Comments by "" (@louistournas120) on "COP28 president says comments on science behind eliminating fossil fuels "taken out of context"" video.

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  2.  @Smokedouttasian  I don’t know what technology you want to invent that you regard as the perfect solution, but there has been a strong push back for EV. I think it was the Ford EV1. It was part of the contract that you do not own it. Ford took all the vehicles back, crush them, destroyed them. Behind the scene, my guess is that at Ford and the same goes for the other large companies, research into new battery technology was banned. Developing an EV is banned. The only solution was a new company: Tesla. Ford and such large companies offered Telsa to come and sell it at their dealership. Tesla refused. Tesla sold directly to consumers and became a large success. How is it that Ford, Chrysler, GM, Lincoln, Volkwagen, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota are well established and could not do this themselves? There is something weird going on. What about Dell, Apple, Compaq, HP and the other megacorporations? They are unable to make an easily repairable and parts interchangeable cellphone and laptop? Yet, you have the PinePhone, Tuxedo, Framework who are small guys and they do exactly that. How is that possible? The big corporations do exactly what they want to do, they know what they want to know, they don’t know what they don’t want to know. “the average citizen changing their life to a sustainable one will not make a difference its already proven in many studies, the only ways we can mitigate human effects on the climate is we need to invent new tech and techniques for resource collection” ==I am interested in these studies. Show them to me. Look at the difference between Alberta and Quebec. Alberta wants to push for mining their oil sands. The natives who live near there and other people are against it since processing oil sands is very polluting. I would like to know if Alberta has any plans long term. Look at Quebec. They are putting vehicle charging places all over the place. Most of the energy production or all of it is Hydro power. They calculate that if all vehicles are converted to EV, Quebec will need 3.5 Romain power plants. Romain is the name of one of their power plants. I don’t know how how many megawatt it produces. They are already building one or near completion. 2 y or 1 y ago, they signed a 24 billion$ contract to sell power to New York. //Edit: I think Romaine-1 is a 1550 MW station.
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  6.  @Smokedouttasian  I don’t know how reliable solar, wind, geothermal is. For Quebec, most of the energy is hydro power and it is very reliable. It will always depend on the region. For example, Germany is moving away from coal and are investing heavily into wind power. Some people use batteries. Some use molten salt: NaNO3. When there is a dip in power generation, the molten NaNO3 at 450 C is used to generate power. I assume they use the Peltier effect. Germany seems to have a long history of having great chemists, great physicist. It is also a benefit to them when they don’t have oil tycoons. Quebec also doesn’t have petrol and no petrol tycoons here. In the case of the USA, the republican party seems to be all oil tycoons. For example, Donald is not an oil tycoon but since he is a republican, he says “Wind energy? It causes cancer. And what do you do when there is no wind. Little johhny will be in the dark, unable to do his homework.” I am paraphrasing but I saw he say something like that in a couple of speeches. What he is saying “Absolutely not. We are not going to invest in anything else.” There was the case of the electric tank. Donald was making fun of it. He said, now they are trying to make an eco friendly tank. The reality is that China is doing research on it. The benefit is to have a silent vehicle. I don’t know much else about it. I don’t know if it is a practical idea. I’m just showing you the attitude of the republicans. I told you about the attitude of Ford, Chrysler and the rest. I don’t know how reliable industrial scale batteries are. Instead of crushing the EV1, how about the CEOs and their team of research act like teachers: get on TV, show us what the data shows, what the problems are, what they are trying to solve. If a battery needs replacement, the energy generated by the system (wind, solar, etc) would be used by the factories to make a new one. Exactly how much it would cost, I wouldn’t know. “what people perceive as living a sustainable life style” ==That is something else. I’m not even sure what a sustainable life style is. If you want to recycle metal and glass, that is the best. For plastic, they tend to recycle PET and polyethylene but most of it goes to land fills or some other country. People are being lied to about this plastic recycling stuff. The EV is here. The big boys found out that it is hard to push back. The top guys are getting older and they will die. The next generation realizes that the problems will happen on their time. So, now we have the big car boys advertising their EV on TV here in Quebec. I am seeing plenty of Teslas and other EV in the streets. I would not be surprised if half of cars on the street become EV by 2030. Another solution would be to keep using gasoline cars. Make industry that will use the hydro electricity to make something like gasoline. That way, all cars from 1900 and upwards continue to function.
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  14. ​ @toedrag-release  “Right now electric vehicles are great if you live in the city and don't drive much” ==What happens if you drive a lot? What my friend did was that he went to video tape a wedding. The camera’s battery lasts a few hours. Then he switches batteries. The empty battery is placed on charge. He continues to video tape. That is something that has already been proposed but EV car batteries are expensive. Are people willing to pay and keep such batteries at home? “Second you see all the cars at the gas station?” ==Yes, the population has gone up and lifestyle has shifted. Farmers quit and come to the city. We all want the good life. How many are willing to turn backwards, go to the old days of riding a horse or mule and just doing farming? “Now imagine those cars taking hours to fill up and how clogged they'll be” ==The thing is that a discharged battery contains “unprepared chemicals”. They contain the waste product. For example, lead acid batteries contains PbSO4 on the cathode and anode. You need to charge them to get the “prepared chemicals”. We need Pb on the anode and PbO2 on the cathode. That takes energy and time. It is like converting CO2 and H2O back to gasoline. Should we throw the PbSO4 into the streets and just fill up on Pb and PbO2? It can’t be done. The petrol mines contain nearly “prepared chemicals”. They just need to do distillation and reforming and we get the mixture that is called gasoline. They also use petrol as a source of energy to do that work. I don’t know. Maybe capacitors are the solution. “I'm not even going to get into transportation trucks and the fiasco that would be. E.Vs are only competitive because gasoline cars exist so there's less pressure on the charge stations.” ==You think that will be a fiasco? What do you think the future will be like. Let’s say the year is 2300. The world population is 20 billion and even more people are living the good life. Is there going to be enough petrol, platinum, palladium, rhodium, indium in the mines or lithium in the mines? The world is headed to famine, chaos, violence. That is the question: what should we do today? Should we only focus on today’s problems? Should we worry about the year 2300 or 2500 or 4000 or what? “Nuclear is a far better option if an area is able to do so.” ==Whatever humans do, there will be a price to pay since there is no mechanism in nature to deal with the waste. If you mean using uranium, there is a limited amount of U235. Most reactors just split U235 while the U238 gets converted to Pu239 which tends to go to making nuclear weapons. “The building solar fields takes up alot of space for little reward.” ==Solar panels last a long time. I suppose the silicon will suffer from electron migration eventually. I assume each cell can go beyond 100 y. I really don’t know. There is too much I don’t know. Wind power: maybe the turbine would last 50 y. I don’t know. I’m sure that it will suffer from gear wear slowly. “I'm not against renewable energy but the technology we currently have isn't where we need it to be to actually make the country into a sustainable one. The other issue arises that you could take Canada into the stone age literally no emmisions whatsoever and you won't put a dent in climate change. So really it's just a waste of money it'll put Canadians into more hardship and it won't impact anything...so just a waste of time, money and resources.” ==Hydro-Quebec has a research department. The work on battery technology and various things. They collaborate with other labs. Also, for Quebec, if everyone today switches to all EV, there needs to be 1.5 new Romain Power plants built. The Romain is the name of one of their hydro plants. I don’t know how many megawatts it generates. They are building one now or is near completion. Also, last year, they signed a contact with New York. I think it is 24 billion$ worth. They are selling electricity to New York. //Edit: sorry, that is 3.5 Romaine power plants will be needed. I think Romaine-1 is a 1550 W station.
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