Nuclear News Thread

[ptif219]

were you also one of the idiots who blocked ethanol because we would have starved?.....

Fow many years I refused to use ethanol because it is not good for your engine

[T. A. Gardner]

we both know this argument started about wind farms........I guess now that I have shown you how stupid you are you want to change that to solar....

only an idiot would put a solar panel on farm land.........the only ones I've ever seen were out in the arid, untillable desert or around factories.......you waste your time with your rants....

Actually, the people who construct large commercial solar arrays LOVE to use farmland. The reason might not be obvious, but it is the reason that is true. Farmland doesn't have endangered species on it. Farmland is already graded flat. Farmland already has roads and other infrastructure embedded within it. This means for the solar array construction company that they don't have to do all the shit that raw land entails.

[PostmodernProphet]

Fow many years I refused to use ethanol because it is not good for your engine

actually, it's only "bad" for any plastic parts in the fuel injection system......fixing that is called Flex Fuel......its fairly common now.....

[PostmodernProphet]

Actually, the people who construct large commercial solar arrays LOVE to use farmland. The reason might not be obvious, but it is the reason that is true. Farmland doesn't have endangered species on it. Farmland is already graded flat. Farmland already has roads and other infrastructure embedded within it. This means for the solar array construction company that they don't have to do all the shit that raw land entails.

on the other hand, there's plenty of land that's flat, arid and cheap for those very reasons........nobody wants to farm it.......

[PostmodernProphet]

Actually, the people who construct large commercial solar arrays LOVE to use farmland.

contradictory to what they actually say....

from SunShare's website soliciting land owners who want to lease their land for a solar farm......

Of course, land can only be a good match for a solar farm developer if leasing is the right fit for the landowner. There are many benefits to leasing land for solar development, with the most obvious being the financial gains.

We’ve stated how solar can be a valuable option for unproductive land that cannot be farmed, but solar can also often be a more profitable option for farmers who grow dry land crops, have low or unreliable crop yields, or do not have water rights. And if you are a farmer who is interested in leasing your land for solar, but want to continue farming, Sunshare is a perfect partner. Sunshare has experience in developing farmers’ unused pivot corners, and in developing agro voltaic projects (in which farmers can actually grow crops under the solar panels)!

Industrial or commercial properties can also be leased to a solar farm developer if the land meets the necessary criteria. In fact, solar is an excellent use for land where oil and gas infrastructure is housed, as this land is frequently unable to be used for agriculture or residential or commercial development.

https://mysunshare.com/blog/land-req...or-solar-farm/

[Matt Dillon]

Fow many years I refused to use ethanol because it is not good for your engine

Grawr! I want 94 octane leaded gas! Gasoline, motherfucka! GRAWR!

[NiftyNiblick]

When I was a boy, I honestly thought that by now,
if we hadn't blown ourselves off the face of the earth with nuclear weapons yet,
each home would have its own little nuclear reactor the way it has a furnace now.

That was childish optimism, a trait from which I unburdened myself at a very young age.
Adequate intelligence results in that.

Based on how the world and our species have evolved together since,
expecting the nuclear holocaust was childish optimism as well.

[Into the Night]

Renewables will not be able to supply our needs without causing a food shortage

Since oil and natural gas are both renewable fuels, they already do.

[Into the Night]

Fow many years I refused to use ethanol because it is not good for your engine

It still isn't. Ethanol is hygroscopic. The water it retains can cause rusting of parts in the fuel system. Special gaskets material must be used to handle it. There are basically only two reasons for using it as a burn moderator:
1. It's heavily subsidized. So much so that it has basically destroyed the sugar cane industry in the States. A side effect, of course is all that corn syrup being used as a sweetener these days.
2. Catalytic converters (effectively a pollution to pollution converter) are mandated on cars, along with their attendant costs in rare earth metals to construct them (why people steal them...they are VALUABLE!). These devices don't do anything useful, and are poisoned by TEL (tetraethyl lead).

TEL has advantages:
1. It also acts as a lubricant.
2. It also acts as a coolant.
3. It WAS cheap until it was outlawed.
4. It is a superior burn moderator, much more effective per ounce.
5. Fuel separation issues don't occur with TEL. They do with ethanol.

Burn moderators are necessary in gasoline used in cars because cars compress the air in their cylinders to aid combustion. Their purpose is to keep the gasoline from burning too quickly, resulting in a 'push' rather than an explosion (a ping) in the engine. Pings are damaging to the engine and don't produce much power.

Older cars were particularly subject to ethanol corrosion. The stuff isn't compatible with the gaskets used in older cars and fuel leaks would also develop.

Your reason for not wanting to use ethanol has backing, particularly for older cars.

Ethanol is not allowed in engines for small aircraft. It causes the engine to fail in flight, usually due to fuel separation (the moderator comes out of solution). This can happen more easily at high altitude or low barometric pressure (such as a storm).

[T. A. Gardner]

on the other hand, there's plenty of land that's flat, arid and cheap for those very reasons........nobody wants to farm it.......

Until you look at an actual plant developed on that sort of land like Ivanpah in California. There, they had to do a massive environmental impact study that took years, then had to buy additional land and move hundreds of desert tortoises, an endangered species, etc., etc., etc. Farmland is easier to work with. In Arizona, farmland along the Gila River between Casa Grande and Yuma has become prime real estate for solar for those reasons.

[PostmodernProphet]

Until you look at an actual plant developed on that sort of land like Ivanpah in California. There, they had to do a massive environmental impact study that took years, then had to buy additional land and move hundreds of desert tortoises, an endangered species, etc., etc., etc. Farmland is easier to work with. In Arizona, farmland along the Gila River between Casa Grande and Yuma has become prime real estate for solar for those reasons.

so demmycrats are an obstacle to a healthy environment.......go figure......

[T. A. Gardner]

so demmycrats are an obstacle to a healthy environment.......go figure......

Well, China, the Soviet Union, N. Korea, etc., were / are some of the world's worst polluters and least environmentally conscious places.

[ptif219]

actually, it's only "bad" for any plastic parts in the fuel injection system......fixing that is called Flex Fuel......its fairly common now.....

Don't run in your air cooled engines. I ran ethanol free premium in my Harley

[ptif219]

Grawr! I want 94 octane leaded gas! Gasoline, motherfucka! GRAWR!

Just buy aircraft fuel

[ptif219]

Since oil and natural gas are both renewable fuels, they already do.

Democrats call them fossil fuels