Renewable clean energy update

RaceBannon

https://seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-state-to-regulate-federal-dams-on-columbia-snake-to-cool-hot-water-check-pollution/


I was right. Dams going bye bye


Better buy some extra blankets up there

sarktastic

Avista energy should have taken that Ontario Govt bullet head shot while they had the chance.

Good news for Idaho, they can soon buy their Clean power from President Inslee

2001400ex

They have torn down 2 dams in the last 5 years.

RaceBannon

Chincremental progress is a hallmark of the left

sarktastic

Now, a decades-long battle to take down the dams is finding new energy. The dam busters are seizing on a new star witness: mother orca whale Tahlequah. She swam with her dead calf through the Salish Sea for weeks in July, in a searing vision of loss watched around the world

Swaye

RaceBannon said:

https://seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-state-to-regulate-federal-dams-on-columbia-snake-to-cool-hot-water-check-pollution/


I was right. Dams going bye bye


Better buy some extra blankets up there

Warned.

dflea

The dams that count aren't going anywhere. And the ones that don't should have already been torn down.

RaceBannon

I think the Columbia dams count. My cheap dad used two or three summer vacations to pile us in the wagon and go visit every damn one of them

dflea

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

RaceBannon

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

2001400ex

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

Nuclear is where we need to go. The technology is getting better to prevent the issues. The biproduct is still shitty and needs to be dealt with. There will come a time where we will start building nuclear plants again. The key is diversification and overall cleaner energy.

Tidal is another thing we need to develop. I'm sure we can find ways to do it without killing a shit ton of fish.

RaceBannon

2001400ex said:

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

Nuclear is where we need to go. The technology is getting better to prevent the issues. The biproduct is still shitty and needs to be dealt with. There will come a time where we will start building nuclear plants again. The key is diversification and overall cleaner energy.

Tidal is another thing we need to develop. I'm sure we can find ways to do it without killing a shit ton of fish.

A rare chin for tidal

I like to sit at the beach and think about all the power at our finger tips

2001400ex

RaceBannon said:

2001400ex said:

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

Nuclear is where we need to go. The technology is getting better to prevent the issues. The biproduct is still shitty and needs to be dealt with. There will come a time where we will start building nuclear plants again. The key is diversification and overall cleaner energy.

Tidal is another thing we need to develop. I'm sure we can find ways to do it without killing a shit ton of fish.

A rare chin for tidal

I like to sit at the beach and think about all the power at our finger tips

That's not what I think about at the beach. But there's a power source there to be tapped.

RaceBannon

back to basics

Sledog

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

And they are silent about all the endangered species and birds of all kinds are killed by these things.

sarktastic

Known as Wappers for the sound they make when a flock of birds tries to fly through.

greenblood

Flood zone remapping isn't going to suck at all. It's going to be awesome getting a letter from your lender requiring you to carry flood insurance. That won't put a dent in the budget...

Blu82

2001400ex said:

RaceBannon said:

2001400ex said:

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

Nuclear is where we need to go. The technology is getting better to prevent the issues. The biproduct is still shitty and needs to be dealt with. There will come a time where we will start building nuclear plants again. The key is diversification and overall cleaner energy.

Tidal is another thing we need to develop. I'm sure we can find ways to do it without killing a shit ton of fish.

A rare chin for tidal

I like to sit at the beach and think about all the power at our finger tips

That's not what I think about at the beach. But there's a power source there to be tapped.

Please keep your pedophilia urges to yourself.

UW_Doog_Bot

RaceBannon said:

dflea said:

That they do.

The lower Snake dams don't and need to go.

I'm a nuclear power guy.

You're also reasonable

Green folks hate nukes, dams, oil and anything else that works

They love this though

Nope, kills birds.

UW_Doog_Bot

• Micro fission and micro fusion are coming and will probably be the baseload of the future.
  
• Solar has made huge strides but is always going to have huge swings, seasonality, and geography issues.
  
• Anything with the ocean is a yyuuuuuuggeee bitch for a million different reasons but primarily bc of the complexity of construction/maintenance and accelerated corrosion. Buoys generating power from vertical movement will be interesting from an automation standpoint similar to how solar has revolutionized geographically isolated applications but I don't see much more than that happening(See next section about ROE).
  
• Wind probably isn't ever going to be super efficient, I've seen too many AHA! moments with it even in my short lifetime and career to believe it will make the leap. It also just has a low ROE from a resources standpoint and incremental change isn't going to change that fact.
  
• Oil will still be plentiful and I'd bet we've already seen what the high price point looks like(relatively). It still has a million uses even if we were to all switch to Teslas tomorrow.
  
• Natural Gas and LNG are going to be replacing A LOT of dirty heat and power around the world in the near future. A lot of coal is going to be on the way out as that happens.
  

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Your friendly HH PM in the energy sector.

Pitchfork51

Swaye said:

RaceBannon said:

https://seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-state-to-regulate-federal-dams-on-columbia-snake-to-cool-hot-water-check-pollution/


I was right. Dams going bye bye


Better buy some extra blankets up there

Warned.

I was gonna say the brits and Spanish should have finished the job but I realized I'd be the idiot somehow breaking the only rule here.

It really shouldn't be that hard.