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Technology / Re: How can renewable energy farms provide 24-hour power?
« on: 03/09/2019 17:16:04 »ie Lake Titicaca 4000m high borders Peru and Bolivia.
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South America – GREAT for Renewable Energy
Put Lake Titicaca for pumped-storage together with the Atacama Desert for solar PV, Patagonia for wind power and the Amazonian etc rainforests for biomass and conventional hydroelectricity and South America would seem to be blessed by natural renewable resources (and therefore riches) which are second to none in the world.
If South America can get their political act together and link those renewable energy assets up, they could supply the world energy market very profitably.
It would be easy enough to make synthetic fuels from South American renewable energy and ship them all over the world.
It would even be possible – now hold onto your hat – to run a 6,000 mile long distance power transmission cable from Lake Titicaca (as the obvious central hub for South America’s renewable energy distribution network) to Europe
For Biomass to work it needs to be commercial viable.Biomass for stand-by back-up power could be made commercially viable by the government and OFGEM requiring the National Grid to contract for stand-by back-up power from biomass power stations.
Alternatively, biomass would also work as a nationalised industry.
It is fossil fuel back-up power that will never work to complete the transition to 100% renewable energy but forever to delay it.
Biomass ... requires fertile land near to the generation plantsActually, Drax Power Station in England imports its biomass fuel from North America.
perhaps nuclear fusion might work at some distant point in the futureThe only nuclear fusion technology that works is nuclear weapons.
For energy generation, the Sun is the only nuclear fusion reactor that we need.
But Is this the scots man coming out in you, looking for the cheapest alternative, 2nd hand power stations!.It is the scientist in me who has looked for and found the cheapest and quickest 100% renewable energy solution.
It would be absolutely cheaper in the terms understood by Englishman Ebenezer Scrooge to neglect the terrible cost to the environment of burning fossil fuel natural gas for decades more, as advocated by the foolish Tory boys who misgovern the UK's energy policy.
The Scot in me would like to take this opportunity to celebrate our common English language spoken and often correctly spelled all across these British Isles.
all there sugarall their sugar
none renewablenon-renewable
desserts and large scale solar powerdeserts and large-scale solar power
Serious Question has anyone ever tried to develop a small scale biomass generation station. something like Combined heat and power sometimes used in hospitals. Maybe could be scaled to individual environmentally minded peoples pockets. allowing more people to go off grid.Could this little-known biomass generator start an energy revolution?