Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

[blackpowder]

Universality requires affordability.
We'll see what technology brings.

[shtferbrains]

When people think it suits their requirements as is their best option they will adopt it.
Everyone has some battery power tools .
3/4 inch impact is a great example of universal adoption.

But we can't destroy economies and send all the economic advantages to China who continues to focus on cheap dispatchable power to produce all the things we are unable to complete with them on.
Germany is the example of ideology gone very wrong and crippling a once great industrial titan.
It was never costed out.
Just political ideology.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

At end of a day of harvest recently as I was finding places to charge everything, I was reflecting on how many cordless rechargeable tools we now use in a typical harvest day:

4 two way radios
multiple headlights
flashlights
Leafblower ( need more)
cordless greasegun ( should have multiple guns)
Cell phones
Cordless grinder, drills, drivers most days
Cordless impacts every day
Cordless Sawzall now that tough canola season has started. Far superior to using a gas chainsaw inside a plugged combine, speaking from experience.

A few short years ago we had none of the above conveniences here.

Communication by flashing lights and hand signals which no one understood universally.
A lot of time spent walking to reach the nearest landline or home.
Dragging everything back to a power source to repair.
buckets of dead batteries for flashlights.
Literally using chainsaw to unplug combines.
And horror of horror, pumping a grease gun by hand. My boys insisted on this upgrade after tensioning tracks on equipment one time too many by hand.

I can foresee rechargeable run around the farm vehicle's/atv's in the near future.

[sumdumguy]

Chuck is so delusional. He is like my magpies, he cleans up all the crappy propaganda and spews it out on Agriville as gospel.

[chuckChuck]

Wow Absurd 5 just figured out we are well into electrification of everything!

And almost everything he listed is a big improvement over the old technology.

But renewables and modern high capacity batteries don't work?

[Hamloc]

Wow Absurd 5 just figured out we are well into electrification of everything!

And almost everything he listed is a big improvement over the old technology.

But renewables and modern high capacity batteries don't work?

First thought on rechargeable electric tools. Definitely work well but Chuck2 if I am changing sprayer tires with my 3/4 Milwaukee impact I have 3 fully charged batteries before I start which are switched out throughout the tire change. An EV only has one..

As for solar and wind generation. In the past you have suggested that so called smart grids could utilize power from EV’s at night to keep the lights on by withdrawing power from plugged in EV’s. So in the green worshippers utopia the EV would be charged at work during the day by solar power. You would bring your EV home and plug it in to the grid where the stored energy would keep everyone’s lights on. But there is a problem, how does the EV owner drive to work the next day with a dead battery? Every battery regardless of design has so many charges in its life cycle. Who pays the EV owner for shortening the lifespan of the battery by withdrawing power from it on most nights? Conversely in the real world most EV charging is done at night, in Alberta that would be done with natural gas powered generation. Do I think intermittent renewables are a viable baseload alternative, No!!!

[shtferbrains]

Wow Absurd 5 just figured out we are well into electrification of everything!

And almost everything he listed is a big improvement over the old technology.

But renewables and modern high capacity batteries don't work?

So you didn't get the point at all?
Or your just here to troll?

Elon Musk does just fine designing and producing Ev's.
He a top selling model in China competing against their best.
He doesn't want a bunch of government intervention screwing up the marketplace.

The big 3 automakers loose huge money and can't sell what they produce matter how much taxpayer money they get for incentives.

Let the market work.
What good will be adopted and what isn't will disappear.

Governments create boondoggles that waste our money and reduce our competitive ability.
They don't pick winners, they pick their friends.

[chuckChuck]

Tesla and Musk receives all kinds of government support and incentives in the US!

And so does the oil industry!

Try to get it straight!

[shtferbrains]

Doesn't most of Musk's subsidies come in the form of some weird government program where the big 3 automakers buy credits from Tesla because they don't produce enough mandated EV's and Tesla can sell them because they are 100%.

How does that work Chuck?
Your the expert on reducing C02?
Did Musk ask for that or was that just a government plan to save the world?

[blackpowder]

Tesla and Musk receives all kinds of government support and incentives in the US!

And so does the oil industry!

Try to get it straight!

And so do the renewables, and political buddies, and, and, and.