Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:11PM
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Geothermal is not renewable either, but we say it is. There is so much Uranium, I would consider it "close enough"
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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by ncmncm on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:14AM
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If geothermal isn't renewable, then neither is solar. Or wind. Or hydro. Those all trace to irreversable conversion of hydrogen to helium. Geothermal comes from fission, just like nuclear.
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by pfdietz on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:22AM
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Geothermal does not come from fission. It comes from some combination of primordial heat (which is gravitational), and alpha and beta decay (not fission).
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
by ncmncm on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:30PM
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I had gathered that primordial heat would have petered out billions of years ago. That the radioactive decay cited as providing long-term heat is not primarily fission is a surprise. But isn't alpha decay really a kind of fission? It's not useful for chain reactions, but that's a whole other topic.