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Online Ben Framed

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The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« on: January 29, 2023, 02:36:27 am »
Here Scotty Kilmer discusses, different types of electrical energy sources. What is your opinion of what is the best source of electricity?

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Re: The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2023, 04:01:37 pm »
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Re: The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2023, 04:57:35 pm »
The cleanest and best bang for the buck if you don't have to spend years fighting eco-nuts, is nuclear.  Long lasting, clean, low risk in both implementation and operation.  Storing spent fuel rods is less impactful on the landscape and the environment than discarded wind turbines and defunct solar panels. 
Hydro would be up there very close to number 1 with me, but it's not something you can build anywhere.  Nuclear does require a water source for cooling but that source can be much smaller than what is required for efficient large-scale hydro.  Again you have to fight the eco-nuts.
 They don't seem to care if the pollution is out of sight and if it requires dangerous mining often done by slave and child labor OR that it gives the advantage to those who control the materials needed, to our enemies.   
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Re: The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2023, 08:13:35 am »
Hard to beat Hyrdroelectric.  Humans have been using Hyrdo for as long as we can tell.  Water wheels have been around for centuries at least if not millennia.
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Re: The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2023, 09:14:49 am »
All have advantages and disadvantages.  Location is key for most sources of energy with the exception of geo thermal.
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Re: The Best Source of Electrical Energy?
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2023, 10:30:15 am »
>Location is key for most sources of energy with the exception of geo thermal.

You might be able to leverage geo thermal for a heat pump most anywhere, but if you live near hot springs you can get MUCH more efficiency.
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