budsfarm posted:They also import US coal as its cleaner burning. - Dire
All you ever hear is of US coal mines which have been closed, where are the mines still operating and producing enough to export?
Is the coal we produce clean enough for picky Germany but too dirty for us?
OldSalt, its "gonna take a bigger boat" = a large land footprint to generate the kind of solar energy to compete with a nuke. The kind of land you only find around here in rural farms
Pick all the sites you want or phrase the question a different way @
https://www.google.com/webhp?h...mp;spf=1499749794619
Sure to make us farmers happy. Some of us will advantage of the payouts instead of crop rotation. Some have already done so selling out to surface oil. Others will raise the prices of the increased demand on their limited produce which you will pay for. Both have to be factored into the overall cost of solar production, yes?
Hoop, is hydroelectric dead?
Hydro electric? As far as TVA is concerned, yes. There is no more capacity to be made on the Tenn. River. Maybe efficiency improvements on the generators/turbines to get a few more watts, but they don't plan to build anymore dams as it would not result in any gains. Not sure of the average capacity factor for hydro in this area as that is not my area of expertise and I'm not privy to that info.