@kaliagainstallodds we could cut the amount of energy in half and still have the same lifestyle, Electric cars go 100-120 miles on the same amount of power as a gallon of gas, you replace a gas power plant with wind and solar and you don't have to worry about any waste heat it's so much extra energy that manatees use the wastewater to keep warm in the winter in Florida. You can keep your house at 62° on a 100° day with solar power and batteries and once you produce them, you can recycle them.
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@Japan That's an interesting way for an import dependent economy to shoot itself in the foot. Solar Is currently over 10% of the electrical demand in Japan. over of half the electrical demand is met by burning coal and LNG. Commodities that if Japan stopped importing it would quickly grind the Japanese economy to a halt.
@the5thColumnist the human brain takes about 10 Watts, the Blackwell GPUs take about 1000w and a full rack of them is about 72, so that's about enough electricity to charge 10 cars on a level 2 charger. But you really should compare it to the 100 watts it takes to keep a human alive.
@ChrisMayLA6 I think that the era of renewable Power experimentation is over and that we're well into the implementation stage. There are good technologies that never catch on the Sterling engine works but is only a niche technology solar and wind have won and I don't think wave power will ever get implemented on a large scale. And I think further funding of the technology takes away from building the transmission needed to fully use the technology. Especially in the UK.
@Climatehistories this is just evidence that Qatar and The United States are worried about stranded assets, liquefied natural gas facilities are super expensive and require 20 to 30 year payback periods and at the rate the EU is installing solar and wind along with heat pumps. It's looking like demand for LNG is going to slump leaving the market uncompetitive for all the new supply.
@Akshay I actually think that's not true anymore, solar and batteries along with wind and batteries are the cheapest source of electricity. They will out-compete any new fossil-based generation. You might be left with a grid where a couple thousand fossil gas bi-fuel generators sit around for almost all of the Year doing nothing. And only turn on a couple of times during the winter, but the grid will be largely carbon free by 2050. And even then if other Tech like geothermal happens perhaps not.
@dripping1911 in places where you can do arbitrage for power prices it's going to keep happening. So much of the power crunch that the American grid is going to be having is based on lack of Peak load supply, and the cheapest solution to a peak load is now battery tech.
@raindrops_and_roses right now Big Data centers and utilities are mainly allowing more flexibility, like agreeing to disconnect from the grid when demand is at its highest and rely on backup batteries or generators during that time. In most circumstances, that would be the hottest day of the year when most people are using their air conditioners right when everyone comes home from work.
@raindrops_and_roses there are ideas to do that but mostly state regulations don't allow it. You could run a data center cheaper than the grid power in Nevada for 99% of the year off grid with batteries and solar. You can get pretty high with solar and wind other places but again if big energy users abandon the grid it might cause a cascade of people leaving the grid forcing the cost I've running the grid onto fewer and fewer people.
@gerrymcgovern all the tools to fix the problems are already available, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has authority over these plans but politicians find energy policies to boring and complicated so the commission gets captured by the only people who have the patience to understand how the system works, and that's the utilities lawyers and The utility commission being understaffed just accepts the recommendations of the utilities. It's like this all over the US.