The Climate Change Thread

[rippimpc]

What a mess in Spain. Looking like first major black out due to intermittency of renewable reliant grid.

 

[fishonjazz]

What a mess in Spain. Looking like first major black out due to intermittency of renewable reliant grid.

Which begs the question, what would a blackout be like if the non renewable energy where to be used up? Infinite blackout?

 

[rippimpc]

Which begs the question, what would a blackout be like if the non renewable energy where to be used up? Infinite blackout?

I think you could build a robust electrical grid with nuclear baseload and renewable peakers with some natural gas backup. As currently designed, removing fossil fuels would send us to the Stone Age.

 

[fishonjazz]

I think you could build a robust electrical grid with nuclear baseload and renewable peakers with some natural gas backup. As currently designed, removing fossil fuels would send us to the Stone Age.

Good thing there is and has been no plan to remove fossil fuels then. Phew!

 

[Sardines]

I think you could build a robust electrical grid with nuclear baseload and renewable peakers with some natural gas backup. As currently designed, removing fossil fuels would send us to the Stone Age.

I'm all for the development of nuclear energy.

Much cleaner, more efficient, infinitely safer today than a few decades ago.

 

[Rubashov]

I'm all for the development of nuclear energy.

Much cleaner, more efficient, infinitely safer today than a few decades ago.

renewables are vastly more cost effective.

 

[rippimpc]

Nuclear needs to get away from bespoke designs to mass production. Costs will come way down.

It will take decades.

 

[rippimpc]

Firming the grid is going to be the next grand challenge.

 

[fishonjazz]

A series of interruptions to the nationwide electrical service of Cuba occurred during the months of February, March, October and December 2024. The blackouts began in February 2024 with power outages that affected nearly half of the country. In March, further blackouts caused widespread protests. On 5–6 October, a third of the country experienced outages. From 18 to 22 October 2024, a total nationwide blackout occurred due to the failure of the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant. The blackouts were the most severe living crisis that the country has experienced since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

 

[LogGrad98]

Dick-tater rewriting science.

National Climate Assessment: Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report | CNN

The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next National Climate Assessment.

amp.cnn.com

 

[fishonjazz]

MSN

A severe weather outbreak that covered a large stretch of the country from Texas to the Northeast turned deadly in Pennsylvania, where at least two people were killed in storm-related electrocutions and nearly 250,000 customers were still without power on April 30.