Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1.  @mike160543  Yep. I don't believe that a seasonal storage solution has emerged, yet. I am not sure about hydrogen. It has very poor physical properties for energy storage. Ammonia and some hydrocarbons are more likely in my opinion. I can imagine molten metal storage. Sodium and aluminum are literally dirt cheap. For thermal storage molten salt, concrete and different kinds of rocks like basalt and granite are feasible. We could literally use old construction debris as heat storage medium.
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  2. Everybody is getting paid because everybody has to pay the rent, kid. The trick on the internet is not to become a troll. I agree with the guy that Electrek hasn't managed that. It didn't start with the Cybertruck, though. I stopped reading them when they began publishing utter crap about cheap Chinese e-bikes.
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  3. What's up with the screaming? ;-)
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  4.  @truecolors6469  It's just mindless screaming.
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  5. Probably not in a relevant way. We are artificially increasing absorption but are then removing more energy through the grid and through the radiation these panels give off during the night time. Overall it's probably mostly a wash unless we start to actively engineer the panels as efficient IR reflectors. The shade does seem to reduce evaporation, though, so plants will grow longer and better underneath panels. Eventually we will probably need this effect to offset the increasingly more arid conditions in the South of the US due to global warming. I have seen one science study that estimated the cooling in the Sahara due to increase in heating during the daytime, which I believe draws cold, moist air in from the ocean (we are creating an artificial circulation heat engine, I believe). The article was mostly negative about the impact, if I remember correctly. Even million square kilometer patches hardly seem to make enough of a climate impact to change rainfall substantially.
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  6. He is making fun of Electrek... which is not hard, really. I stopped reading Electrek when they began evangelizing e-bikes as the next mode of transportation. What bullshit. ;-)
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  7. Didn't work back then, won't work now, either. The consumer votes with his wallet.
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