Sunday
Our energy inefficiency - 67% loss
It's gone before you even knew it was there: As energy is unlocked from fuels at power plants, two-thirds of energy consumed to create electricity is lost.
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“Up and out, or down and out”
Joined: Apr 5, 2008
Comments: 401
ISP Location:
Little Rock, MS
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The laws of thermodynamics require heat losses. Hopefully, there will be increasing efficiency now that fossil fuel costs are so high. Coal to gas is one option to increase the efficiency at the power generation level, but the overall efficiency will decrease because of the additional step of converting coal to gas.
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“Homosapian ”
Joined: Jan 3, 2007
Comments: 1590
Minneapolis
ISP Location:
Minneapolis, MN
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Judged: 1 Go wind and solar! |
Here in NY I am awaiting a steady increase in my Gas Bill because instead of using clean burning coal in a new plant to be built here, the state has only given it's permission to build if it only burns natural gas. So the supply will be the same but now the demand will be greater and electric costs will not go down either.
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Judged: 1 Nothing to do with the toic, but, hey man what the hell are you??Part yeti/part yak or what?? |
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is ending
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Joined: Feb 29, 2008
Comments: 159
ISP Location:
Oklahoma City, OK
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Judged: 1 Just now noticed that did ya? |
Joined: Jan 13, 2008
Comments: 152
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Q: "clean burning coal" is that what they also call "brown coal" ? Have heard that it is very clean , almost no emmisions , and the waste gets buried. |
“sweat equity”
Joined: May 7, 2007
Comments: 849
Anywhere I hang my hat.
ISP Location:
Berlin, Germany
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Judged: 1 Umm. No. Brown coal is much harder to “burn clean”. You weren’t educated in Sweden were you? |
Joined: Jan 13, 2008
Comments: 152
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Judged: 1 As i dont know the name for it in english i asked,,,and i didnt ask you. Your just the thread asshole.Go F*** yourself. LOL |
Joined: Jan 13, 2008
Comments: 152
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Sorry for the post above... maybe i missunderstood you. I am trying to stop smoking and tend to explode a cup. of times a day.
SORRY. |
Joined: Jan 13, 2008
Comments: 152
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LOL hiding in shame
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“CrystelZENmud”
Joined: Jan 1, 2007
Comments: 3564
TomorrowLand village
ISP Location:
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Judged: 2 1 but go ahead, I'm not one to stand in between two flamin keyboards... I (Topically) think that it's sad that, when 50% or more of the known oil-gas reserves are tapped out, we've waited 'desperate times' to increase the efficiencies... A European concept (or Swiss?) is called 'Minergie': MINING-ENERGY from existing sources... IOW: A house that is perfectly insulated, can get almost forty percent of needed heat from ordinary light bulbs... etc... pre-heating outside air, by passing it in a tube 'WITHIN' the exiting exhausted air-transfer (so the heat passes back into the incoming cold air...), etc... A lot of little things, can do a lot of the recuperative needs we now need to implement... ZENgood |
“Up and out, or down and out”
Joined: Apr 5, 2008
Comments: 401
ISP Location:
Madden, MS
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Part Yeti. I grow my hair for two years and cut it, then donate it to a company that makes wigs for kids with cancer. |
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I love it!!! Thanks for helping the cause hetrevillion...in more ways than you know. |
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“CrystelZENmud”
Joined: Jan 1, 2007
Comments: 3564
TomorrowLand village
ISP Location:
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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too bad we don't have 'global cooling', then we could all use ice-sails to get to work...
:-)zen |
Judged: 1 maybe when fuel cost begin to get impossibly high, things might actually improve. ten dollars per gallon now! |
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Don't get ahead of yourself in assuming things. Tax breaks to oil companies have been used since Carter, and still are, in order to develop alternative energies. You're still having oil companies pay for the research. Too bad the liberals like Ted Kennedy are against building more wind turbines. Bush's Texas has more wind generated energy than any other 3 states combined at this point. Things aren't always what they seem, hmm? |
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“LOTF '63”
Joined: Jul 16, 2007
Comments: 5671
West Jacksonville, Florida
ISP Location:
AOL
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I'm surprised that the tards at our local/greedy/pathetic power company haven't added a new fee to our bill for this lost energy. That's exactly something they'd do.
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Don't like 'em, don't use 'em. Make your own. I hate folks that only moan and do nothin' |
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