/sci/ - Science & Math

If renewables, then solar thermal with molten salt energy storage, not shitty wind.

>>4779605

All of that is wrong, you're retarded, here's a picture of what you claim doesn't exist.

>>4391692
> When talking about roll-out, however, we can't roll something out that won't work.

Heliostats are not theoretical. Many already exist and function as promised. Spain has built the largest, following the collapse of their panel farms when the subsidy was removed. Heliostats remained competitive, panels did not.

The hardline stubborn "power generation must be loud and noisy and dirty or it's not real electricity" crowd is won over more easily as this method still uses a steam turbine and can be conceptualized as functioning much like a coal fired power plant, just with a different source of heat.

>>4270289

>And how much power does that thing put out on an overcast day?

Do you know what that is at the top of the tower? It's a molten salt boiler. The most efficient means of storing heat, and enough to keep the water boiling through the night and well into an overcast day. It's the only form of solar with such capability that does not require millions worth of batteries, and it uses $1 mirrors instead of $1,000 solar panels.

People on here like to joke about the irrationality of people not wanting "nuclear volts" in their home electrical network. But you're the same way about "solar volts", and ask questions betraying a lack of even basic knowledge of this system's strengths. It isn't dangerous, masculine and grandiose, so it doesn't "feel" powerful to you. But it's real electricity. It fucking works. You'll get your nuclear, it isn't either or, but you gotta compromise with those of us who want some renewable capacity as well.