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Subject: Nuclear power debate: yes or no?
profitable to harvest energy for Europe in the Sahara.
The Sahara is a reliable source of energy if you want to use the sun, during daytime it is ;) But in many places the sun and wind can be used only when it's there. With these solarfields, but also windparks, there are always powerstations needed to compensate the drops (we don't want power fluxuation on electrical lines). And because powerstations can't just be turned off it's always producing electricity, burning fuel and making money. That's why the current energy-providers love these options. Not only they can build windparks and solarfields but also powerstations. It's a win-win situation for them. Not that strange Nuon en Shell build a windpark together knowing this ;)
Tidal energy and geothermal energy are true reliable energysources that don't need backup powerstations as the sources they use are always predictable. The current energy-providers won't like these options as they have to change the core business completely and that's not what businesses want because it will cost a lot of money. They will lobby for what they know and will even try to stop the competition in every way.
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The Sahara is a reliable source of energy if you want to use the sun, during daytime it is ;) But in many places the sun and wind can be used only when it's there. With these solarfields, but also windparks, there are always powerstations needed to compensate the drops (we don't want power fluxuation on electrical lines). And because powerstations can't just be turned off it's always producing electricity, burning fuel and making money. That's why the current energy-providers love these options. Not only they can build windparks and solarfields but also powerstations. It's a win-win situation for them. Not that strange Nuon en Shell build a windpark together knowing this ;)
Tidal energy and geothermal energy are true reliable energysources that don't need backup powerstations as the sources they use are always predictable. The current energy-providers won't like these options as they have to change the core business completely and that's not what businesses want because it will cost a lot of money. They will lobby for what they know and will even try to stop the competition in every way.
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How to Make an Inexpensive Vertical Wind Turbine :P
Rather than learning how to power a small light bulb in ideal weather conditions on Youtube, you could spend 50 mins on this educating documentary from BBC. :)
Link to part 1 of 5 - link to the rest by following this one:
Edit: Whoops, the final minutes are missing on Youtube. The entire documentary can be found here instead.
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Link to part 1 of 5 - link to the rest by following this one:
Edit: Whoops, the final minutes are missing on Youtube. The entire documentary can be found here instead.
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My Engineering class made 5 for a project. It barely powered a small LED sign when it was windy ;)