If only we had the technology to predict solar eclipses!
Or to store electricity in some sort of battery of storage containers.
Burn the witch!
Use the heat to evaporate water and spin a turbine! Wait…
Easier and far more cheaper to just store the engergy in the grid for such a short term outage… batteries are a very expensive short life solution
Meaning solar energy produces 30 gigawats per 2 minutes?
Not bad, should build even more.
He may be counting the 1 kW per square metre of sunlight that reaches the ground, not just the fraction we turn to electricity
in the path of the eclipse
And that’s just a narrow stretch of the country that received the solar eclipse!
When there is only 50% totality, photovoltaic also makes 50% less. You just do not notice it when looking around, because your eyes adjust to the changed brightness. So a photovoltaic produces less for a longer time. What I found, for the 2017 eclipse, was that around 16GW were impacted with at most a reduction of 5GW in one moment.
and im sure the US loses even more grid production capacity when it’s flooded due to the inevitable warming of the ocean too huh?
The sun will consume the Earth in 5 billion years! WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN???
Well if I’m doing anything, it means that I’m functionally immortal, and given 5 billion years, I would very likely have figured out how to get my ass to a safer planet. So I’ll probably raise a toast to the passing of the home world, then move on with my day.
Worst case scenario you take the slow way to another planet. The only limiting factor depends on just how immortal you are. If you don’t need to eat or drink, then you could travel to another planet right now with current technology.
200 000 years in a tiny metal box… God that would be so boring.
You wouldn’t be experiencing more than you wanted. You’d be frozen if still made of meat, or running at whatever subjective speed (probably pretty slowly given the lack of solar power between stars) if you’re in silicon
had to look this idiot up and to the surprise of nobody… he’s a right wing fossil fuel shill.
"…And now they are going after agriculture and of course, denim, which is cotton. Cotton also is deeply rooted in Jim Crow and racism, so that’s another reason to get rid of cotton. But also they want to get rid of cotton in denim because everything causes climate change until they just eliminate people writ large. And then there’ll be no more climate change when we’re all dead, which we may be from the eclipse in a couple of hours. Who knows? When we’re all dead, there’ll be no more climate worries.”
this is the sewerage that seems to flow from his brain.
Yeah, the “PTF” at the end of his username stands for “Power The Future”, the name of his special interest group, which is doublespeak for"do everything possible to avoid acknowledging the climate crisis and the role fossil fuels have played in getting us here."
The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct but the people saying “nah oil belongs in the ocean” have our best interest in mind? Well I fully believe him.
The people saying “we’re destroying our planet and need to stop” want to see all humans go extinct
See this is a little bit of a mischaracterization - the Earth will likely recover from climate change. The human race are the sensitive species here.
We need to rethink our rhetoric to make it clear slowing climate change is for the benefit of humans, not “the earth”
You’re right I forget people don’t realize destroying the planet is like burning your own house down but your house will be fine and you’ll die.
Holy shit.
This ISNT SATIRE???
Ffs
if you can actually stand the insane levels of smarm and bullshit
Fox Across America w/ Jimmy Failla - April 8
seek to 1:42:17 for the disgorgement of this priceless nugget. if you skip around his segment you will also find the usual harrasment of Greta Thunberg and all things sane - but I would not wish to inflict listening to this dreck on anyone.
That should be in an encyclopedia as an example of a strawman argument.
I guess the sun coming up tomorrow isn’t guaranteed for him since he’s all-in on fossil fuels that will destroy the planet anyway.
also hot take: denim is just a shit product.
It’s the modern era, im sure we can produce MUCH more resilient fabrics and cloth items than denim.
Wooooow.
I doubt anyone’s paying him to write that sort of nonsense.
Wackadoodle free association.
when we’re all dead, which we may be from the eclipse in a couple of hours
Holy shit, he channeled The Onion: Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast.
the only solution is that we blow up the moon
With solar powered rockets? We’re doomed!!
Can we tell everyone that Jesus said they need to go to moon first?
