thinkstoomuch wrote:Just a drive by. For what little it is worth. I have not posted for a while.
President Carter in the late 70's said we would be out of oil by 2000. He had lots of scientist for back up. Sucked me in...for a while.
More useless scare mongering. Like children will not know what snow is. Ect.
As with all discussion in regards to "peak oil", it should be noted that all those discussions hinges on known oil reserves, current science and available technology to extract them.
The problem is that when conclusions are published in "popular media" a lot of context is missing, and flashy head-lines sells.
So blame any "scare-mongering" on the media.
thinkstoomuch wrote:Funny how the summer trip this year was powered by a gasoline motor in the motorcycle(oh all right 10% could have been ethanol

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Funny how I can get to work everyday on electrical vehicles even when the sun doesn't shine, which just like your quip is a non sequitur in the debate.
thinkstoomuch wrote:How much is a kWH of solar worth at midnight when I wake up for a snack?
Another non sequitur, but let me ask this: How good does that snack taste when about 3.8 million old oil-wells leak methane into the atmosphere and contaminates the ground water, and it's the tax-payers that have to foot the bill for the clean up?
thinkstoomuch wrote:PS My electric bill is currently about the same price as 2007. Virtually no solar(though that is changing they are adding PV now) and local utility replaced most of the generating plants with CCGT. CCGT being much kinder to make up for the variability of solar. In addition to getting permits to operate nuke plants another 20 years. 80 years now.
All grids need a steady base-load system, CCGT is one but it's still a bit slow to handle variability which is why investment in battery-storage pays for itself within a couple of years.
thinkstoomuch wrote:Unlike CA ISO which dumped almost 1.5 TWH of solar curtailment so far this year. Added 1.5 TWH (almost up to 14%(used) of the total, now) of Solar this year and over a third of it got dumped on the ground when compared to last year. Oh and closing on 100 GWH of wind power dumped on the ground as well.
Badly handled in my opinion, but perhaps the national grid need a revamp since over-production in one area should easily be diverted elsewhere. Or perhaps used to produce fresh-water, since it seems there's a constant water-shortage in CA.