Schroedingersat

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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The difference is a solar farm consists of 4 million identical modules and a quarter billion identical cells. If a cell is faulty, it decreases output of that module by 2%. If a module is faulty it either decreases the string output by 5% o
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Yes. The capacity factor is a blatant lie given that units 1 & 2 are about 60%, and the costs are an old estimate of overnight cost without escalation or inflation. Comparing overnight costs to final all-in prices is one way nukebros lo
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
> But at the same time, it's kind of odd he didn't notice people from his own side peddling blatant lies. Bit odd not to notice all the lies he's telling even after they're pointed out, he doubles down on them, and th
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The USA quotes AC capacity, costs and power. So a 100MW plant in the US quoted at $110 million including the cost of finance, profit margin, regulatory compliance, insurance and transmission with a capacity factor of 27% has 130MW DC of mod
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The idea that this hasn't been tried repeatedly is a myth.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You're amortising the cost over a time period that is in direct contradiction to reality, at an EAF that is in direct contradiction to reality at a cost of capital that doesn't reflect the likelihood of project failure or early cl
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
> The local Wikipedia says nuclear ramps up or down at 5%/min. This is faster than any other method of generation. How is paying extra to ramp at 5%/min once a day "faster than" being able to switch off in seconds and
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Why do that, when you can just present the surplus/deficit coldest-sunniest day in late spring and pretend it is an essential aspect of all renewable generation?
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You see, that's the greenwashing bit. It's not made from water, it's made from fossil gas. All these schemes to increase demand aren't about making electrolysers to replace existing grey hydrogen, they're ahout sell
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Hydrogen has a GWP of 11. Cube square law also makes small scale hydrogen storage more expensive than batteries. Then you're back to limited niche uses, or needing expensive, leaky distribution. The best use of hydrogen for seasonal ar
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The mirai has worse range, has less power, is heavier, has less internal space, is bigger, requires more mining if rare minerals for fuel cells, lasts fewer miles before replacing the storage/fuel cell system, refuelling for daily use
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
A laptop powerbank cost about as much as those and will run enough lighting to read for days. Lower cost than that, there are C-grade prismatic cells. Usb/12V adapters exist for a single cell as well, although i'm not sure if they
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Rough service incandescent bulbs are exempt and will last decades driven at a quarter power. Sure it's a special order, but it's a special case.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You actually think this is convincing. Wild.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Very nice attempt at gaslighting, but claiming it's "partially spent fuel" and that calling it waste is a lie is like claiming shit is "partially eaten food" because you can still see a couple of corn kernels. It&#x
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
What are you even talking about?
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
> The big lie is calling it waste; "partially spent fuel" is more accurate Which you doubled down on twice, before backpedalling and claiming you never meant that the *other* 99% of the waste wasn't waste and "partial
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
No, see I answered the actual question, which is oil. Which is mass limited. With how much energy would be available to do work at the destination. You jumped to a ship two orders of magnitude larger and then insisted LNG carrying was mass
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
You are attempting to insinuate that reprocessing will eliminate the nuclear waste and obviate mining new U235. It does neither. Stupid semantic games and motte and bailey rhetorical techniques do not change this.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
> Liquid natural gas is less dense than water, so of course ocean transportation of it is not mass limited. Did it really no occur to you that I was referring to transportation of lithium batteries? You were comparing LNG by mass to batt
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Yes. You could have done that rather than comparing to a ship two orders of magnitude larger. That wouldn't have been a ridiculous attempt to mislead.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The relevance is that fertile material is not "partially spent fuel" in any extant fuel cycle. First it does nothing to the fission products (which are the bulk of the radioactive waste by mass). Second turning U238, Pu240, Am241,
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Also false. LNG carriers are volume limited. Hence Q-Max vessels carrying about 100,000 tonnes vs bulk carriers of similar length carrying 400,000 tonnes. Also I said useful energy. Depending on application, electricity is 1.5-5x as useful
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Answering the original question, it's about 10-20x as much usable energy for the oil. So if there's a wind farm 5% of the distance than an oil farm, the cost of the ship part is a wash.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Oil is much more energy dense. Using current gen batteries, this is a cargo of about 1200t for 240MWh Oil would be 13000MWh of chemical energy. Or a replacement for 2000-7000MWh of electricity. It would never be worth transporting electrici
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
The much higher capacity 8000 gross tonne hydrogen carrier can deliver about 1400MWh, after spending 3000MWh filling it up with a bunch of electrolysers then liquifying the hydrogen which you'd have to build a floating platform for.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Now do an LNG tanker the size of a 100TEU feeder ship as an actual comparison.
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
Why are nukebros incapable of comprehending the difference between fissile and fertile?
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by Schroedingersat 3y ago
There is lead too in some, but even if it all somehow teleported out of the module and directly into the soil (as opposed to this never happening) it would be 10% as much as was already in the soil naturally before leaded gasoline was a thi

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