Just carve a hole in it so that the sun shines through even during an eclipse. Heck, have fun with it and make it a smiley face so you can see the Man in the Moon better during an eclipse.
Yes, Daniel, a few minutes of eclipse happening every couple years renders solar completely useless. Let’s just keep burning the dead dinosaur juice.
Yeah, if only we could do something about this problem when it reoccurs in 2044…
every couple years
On average it takes about 375 years for an eclipse to happen again in the same spot so it’ll be a while before the US loses solar energy from an eclipse.
Not that I approve the use of dead dino juice, but in theory we can at least make more of that. Coal is done. Once we use it up, we cannot make more of the stuff, since it’s what happened when the trees didn’t have bacteria that could break them down. They damn near caused a climate crisis with their own corpses.
Don’t you know? We’re going to have eclipses every day now, and that means solar power will be ineffective everywhere for all time over 2 hours of reduced output
implementation which works 99.99% of the time
Republicans: “It’s broken and bad”
stand for nothing.
Wait until he discovery day and night.
I mean, does this person know what happens at NIGHT?
Watts are a unit of power, not a unit of energy. The claim is nonsense to the core.
I have no idea about the actual number, but saying the power is decreased by 30 GW does make sense, though… Of course it is not energy, but they might not have meant “solar energy” in the sense of a physical quantity. The sentiment is bullshit of course.
But even then only for a few minutes at each solar energy plant
Sure. It is an effect that has been taken into account by government agencies and grid operators, though: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61743
The good thing is you can predict it extremely accurately, probably much better than cloud cover…
ok so technically, a watt is directly convertable to a joule, which is a unit of energy. So he isn’t wrong. But he is also wrong because he is using name plate production capacity, rather than the total produced capacity, that or he is simply fucking up the numbers. But lets be honest, homie is NOT doing the math.
A watt is a joule per second - they are not directly convertible.
yes, and this twitter post, (or wherever it comes from) is definitely not representative of the original sites layout in any substantial manner.
“Math is science. Science is the work of the devil” - republicunts
A watt is a joule per second. It is not “directly convertable” any more than mile is the not a speed just because you can divide it by an hour.
Watts are power, the rate at which you can work. Joules are units of energy, how much work you can do.
He is not fucking up the numbers. He is fucking up the units…and so are you
in this scenario it wouldn’t be speed, though, it would be speed over time. Speed is velocity.
Watts are just joules but arbitrarily defined. Joules are a unit of total energy. A collective amount of work potential. Watts are an in situ measurement of those joules doing work.
If we want to talk about confusing units, W and VA are the units to be talking about.
A watt is a joule per second. It is not “directly convertable” any more than mile is the not a speed just because you can divide it by an hour.
Watts are power, the rate at which you can work. Joules are units of energy, how much work you can do.
He is not fucking up the numbers. He is fucking up the units…and so are you.
Wait until this moron finds out how many GiGaWaTts we will lose after sunset
What a Gigatwat
30GW out of how much Daniel? We need some proper stats from Koch’s mouthpiece.
Yes let’s not invest in green energy because checks notes once every 20 years we will lose a fraction of a percentage of solar energy for about 4 minutes.
Also not for nothing but wind energy actually picks up during that time and generally for a few days before and after too.
His followers are the literal caveman pointing wojack.
“Number big!! Number big!!”
If only human invent a way to store electricity. 🤔
Or even just transport it over large distances. Oh well, guess we’ll just be stuck using candles forever.
Not even large distances. From some quick googling, the umbra is only 100 to 160 km wide. For everywhere else, it would be the equivalent of a cloudy day. And this only lasts for minutes.
I missed out on about 5kwh. Guess I’ll start pulling the panels off the roof now.
This is unironically the standard corporate response to any temporary slowing of growth.
Why wouldn’t it be? They already took the subsidy and got the green washing. They can switch back to the grid and move it to the expense line on the P&L. And sell the hardware to recoup the difference in cost the subsidy didn’t cover.
You can’t just wait for government funds to come to you. You have to take it before your competition does. And if you exhaust the funds before they or anyone else can take advantage, you look better to the market. Stock price go up.
