Player2 on 18 December 2016
| fatslob-:O said: Too bad that fossil fuels are cheaper than solar energy in most of the United States ... |
Fossil fuels are cheaper than solar in all of USA for now... as long as you bow to the Saudis.
| fatslob-:O said: Solar Power has no foreseeable future as a big supplier in developed nations, eh ? |
Because in developed countries demand is already covered and it would be idiotic to spend a ton of money to replace the current fossil fuel plants with something else as long as oil is cheap.
| fatslob-:O said: The other thing that pisses me off about so called "renewable" alternatives to energy is that their intermittent and that we'd need expensive batteries to store that energy if we want to be self sustaining from fossil fuels ... |
Molten salt energy storage efficiency was 93% seven years ago on the first plant it was used and improving. It uses a mix of salts commonly used as fertilizers like Calcium Nitrate, which are quite cheap. I don't know if further preparations are required for their use in a solar plant, but you can buy them at about $250 per metric ton online.
| fatslob-:O said: Extreme environmentalists will never be able to break off dependence from traditional sources of energy no matter how hard they wish it LOL ... |
I dunno, I wouldn't bet against silicon after what we've seen in the last decades.
