Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
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@DamonHD @CottonCandyandRazorblades @randahl
Wind turbines don’t cause massive environmental damage if and when they do catch fire.@KimSJ @CottonCandyandRazorblades @randahl indeed not! I am a big renewables fan.
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
X: The wind is not always blowing.
Me: The wind is always blowing somewhere.
X: Yes, but if we need the energy here then we need to transport this energy.
Me: So?
X: It is expensive to transport energy, it is inefficient, and it makes you dependent on the cooperation of other countries.
Me: And where is the oil from the gas station coming from?
X: Eh....
Me: And how much energy is used to transport all this oil?
X: Eh... -
Oil and natural gas provide feed stocks for much more than just diesel and petrol.
sour crude extracted in the region is a primary source of sulfur. sulfur is a feed stock for sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is a chemical that’s used to extract and refine copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. Oil is an input to a lot of products.
Natural gas and sulfur are also feed stocks for fertilizer.
The global supply chain is the risk
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @randahl yes. “Non energy use” of oil is about 15% of the total 100 million barrels a day. It’s 12% of NG use. But the reason it is a global tool of blackmail and war is the other 85% which can be replaced by renewables and different ways of doing things.
Let’s stay focused on the main problem here. Which is the burning of fossil fuels.
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl@mastodon.social
If only there were energy storage technologies to take one day's excess-generation and make it available for days where there's a generation-shortfall. -
Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl I don't think they "realized" it at all. They certainly experienced it, but I doubt they have made the connection at all.
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl but you can nuke Iran away and have the straight flushed. You can't nuke your turbines /Sarcasm
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl No. No they didn't.
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl I feel alternative energy is Europe’s path to energy independence.
But for wind, how are the dips in wind strength managed? I’ve always wondered.
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl good one
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl And people who object to wealth taxes still want their investment properties protecting from cruise missiles.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @randahl yes. “Non energy use” of oil is about 15% of the total 100 million barrels a day. It’s 12% of NG use. But the reason it is a global tool of blackmail and war is the other 85% which can be replaced by renewables and different ways of doing things.
Let’s stay focused on the main problem here. Which is the burning of fossil fuels.
If you don’t have feed stocks, eg sulfur or methane, you don’t have the global economy.
alternatives cost a lot more. After 20 or so iterations, 90% recycling you’re down to 10% of that resource.
We burn fossil fuels in order to destroy the planet. Swapping to renewables is still destroying the planet.
The different way of doing things is to re-localize economies and stop destroying the planet with a global economy
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If you don’t have feed stocks, eg sulfur or methane, you don’t have the global economy.
alternatives cost a lot more. After 20 or so iterations, 90% recycling you’re down to 10% of that resource.
We burn fossil fuels in order to destroy the planet. Swapping to renewables is still destroying the planet.
The different way of doing things is to re-localize economies and stop destroying the planet with a global economy
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl
People have forgotten how to think, or perhaps never knew how to think. -
Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl @attoparsec I don’t think this is a very good take. Primarily because the people making that argument are being disingenuous to start with, so pointing out the contradiction is a waste of energy and plays into their rhetorical tactics, but also because, at least in the US, their obvious reply is “that’s why we need to drill more domestically”.
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Or the oil refineries and fields are on fire or destroyed
@noondlyt @randahl
Interesting.
When wind does not blow, you still have solar power.
When sun is not shining you still have wind power.
Only when there is no sun and no wind, then you have no power.
If the strait of Hormuz is closed, you have no power.
If the refineries are on fire you have no power.
If Hormuz is closed and refineries are on fire you have even less power.
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@luciedigitalni @Lats @randahl
Not if they have a battery inside. Just any old outlet will do. You have outdated information.
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@randahl I saw someone yesterday say that solar and wind are just as “vulnerable” because so much of it is also shipped through the narrow straits of Malacca(?)…. Ignoring, or ignorant, of the fact that because the energy for renewables actually comes from the sun, only new or replacement solar/wind capacity would potentially be disrupted by this kind of shut down….
The sun would still shine and the wind would still blow, the rivers, magma, and tides would still flow, all no matter how many wars some idiot starts.
@chris @randahl and if #trump controls #StraitOfHormuz you have to pay for energy whatever he deserves.
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@Globob @randahl
> that wind turbines are not a substituteAdd to this solar and in tandem they are. You can even fill up a tank of the combustion engine car with them. [1][2][3].
In Europe we have enough materials dumped to landfills as waste to build a storage facility with a capacity of over 1 TWh storage. Perpetual batteries technology that is (was) with us for more than 100 years. Was because they unearthed research from early forties of the past century that hinted them how to cripplle those batteries using Ca, Sn, and Al additives since 1975 or so (when the first oil prices peak endangered their bottom).
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7970114/ (open) CO₂ -> CH₄
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-023-01314-8 (paywalled) CO₂ -> C₃H₈
[3] https://deltaliquidenergy.com/turning-the-tide-on-co2-emissions-the-path-to-renewable-propane/ [abstract of above]@ohir @randahl Solar + wind isn’t the answer in Germany or Netherlands according to simple analysis of real-time datasets
https://energyasicit.ca/WindModel/
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Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.
@randahl
Although wind cannot be stopped by men and it is always blowing somewhere. -
@ohir @randahl Solar + wind isn’t the answer in Germany or Netherlands according to simple analysis of real-time datasets
https://energyasicit.ca/WindModel/Pb-PbSO₄ batteries 80Wh/dm3, 8kWh/m3, lead: 7kg/dm3, 7t/m3
The suburban mall parking lot of 30x50m stuffed 1.5m under surface with 1m high plates gives 12MWh storage, 10MWh safe.
Highway verge 4m wide with same 1m high plates under give 32MWh per km. You can store 3TWh of above chart under some 100km of your nearest Autobahn unused otherwise grassy verge. If you'd put your battery under sides you could have 3TWh spread over some 50km.
For 3TWh you would need 2.800.000t of lead. Considering current data [1] it would be 15-20 years of the WASTE tailings processing. I.e. getting all that lead off the landfills where it goes now. If copper ore processing would care more about lead output, I think (did not digged enough), we could do such storage in 10 years.
Once again: Pb-PbSO₄ batteries are perpetual. They can last millenia. They excel at short cycles unlike lithium/sodium technology. There is a two magnitudes less toxic waste of their production than with lithium technology. You can regenerate them in-situ in fully automated way (as this is almost pure mechanical process).
And all that lead once sealed in the battery plate/case poses no toxic threat to the environment (unlike the tailings being on the landfill).
