Let's discuss power stations and power generation. Do you live nearby to power station? Post pics. How does your cunt generate it's electrical power? Which is best and why? Coal, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, tidal, geothermal? Do you believe in renewables vs coal & gas? Is nuclear power the answer to low carbon energy?
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Julian Myers
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Alexander Adams
I have a domestic geothermal generator and a solar generator.
There are two ways of developing nuclear power.
One is fission and the other is fusion.
South Korea has declared to dismantle its fission plant and is studying nuclear fusion.
In conclusion, fission plants are not a good solution in terms of construction costs, waste and operating electricity.
Connor Phillips
I libe next to nuclear plennt and I am perfctly healthy and fine i luv go store with mom and do dance and hev funs
Matthew Hall
>Which is best and why?
none is optimal
even the "eco-friendly" solar panels require too big surfaces and use toxic materials in their constructions
>coal
why that shit is still allowed? move to gas or nuclear already
>I have a domestic geothermal generator
lol whut? tell us more
Joseph Diaz
he government is providing free supply to new multi-family homes with the goal of saving energy.
However, they are less efficient than i think, so we only use water to boil it.
Juan Gomez
>he ->our
There was a mistake.
Sorry
Nathan Reyes
Here's mostly hydro, there are some wind ones in the northeast and in Rio they use nuclear.
Gabriel Ortiz
>domestic geothermal generator
Show us pics
Dominic Richardson
this is added to the basic boiler system.
It is buried underground so you can turn off the power in the room.
Jaxon Perez
Of course it's still a little bit big.
Ryder Cox
Oh, it's a heat exchanger, that's just for heating right or does it produce electricity?
James Baker
Hydro is good stfu nigger
Justin Turner
It is only used to maintain the boiler.
I don't think we can make that much electricity.
Benjamin Lee
That's pretty cool that your government is helping out, looks like it's an investment
Fortunately we don't have to heat our homes over here so we can make do with solar for water heaters, still most people buying new homes don't want to adopt it even if its cheaper
Liam Fisher
yeah but how does it work??
oh!
only if you have big, strong rivers (we do, but they don't)
not to mention that the reservoir fucks up nature by flooding the area and displacing local fauna & flora (and by fauna i also include injuns)
Caleb Turner
We are having difficulty switching to renewable because we have a tonne of coal and coal mine companies are in bed with our current government. I think we might be one of the most ideal countries for solar though
Matthew Cook
No fusion research?
I heard you guys bought us some technology.
Lincoln Gomez
That's not a generator Kim.
Connor Ortiz
We are kind of in the same boat only for us is mostly oil. It's ridiculous, we could produce more than enough water for our environment and population but government policies are idiotic, we are apparently building refineries even as the Canadians are giving up on their installed capacity on it just being unprofitable.
Connor Long
i am Shin
and It can make some electricity.
Actually it also charges my electric car
Mason Flores
Are electric cars cheap in korea?
Jeremiah Richardson
No, it's expensive.
Instead, I bought my car because it is still exempt. tax
Jaxson Russell
I really have my doubts. Do you live in a vulcanic area or what?
How hot does the water get?
Brandon Jones
No I don't.
Mostly coal, partly gas, tiny fractions is solar or wind.
Best is nuclear with thorium as of now.
Best overall? Fusion or using the earth's heat.
I believe renewable should be used where it's effective, Africa and Arab countries should use their vast deserts
Luis Ramirez
Except for the central region, Korea has volcanoes.
But there's been no explosion for over 600 years now.
Many islands in Korea are made of volcanoes.
Grayson Ramirez
Horsed powered carriages here
Basado
Lincoln Taylor
Fusion is 3 decades away from commercial in the best of scenarios, it's not going to come in time to help us through the worst of climate change.
Cameron Mitchell
I also know that because the land maintains a certain temperature, development by temperature difference is possible.
Ian Cook
Nolan Bailey
/hydro/ for us, fossil for everyone else
Isaac Collins
First time i've heard of geothermal being used on a domestic scale, but if there's abundant heat available then why not i suppose?
Isn't it really exensive though? What heat engine is used to convert heat into electricity?
Noah Jones
Actually, I don't know well.
The government came and installed it on its own.
However, it is used well in small amount.
Perhaps the publicity stunt was strong.
Nathan Wilson
I'm sorry. I don't know anything.
I don't think it's been very helpful.
