Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" channel.

  1.  @berova  That it takes an enormous investment to get started and that each new model or variant is costly.
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  2. I always look at Oxford PEV because the cost of cells isn't really the worst thing in the UK - installation is expensive. Roof area is also limited. So getting a high efficiency panel makes the most of those other expenses. So e.g. cheap and pure perovskites would not really help much since the dominating cost is the cost of putting them up (scaffolding, labour) and of course the inverter. If the inverters could be cheaper or more durable and there was some way to install without scaffolding the whole market would probably boom.
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  3. All these points against wind power are not quantified and compared so we can't really tell whether to be bothered about them or not. I have read that they are becoming much cheaper whereas nuclear power isn't so all the nuclear fanbois (I am probably one) really have to re-evaluate their insistence that nuclear is the way to go. It looks like wind+solar+storage+ a bit of nuclear might be what happens.
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  4. Just to be a pedant "high pressure" would be better than "high PSI" for the worldwide audience.
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  5. They remind me of Chinese Greenhouses - minus the reused bottles and tyres of course. That makes me think about how one might roll down a blanket at night to keep the heat in. I've seen a video about someone doing this in Canada - his greenhouse has a double plastic wall with the blanket rolling down over the inner one. It also has vibrating machines to get the snow off. I imagine that one might build a fairly standard house inside something like that - effectively a dome. It's not a new idea of course.
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  6. It will change the game off planet for sure. :-) That might be quite an extreme change of game.
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  7. They obviously are only a small additive feature that's going to help a bit. I don't see why we shouldn't make use of them even if they are only a small part of our eventual solution. Some "free" energy is better than none.
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