The Combined Power Plant - 100% from renewable energy

[happinesson]

This gonna be costly!this idea needs a lot of financial support. But definitely, it will improve our lives!

[superslothable]

That's really smart

[wshaw8686]

German engineering at its finest! Hopefully we Americans will borrow your good ideas to help fill our shortfalls.

[HorizSvcs]

This is an ingenious concept. It is sure to usher in a revolution in renewable energy generation.

[notoriouslizw]

Ethanol and oil from hemp?

[cav3man]

Hi all, I'm from Germany and the new data is in for energy production in the first half of 2010 by the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen" (Energy Balance Consortium).

19% of the total energy production was made by renewable sources, a rise of about 20% compared to the first half of 2009. Still not enough and due to the (I hope it will not be granted) new energy concept a favor for nuclear fission power the fundings for renewable sources are declining.

[ARJUN518]

i like



[usmanhaider69]

thats a great idea and great combination of wind and hydal power plants

[68spaceman]

Well done video, easy to understand and shows something positive is being done about these issues. AGW deniers would have us sit on our hands and do nothing (except burn more coal)

[MrHicks091]

Oh, & the only hoax being perpetrated is by the fossil fuel industry-which is using Denialism as a means to retain their dominance of our energy & fuel sectors-whatever the social or environmental cost!

[MrHicks091]

We also musn't forget that there are now a host of new energy storage technologies which allow excess power from wind & solar to be stored for when its needed.

[sertaco]

such as???

[MrHicks091]

@sertaco Sorry I never got back to you. Vanadium flow (REDOX) batteries allow storage of excess electrons for slow release later-a similar approach could be used for PV electricity too. For solar thermal, you have molten salt, variable pressure steam & thermal decomposition of methane, sulfur trioxide or ammonia-which can all be re-reacted later to recover the heat.

[captinseperoth]

@MrHicks091

wind and solar is bullshit energy!

stop being delirious, we are at the same point 30 years ago !

invest the billions in reliable means such as fusion,not bullshit energy!

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth Oh that's too funny for words. In the space of 30 years, the efficiency of solar cells has more than *tripled*, whilst the cost per watt has fallen from $25 to little more than $3. A wind turbine used to only generate 500Kw each, now they generate 2-3MW each. All of this has been achieved on a fraction of the money received by coal & nuclear power. Meanwhile, please point me to even *one* working fusion reactor!

[captinseperoth]

@MrHicks091

the sun, as it produces it's energy through fusion, and in one secound it produces more energy of what USA uses in a million years.

also

doesn't the sun produces your hailed energy source, of wind and solar?

another "reactors" are the ITER facility, and JET facility

we can create the fusion process,and we have been doing it for decades, but the trick is maintaining it...

there are teams working on this problem around the world right now.

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth yeah, way to be pedantic buddy. I obviously meant ones built by HUMANS. I know of the ITER & JET facilities but, as you say, they're not really *working*-they can't be maintained &-last I checked-they use up more energy than they generate. Funny, though, they've been working on nuclear *FUSION* for more than 30 years, & the program has received many hundreds of billions of dollars-for no real result. Yet you bag solar & wind? How curious.

[captinseperoth]

@MrHicks091

if solar is so great,why don't simply plaster immense entire areas, such as death valley?

if energy solar is so good,why does it take many decades for the initial investment to be payed off for those who put solar panels on their roof tops? Also is the green movement really for the environment, or deep down its the newest marketing

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth Seriously mate, where the hell do you get your info from? You can buy a good 1.5kw solar panel for under AU$2000. A solar panel of this size generates roughly 8 kw-h per day of electricity. At a retail cost of AU$0.25c per kw-h, this means you get AU$2 per day of electricity. In the space of a year that equates to around AU$700. This means that the average solar panel has paid itself off in less than 4 years. So please spare me your ill-informed BABBLE!

[cav3man]

@captinseperoth

hi captinseperoth...

that is actually what is happening. In death valley there are several solar concentrated power plants and several more are planned. The same is planned for the sahara (google: desertec) And in germany the spreading of solar panels is just crazy... the amount of panels is almost doubling every year (check the numbers, I'm not hallucinating)... and this is just because we can't build enough to meet the demand.

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth btw, just so you don't misunderstand me, I *do* want them to keep funding research into fusion power-& I *do* hope it succeeds one day. In the *meantime*, however, I want to see greater development of power sources which can reduce our demand for non-renewable resources RIGHT NOW! Not 50 years from now!

[captinseperoth]

@MrHicks091

we can renew atomic waste, just do what the french do

also DEMO

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth Given how ill-informed all of your other comments have been, you'll forgive me if I take this claim with another pinch of salt. Very little recycling of atomic waste goes on, because the *cost* of this approach would make nuclear power too expensive to be practical. Even now, the French nuclear power sector relies on *massive* government subsidies to remain viable. So do spare us all your anti-renewable, pro-nuclear BS, it really is getting boring.

[MrHicks091]

@captinseperoth So, according to my research, R&D into workable Fusion has been going on since the 1950's, & the EU alone has pumped more than EU$10 billion into its program (up to the year 2000), & has budgeted another EU$10 billion for the ITER alone. Yet still it is unable to generate power for the grid. You might want to rethink what you call bullshit energy, Wind & solar are both putting millions of gw-h per year into the grid, world-wide.

[sniperu2]

what ever you did , you are going to use our saudi oil :)

[vsaktharhussain]

very good

[supertetita]

chile is gonna work on it too

[kenbasse]

You still need coal fired plants to supply the windmill generator magneticing power.

[marcusmeisel]

Yup, Austria's working on it.

[bigmind2004]

genius. i like the idea,its clean. other country's should apply it.