These biomass to liquid biofuel plants at least answer one question for me. Now I know what they plan to do with all the dead bodies of the starving poor, feed them into the BTL plants!
Soylent Fuel. You know it's coming.
DomusAlbion wrote:joewp wrote:These biomass to liquid biofuel plants at least answer one question for me. Now I know what they plan to do with all the dead bodies of the starving poor, feed them into the BTL plants!
Soylent Fuel. You know it's coming.
Then the plant would be in Africa or India, otherwise the cost of transporting the bodies would be prohibitive.
The net capacity factor of a power plant is the ratio of the actual output of a power plant over a period of time and its output if it had operated at full nameplate capacity the entire time.
cube wrote:you get different numbers with different nations. anyone have an explanation?
dorlomin wrote:Unfortunetly we cannot fertilise the fields with the rhetorical bullshit we get from the government on this issue or global food prices would be in for a huge drop.
dorlomin wrote:Unfortunetly we cannot fertilise the fields with the rhetorical bullshit
How much do you think it would cost to move something like that using battery powered trucks?DR_STU wrote:Yeah, I guess we should just do nothing, even those things that have a chance of easing our transition to a lower energy/lower carbon future.
cube wrote:How much do you think it would cost to move something like that using battery powered trucks?DR_STU wrote:Yeah, I guess we should just do nothing, even those things that have a chance of easing our transition to a lower energy/lower carbon future.
How much would a windmill cost if every truck, ship, construction equipment needed to produce a windmill from iron ore extraction to manufacturing and placement were ALL battery powered!
Do you still think this can be done without cheap oil?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
cube wrote:here's how you move a 5 mega-watt windmill, or at least the bottom section of just the hub!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHnjb2wo1A
Whoever thinks we're going to be doing this kind of stuff post PO - I'd just like to know what type of recreational drugs you're taking because I'd like to have some of it too!
I wonder if they'll build larger windmills or did we just hit "peak wind power"
cube wrote:here's how you move a 5 mega-watt windmill, or at least the bottom section of just the hub!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mHnjb2wo1A
Whoever thinks we're going to be doing this kind of stuff post PO - I'd just like to know what type of recreational drugs you're taking because I'd like to have some of it too!
I wonder if they'll build larger windmills or did we just hit "peak wind power"
To be honest I have this theory that so long as society hasn't collapsed into the dark ages there will always be oil....but it will be mighty expensive. It will be reserved for either ultra critical functions like (farm tractors, police cars, military, etc...) and not for soccer moms to drive their SUV's.Tanada wrote:...
I kind of doubt shipping will ever be battery powered, at worst they will go back to sail/wind power and at best a small fission reactor is all any ship needs for power and freshwater.
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