Climate Change

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

We can generate up to 20% of our power from solar. Putting solar cells on roofs will solve our needs for the next 5-7 years. Hopefully by then we will have much better batteries that will open the door to get 40% of our power from solar.

In 20 years it is conceivable that Nuclear Fusion will be an economically viable solution.

I like solar much more than wind, which has serious impact upon wildlife. I also like ground source heat pumps.

I seriously doubt Nuclear will ever return. With 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and that Japanese Tsunami meltdown, we have a whole generation of Millennials ready to protest. Also, look how NoKo and Iran used their "power" needs to secretly develop nukes.

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Originally Posted by Ohio

I like solar much more than wind, which has serious impact upon wildlife. I also like ground source heat pumps.

I seriously doubt Nuclear will ever return. With 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and that Japanese Tsunami meltdown, we have a whole generation of Millennials ready to protest. Also, look how NoKo and Iran used their "power" needs to secretly develop nukes.

Solar is extremely convenient because you can put it at the end user, as a result we don't need to pay for transmission costs. In addition, by putting it on your roof you take energy that would have become heat and thus raised your cooling bill or increased the heat island effect of cities and turn it into electricity. Two very big benefits. Also, because the energy generation is distributed among a multitude of sites you are actually making US energy production more secure in the event of an attack or act of terrorism.

However, unless we make significant breakthroughs in batteries we will only be able to generate 25% of our power from solar, at the absolute best case scenario. If you add wind to that mix you would increase the total % because wind blows at night as well as during the day. The best place for wind is on the ocean about a half mile from the shore. That would be ideal for 70% of the world's population.

That said, the real future of energy is fusion. I base that on the NJ which "has no need of the Sun".

German Nuclear Fusion Experiment Sets Records for Stellarator Reactor

With new materials like graphene and new quantum computers and AI we should have this thing finally running economically.

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A private nuclear-fusion company has heated a plasma of hydrogen to 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) in a new reactor for the first time — hotter than the core of the sun. UK-based Tokamak Energy says the plasma test is a milestone on its quest to be the first in the world to produce commercial electricity from fusion power, possibly by 2030.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/heatwaves...104056769.html

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https://www.perc.org/2016/07/21/clea...c-perspective/

The average number of structures destroyed by wildfire per year in the US has increased 20 fold from the 1960s to this present decade.

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Japan hit 106 degrees last Monday, its hottest temperature ever. Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Texas. And then there’s crazy heat in Europe, where normally chill Norway, Sweden and Finland all saw temperatures they have never seen before on any date, pushing past 90 degrees. So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have been set or tied across the globe, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Japan hit 106 degrees last Monday, its hottest temperature ever. Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico and Texas. And then there’s crazy heat in Europe, where normally chill Norway, Sweden and Finland all saw temperatures they have never seen before on any date, pushing past 90 degrees. So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have been set or tied across the globe, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Even if there were no fossil fuels, the weather patterns would be going crazy ... "For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope the creation itself will be liberated from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time."