Blair
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- Comment on The world's most powerful tidal turbine - but can our grid handle it? 2 months ago:
Thank you so much! You and that post answered my questions perfectly
- Submitted 2 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 4 comments
- Comment on Kinetic Energy 👟⚡️ 3 months ago:
That quote was for the shoes
- Comment on Kinetic Energy 👟⚡️ 3 months ago:
I didn’t mean it as a advert (I even pointed out that more work needs to be done on efficiency), I just wanted to share an energy generation possibility that most people don’t know is a thing. I apologize that my wording came off as so bias
- Submitted 3 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 12 comments
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- Comment on The Power of 💩 3 months ago:
I tried looking it up, and most sources still say that cold-weather heat pumps only work until -30c, which still isn’t cold enough when parts of my province reached -50c. I am not saying I don’t believe you, just that I would like to know more haha. According to this, Norway is pretty comparable climate wise to the Canadian averages, but Canada does get colder, so I hope it’s not just that.
Heat pumps are gaining in popularity here, just not on their own yet.
- Comment on The Power of 💩 3 months ago:
I agree that solar and heat pumps are better! However, heat pumps and electric vehicles lose effectiveness as the temperature drops. So, when it reaches -40c here, the people who own heat pumps still need their furnace as a backup. Most the time heat pumps are fine, but right now backup heat is still needed for those cold snaps or they risk the cold and their pipes freezing and bursting.
So the idea is to use a renewable source of methane as that fuel until it’s no longer needed(and stopping waste pollution while doing it).
- Comment on The Power of 💩 3 months ago:
The main difference is that it would be moving from non-renewable sources to renewables. As well as that, the methane is already there being released, it’s just right now we don’t use it and instead a large portion of the world just dumps it into the ocean or rivers untreated. So it would be turning human waste pollution into fuel and fertilizer instead of contaminating water sources and releasing the methane.
In cold climates, heat pumps don’t work when it’s gets to -40c, so people who own them have gas furnaces as a backup. The same happens with electric vehicles; their range drops with the temperature, and some stopped working a few days last winter.
SO that’s why human waste is considered a “transition fuel.” It’s an option to supplement other energy sources until we have what we need to transition away for good.
- Submitted 3 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 9 comments
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