▲ 413 ▼ Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity (oilprice.com) submitted 2 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/energy@slrpnk.net 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (3 children) Have you tried boiling water? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children) Jokes aside: Instead of boiling that water to run a turbine perhaps we could use a Thermal Electric Generator to extract energy without said turbine and everything that comes with it. Dont know how well this would scale or what it's hard use limits would be. But I hear a common solution to "too much solar" is to run the excess energy into heating a pool. A Thermo Electric Generator could allow people to recapture that energy in their pool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Heat pumps work like this. They pump heat into the ground during hot months, then take some of it back during cold months. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Hear pumps do this, but they pump energy into the ground during hot months to cool the house, then during cold months they pull some of it back. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children) Jokes aside: Instead of boiling that water to run a turbine perhaps we could use a Thermal Electric Generator to extract energy without said turbine and everything that comes with it. Dont know how well this would scale or what it's hard use limits would be. But I hear a common solution to "too much solar" is to run the excess energy into heating a pool. A Thermo Electric Generator could allow people to recapture that energy in their pool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Heat pumps work like this. They pump heat into the ground during hot months, then take some of it back during cold months. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Hear pumps do this, but they pump energy into the ground during hot months to cool the house, then during cold months they pull some of it back. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Heat pumps work like this. They pump heat into the ground during hot months, then take some of it back during cold months. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumpenmole@slrpnk.net 1 point 2 months ago Hear pumps do this, but they pump energy into the ground during hot months to cool the house, then during cold months they pull some of it back. permalink fedilink source parent