Ghaenergyyy's comments

That was not my point. A solar panel is co2 neutral after 3 years and wind in a year.

And if we could build nuclear properly in a reasonable fast way around the globe, i would be for investing it heavily anyway i'm just not controling it in anyway and the only thing actually working is solar, wind and battery.

Low risk, broad spectrum investment (private, small companies, big, basically everyone can)

Batteries in controlled env do not need to be replaced every few years.

Its not that simple.

First of no one is saying its just wind and solar. You say wind, solar and energy storage (batteries).

And second, if more people would buy EVs, we would already have A LOT MORE storage available. My EV has 100kWh and could heat a whole modern build house for 2 full days in winter.

Its not a lot. Pls don't repeat this. Wind and solar turnaround is very fast...

Because a battery will become a lot cheaper and replacing it sooner will still have huge benefits for you financially.

I have a 100kWh battery and can drive with this 3 weeks around without charging at all.

Why would i not want to leverage this?

And results from storage systems show that you can charge and discarge car batteries a lot more often without real degeneration when you do this a lot more stable than when driving.

Also it reduces the overall straine to the power grid. If you fill your cars battery with local solar, you are transporting less energy across the whole grid. If you discharge it locally, again less overall energy which needs to be transfered across the whole grid.

How this would work at scale? easy: in my city for example there is one local power company and they offer a charging solution for my EV. They have a few powerplants locally here too. They have everything they need.

Also overall solar energy prediction for the next day is very good. You can easily save a lot of money by leveraging this up front.

IF solar would be the only thing people do, yes.

Thats just not the case.

Solar is used together with wind and storage.

And there are very little energy systems which rwould relia only on solar. More north you go, there is often water.

Good studies showed that wind doesn't kill birds.

solar on roofs doesn't take anything from local ecosystem. Solar above car parks neither.

Solar on a home is such a simple, affordable and save solution, why are you 'non-fan'? which indicates you hate it? How much are you against it? So much that you prefer burning coal over it?

So a coolant loop can run at 100.000 degree? How?

Yes but not solar or wind.

And YES It is a problem which needs to be fixed, increases risk and costs. Don't say its not a problem.

It has never been easier to create your own company if you have the proper grid.

Reduce your workhours to half day or 80%, spend your evenings and weekends building.

Show your demo around to get more money if your progress is slow.

But technology has never been as accessable as it is today. You have a lptop, a server costs you 50$, a big machine perhaps 100 or 200 / month.

The problem are people who think just having an idea is the main part of creating a product/company.

I have more ideas per day than non technical people and i could make 50% work. Not unicorn work but making enough money for a company money.

Its just a lot nicer to work from mo-fr earning good money and having time for living.

If the example is something like this: "I am non-technical and can handle Sales, Marketing, and Product. " it does seem to be written from a non-technical person.

Ex-meta doesn't mean anything. As far as i know manager / non technical people work at meta as in any other 'tech' company.

The problem is the amount of people not willing to invest into energy storage.

If we would now buy a lot more EVs and make bi-directional charging mandatory, we would have a lot more capacity available 'out of the box'.

Additional investment into grid storage batteries would also add to economy of scale.

But noooo we are to slow, to careflu, we don't like it, we <add your excuse here>

Industry which didn't care for investing into energy at all.

For a car its btw. 1%

In bavaria, chernobyl was an event my parents generation fully experienced.

It was very clear (especially when you watch the old reports, i did a presentation about this in school) people didn't know a lot about nuclear and how to act upon an accident. Kids were not allowed to play on playgrounds, food had to be washed etc.

Even today if you shoot a dear, you have to check it for radiation!

its not strange.

And another reason why politics are stupid: Bavaria is reigned by the CSU. They have the majority for a very long time and the partner CDU was in power for over 16 years. None of them made any long term nuclear power strategy ever.

No one cared to plan longterm enough at all. Building nuclear is not easy and its a lot harder in a country like germany were we want to be extra save.

Even the newest europeon nuclear power plants take very long time. The last one took i think 18 years instead of 10?

You simplify the state of german power import/export.

We did reduce the coal burning from 45% to 23% and not by 'just importing it from poland'.

We importet AND exportet 3 tWh 2023.

And the overall renewable energy part has increased to 25%

Soooooo you think we should stop doing anything just because someone else still outperforms us in this aspect?

This is a very cheap excuse and i can't hear it anymore after hearing this stuipid argument for so long.

Look at all the graphs we have, from ocean temperature graph going up, to co2 going up, to amazonas tree coverage going down etc. etc.

Btw. China does the same thing as every other country: They install more and more solar.

"China continues to lead the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined"

China will have the same pressure or problem as australia has it.

Yes we are patting our backs here because its good news.

Should we continue pushing for more? Yes.

Do we need to spin everything good into anything negative? No.