Nathaniel Wood
I live next to this dam, there's around 35 dams on the Columbia river, we generate plenty of power for ourselves and sell the majority of it to California and Oregon
Blake Ramirez
They are quite common in Finland, you don't need volcanic acticity for them. Never heard of one that can produce electricity tho
Evan Ortiz
My state gets it's power mainly from coal and natural gas. I think all power should come from renewables and nuclear by 2030 ideally.
Jordan Morales
well all electric generators have this spinny thingie that produces electricity, right? and the spinning force origin is what separates them, i suppose?
i guess geothermal is like coal? (vapor from heated water makes the spinny thing spin)
btw MAYBE in the future there will be more demand of coal to make artificial diamonds thus all those mining businessmen don't need to close up their mines
Michael Gomez
In British Columbia most of our electricity comes from hydroelectric dams. I think we also burn LNG, but I think its a very small amount compared to our hydroelectric energy.
I know that in the other flat parts of the country, they use nuclear CANDU reactors to make electricity.
Landon Taylor
You're sure you're not confusing it with a heat pump? Those are two different things.
>Never heard of one that can produce electricity tho
Because generating hot water is piss easy, electricity from hot water not so much.
Andrew Williams
>i guess geothermal is like coal? (vapor from heated water makes the spinny thing spin)
This is correct, spinny thing is called a turbine
You can use heat pumps to create electricity but I don't think they ever got that concept down to a commercial scale, let alone for domestic use. Maybe they just have some token amount of co-generation via te pump and like the Korean user admitted they may be overhyping that.
I doubt they get more electricty out of that than they put in.
Hudson Mitchell
I confused them, my bad.
Gabriel Harris
I was baffled to hear there are countries that still use coal. I thought everyone had moved to hydro or nuclear during the mid 20th century
Sebastian Thomas
Germany closed down all their nuclear plants and replaced them with coal, now they're a clean country that no longer depends on evil nuclear power :)
David Turner
The decisions arent ruled only by logic. Some time ago there was massive campaign in czechia to increase solar power production, paid by massive state dotations. Some smart enterpreteurs bought shitload of some chink made bootleg panels and planted them in a field. They got huge stack of money for it, much more than was actual cost of panels (because the dotation was supposed to pay maintenance as well for some time). Once they got the money, they let the panels rust and grow over with weeds (because they didnt actually want to make power but just to make money). As a result, little new energy was produced but its cost spiked in order toc ay for the dotations
Tyler Sanders
I live nearby (well, 45 minutes away) and work at Forsmark here in Sweden as a safety and maintenance technician.
I think nuclear and hydro is the best options for us here in Sweden. No doubt about it.
Dylan Price
What do you do with nuclear waste in Sweden?
Luis Carter
A company called SKB together with Forsmark as the leading power plant takes care of it.
Here is the info
skb.com
It works well and we have not had any problems so far.
John Baker
I don't exactly live near it but there's a geothermal power plant in my state that produces about 50% of the energy for the entire state.
John Murphy
>SKB is therefore planning to construct a Spent Fuel Repository
Same as in Noth America then
Jeremiah Bailey
Pretty much. We have actually been conversing with the American partners we have and come to a "universal" plan for disposing of the waste.
We have already begun the building of the deep storage. That's pretty much all I know since the location is under secrecy while in construction.
Andrew Williams
>How does your cunt generate it's electrical power?
Mostly from oil shale. It´s this coal-like material that has a lower heating value than black or brown coal and leaves a shit load of ash behind after combustion. No other country uses as much of it as Estonia because it´s a very shitty fuel. But it keeps us as a net electricity producer and we make oil out of it for ship fuel. We get a lot of energy from biomass as well because of climate and environment and shit.
>Which is best and why?
A mix of different sources is the best solution.
>Do you believe in renewables vs coal & gas?
We have to switch to renewables sooner or later. Coal is very bad for the environment unless you use some state of the art technologies. Natural gas is a great fuel, but getting it out of the ground without fucking up the environment is getting harder.
>Is nuclear power the answer to low carbon energy?
It´s a great energy source but it´s fucking expensive at the moment if you want it to be safe.
This is just a heat pump with solar panels. The heat pump heats/cools the house.
Not everyone is blessed with gigantic rivers.
Robert Jackson
They looked at tidal power not far from here, but the project never got the go-ahead because it was deemed too expensive. Pretty cool idea though.
Caleb Hughes
it's also a meme