Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "This $2B Solar Farm Just FAILED - You WON'T Believe WHY" video.
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“still pushing for natural gas and nuclear plants instead of wind and solar”
Ummm… solar NEEDS natural gas peaker plants.
Computer data centers require constant power 24x7, well suited for nuclear.
Electric car fast chargers (40% of US residents rent, so charging at home is mostly for the wealthier home owner) get peak usage right before the sun comes up and at the end of the work day as the sun is going down, slightly missing the solar curve, requiring natural gas peaker plants.
Air conditioning and heating costs exist when the sun goes down, people return home, and there is no sunlight for PV panels. Sure, we need batteries, with their hazardous materials, but we are no where near where we must be to recycle them. Batteries have a relatively short life expectancy when heavily used. Recycling batteries required incredible amount of heat energy, which is never accounted for in efficiency ratings.
Sure, batteries to supplement power sounds good, but this brings a whole new issue.
We need energy solutions with no hazardous materials & easy/efficient to recycle.
Lead acid is easy to recycle, with north of 98% recycled, but load acid still has hazardous materials. Lithium is the worst of both worlds, with lithium in water linked to autism in children, close to 95% is dumped & leaching into water supplies, and recycling still has hazardous materials remaining for anything disposed of.
Maybe salt batteries. 🙏🏼
Wind kills birds, as does thermal. Wind mills still have a recycling problem. Wind blade recycling is a nightmare, with huge wind blade dump yards appearing around the globe.
All energy is dirty & dangerous. Carbon based fuels are still the best for recycling, if we could just grow more green plants to recycle CO2, capture CO2 to turn into fuel directly, and just be more efficient… but people are still producing more CO2 than is being recycled.
Hydrogen looks like a good bet for recycling. ♻️ If only H2 production was not linked to solar ☀️, wind 💨 , natural gas, oil, and coal. Tidal production of H2 looks like it could be a truly viable solution, since H2 can be stored, transported, and conversion to energy can be done in low-tech combustion or through high tech fuel cells — allowing for a gradual ramp up of existing well recycle ♻️ technology to newer technology.
Honestly, the recycling is the biggest problem we are not taking seriously enough. Anyone who says we have a solution is either disingenuous or ignorant.
We need more energy. Period. We need it all. We need to figure out how to recycle ♻️ whatever remains. What recycles best should be increased, what recycles worst should be minimized. We need all energy forms, to avoid crisis when there is a bottleneck (example bottlenecks included: 1970’s embargo, power line constraint in California, polar vortex which caused blackouts in Texas & Mexico, electrical outage across North East & which extended into Canada, etc.)
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@joshuanine7690 - batteries 🔋 today are not eco friendly.
Old lead acid are 98%+ recycled. Lead causes learning delays in children. Lead is easily recycled. Lead offers fewer deep cycles until retirement.
Lithium ion are ~5% recycled. Lithium in water is linked to autism in children. Lithium batteries require high temperature to recycle. Lithium offers greater deep cycles until retirement.
Today, toxic lithium batteries dominate renewable energy, and this is currently a huge recycling problem, now.
Maybe Redux Flow. Easily recycled. Huge capacity increase by increasing tank size. Most commercial electrolytes are toxic today.
NiCd are toxic, I recycle them, most people don’t. Fallen out of common use due to toxicity.
NiMh are less toxic, falling out of common use, for more toxic lithium batteries.
Maybe salt batteries. These seem like the least risky, most eco friendly, but they are not there yet.
Honestly, batteries are not where they need to be, for massive grid scale deployment. Maybe redux flow, but it is still not eco friendly with toxicity of commonly used electrolytes.
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