I really don't consider hydrocarbon resources as being a particularly 'harmful way of receiving energy.'
I know many people that don't consider stealing money from "capitalists" (in fact, just more wealth people, not just Google or banks) or just from other peoples. It doesn't mean that this is good.
The same with you. You don't consider, but in fact, it is harmful. Did you ever live near themral power plant? I doubt. But i lived.
Also, this is not only thermal PP closing (in future) but electrival cars, trains and many others.
Words mean things. I'm not dogging on you for English skills; I'm sure that words mean things in Ukranian as well. Nothing in what you said above relates to my statement except an assertion that 'fossil fuels are harmful because they are harmful.'
You keep talking about 'thermal power plant' (and claim to be a power engineer.) Do you mean a coal or oil fired generating plant? If so, it is turbine or diesel-electric?
The only real problem I see is the risk of contamination from well blowouts and tanker wrecks.
And CO2 and CO and many other shitty things.
CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere which plants compete over in order to grow their tissue. Currently it is an average of about 400/1,000,000 and that ratio fluctuates over the year. The residence time seems to be less than a year meaning on average a molecule released becomes part of a plant or animal shell within a year.
In other words CO2 is, if anything, good. At least for plants. It is certainly not a threat, and it doesn't matter anyway since fossil fuel combustion by humans is a tiny fraction of the annual production anyway.
CO turns into CO2 almost instantly in the presence of O2.
The 'other shitty things' can be a problem in highly urbanized areas with poorly tuned vehicles. The problem is population consolidation but the same people who are all into hyping the 'dangers' of fossil fuel are also very much into the program of forcing populations into high density areas and de-populating the rural areas.
will make bank by bilking people via their 'green energy'
Solar stations, wind power plants, hydro power plants, tidal power stations, geothermal and biogas is really useful and cool things. With just one cons: They very depends on external factors (except hydro and geothermal) like location, weather and others. Without powerul accumulators it's hard to use them. Some of them have the same
Efficiency ratio as thermal power stations (hydro, tidal, geothermal and some solar)
For example i have my own power station, and feeling really free. 7.5 kW (peak) from solar panels and 1.5 kW (peak) from hand made wind generator.
Most of these things have some serious cost issues (initial, maintenance, rarity, etc), and most are not in the least bit free of environmental impact.
If you want to have an intelligent conversation on them, pick one.
I suspect that 'they' have nuclear fusion worked out by now. They seemed pretty close when I was a kid 40 years ago. The economic shock of what would be effectively unlimited and nearly free energy with no contaminates or safety concerns would be economically disruptive to the ruling class and ecologically disruptive since humans would (or could) go on another population binge. My guess is that this is why we don't see it, and rarely even hear of it any more.
As for your solar and wind stuff, great. I intend to dick around with alternate energy for the engineering challenge alone. But only because I've got plenty of money to burn. Been to busy with other things to date.
As i see, you're american. So i can understand your way of thinking. Many americans uses to ride on 6V car engines and other such things.
Again, how does that relate to anything we are talking about? What's the difference between a 2.4 liter 4cyl engine and a 2.4 liter v6 engine? What's the difference between a 2 liter car doing 100km/hr and a 3 liter car doing 100km/hr?
It sounds to me like you fell for a set of talking points and divide-and-conquer operations and forgot about analysis, logic, rigor, etc. Or perhaps were deprived of an education which would allow you to make use of such tools in the first place.
The nearly universal goal of education in most countries seems to be to make it so that the peeps cannot or will not think for themselves. Only echo a set of 'approved' talking points.
