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Sep 2021
7:20pm, 4 Sep 2021
10,715 posts
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jda
Solar. And some other renewables. But solar will certainly be dominant on the global scale. It’s already cheaper than anything else in much of the world.
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Sep 2021
7:23pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,230 posts
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Dooogs
HG can answer for himself, I'm sure, but I presume 90%+ of electricity generation would be from renewable (solar / wind / water) with the eCars being used primarily for demand-balancing and remote leccy storage...
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Sep 2021
7:24pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,231 posts
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Dooogs
It's a good question, actually- in the UK, should development focus on sun, wind, water or a balance of all three?
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Sep 2021
7:26pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,050 posts
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FenlandRunner
Love to see the numbers that prove that, and also what about the cost of making the devices to turn 'natural' into leccy?
And we're a bit f*cked in the UK. Where I live has had the one of the dullest Augusts on record, so that rules out solar.
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Sep 2021
7:27pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,051 posts
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FenlandRunner
Should I be buying shares, creating a company in the Sahara to export leccy?
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Sep 2021
7:31pm, 4 Sep 2021
10,716 posts
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jda
Numbers that prove what? There was a map I saw years ago showing the areas of a few spots in deserts around the world that could provide total energy consumption globally. Of course in reality it won’t be organised that collectively, but the potential is not in doubt. Storage and transport are still nontrivial problems but of course that’s improving rapidly.
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Sep 2021
7:35pm, 4 Sep 2021
10,717 posts
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jda
The cost of the devices is already covered in the price of solar power being a couple of cents per kWh in parts of the USA for example. Nothing is free of course but panels last a fair while with little maintenance cost.
What is the cost of decommissioning a nuclear power station 40 years down the line? Answers on a postcard to Her Majesty’s Govt please.
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Sep 2021
7:38pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,053 posts
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FenlandRunner
Again, being devils advocate, how 'free' is the infrastructure to transport the leccy from areas of high solar to low solar?
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Sep 2021
7:50pm, 4 Sep 2021
7,055 posts
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FenlandRunner
Is "100 kW - DC battery charging" a worthy option?
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Sep 2021
7:23am, 5 Sep 2021
39,615 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Obv I meant electricity generation by fossil fuels - coal and gas. Was kind of implied in the sentence start saying "fossil fuels"! FR.  G
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