RE: Renewable Energy: Correcting Some of the Myths
Thanks for your comments and yes, your English is perfectly understandable. I am extremely hopeful that we will continue to improve and implement better storage capabilities so that base-load problems can be contained. Of course, there are a great many well-funded companies (with incredibly smart people) working on these solutions. However, a transition even when these technologies come online will be difficult to come by quickly. The costs of retrofitting existing infrastructure is difficult. A great example of this is the heating systems in old European cities with "radiators" for heat. We have had the technology for 5 decades to change the system of pumping hot water into homes to keep them heated and yet these antiquated methods are still being used. Another example are phone services in the U.S., which for some reason still contain "dead zones" of cellular coverage in populated areas. Just because the technology exists doesn't mean that the transition will come quickly. Keep in mind that the U.S. is the richest country in the world and it still hasn't adopted best available technologies in many areas. It is one of the many reasons that we will NOT move away from fossil fuels in my lifetime or my children's lifetime.
Thank you for your kind reply, in addition to my comment before and your new one let me say the old Oil-league is also not coming up in just e few years it took decades to bring them where they are today.
So it´s silly to expect the renewable will do change market in a few years but actually there is a huge offer in GWh all around the globe and it´s getting more and more each day.
The only thing what has to be solved is the bottleneck in adapting smart storage solutions to existing renewable plants in the first line. In the second line there must be a transformation of the technologies in the fueling sector for cars (refers also to hydrogen).
Solutions for performing the grid online with this mentioned system are already in the market, so I and my kids believe that we will se bigger steps in this direction in the next decade and the following one´s
With sunny greetings from Andalusia
Don Thomas
In Germany, you will probably see a great deal of improvement, but you won't see the end of fossil fuels. Too much has to be done in the way of transport and manufacturing to get rid of these yet. And Germany will be in the lead because they have made it a huge priority. The rest of world will follow, but not quickly.
In Germany, you will probably see a great deal of improvement, but you won't see the end of fossil fuels. Too much has to be done in the way of transport and manufacturing to get rid of these yet. And Germany will be in the lead because they have made it a huge priority. The rest of world will follow, but not quickly.
Sorry @energyaddict22 for not responding to you, but I thought I had answered already -oops but it wasn´t so- ! Sorry again for that.
So far regarding your reply in first yes maybe the Germans will see some greater movements, but they lost a lot of their leading manpower in special mostly the heads and their teams who moved to Asian or American companies and so the had to focus for a longer timeframe since 2013 to bring up again such genius humans who help them and their think tanks to step ahead. There was a big lack of founding and educating in this high technology fields where the Germans a few years before where leading in the world, but this is history and if you won’t keep in mind that others are also hungry and get good human resources you have to start the race again if you will come back to your former position.
I agree with you that the end of the age of fossil fuels is not near in the next 10 maybe 20 years, but with more capital spend in R&D and more focusing on scaling in technologies which has a positive impact on the energy disaster.
Still I don’t believe that they can held their position in the green energy sector, I guess we had to look also to some of the southern European nations like Spain and Italy.
Spain has huge terrains where its suitable to built large plants for solar as well as wind, and they are willing to handle this, they´ve done it before from 2004 to 2009 and then made their mistake to suit the investors with breaking their own law -this will not happen again-.
Italy specially the Island of Sicily is producing more energy from the renewables than they need for their island, so the export to the mainland, and there is also a lot of space where more plants can be erected (also in both fields solar and wind).
Next there must be mentioned for sure the Asian countries like 1st China and then Japan and the next big player India they all ride for more than 10 years this wave, investing incredible amounts of money in education, technology and infrastructure. Building one after one new bigger and better production facilities for solar and wind and even for batteries and electric cars.
In 2006 we negotiate solar facilities for India with an output from 20MW, today they are building solar power plants with more than 1GW with mostly own produced modules, and the Chinese Manufacturing capacity has grown so fast that the prices dump for about three years and their quality had reached a level which is not less than that from the Germans.
And in the Industry for battery cars the Chinese and Co. (including India) are since more than 5 years the leading manufactures but nobody from the industry nations had taken notice from for long time. And if there will not be some guys like Mr. TESLA Elon Musk then these guys will dominate this sector also. They have the biggest fleet of Battery cars and bikes worldwide, they deliver complete power stations, complete wind- and solar- parks, huge battery systems and also fuel cells.
As you know, and you see from my comments there is a hard way in front of all of us and if all work continuously on this we will solve this issue for sure in the next 2 decades.
And if not we all than maybe the Asians alone will run this and get the benefits from, we will see. Oh yes the americans also are on a good way, what about the russians i only know about som solar activities at the border of the black sea.
wiht sunny greetings from Andalusia
Don Thomas