Sub's Alternative Energy Thread

[SubGod22]

Leviathan Engineering Project Turns Two Swiss Reservoirs into World's Largest 'Water Battery' to Power Southern Europe

Next week a revolutionary new form of energy storage will debut in Switzerland after 14 years of engineering and installation.

With a storage capacity of 20 million kilowatt hours, enough to store the energy from wind, solar, nuclear or hydro and channel it to nearly 1 million homes, the Nant de Drance hydro-electric plant is ready to change the energy picture for Southern Europe.

The logistics of the Nant de Drance 900 megawatt “water battery” will blow one’s mind to read about, and involves the carving of 14 miles of tunnels under the Swiss alps in order to assemble massive prefabricated turbines and pumps around a pair of water reservoirs 1,800 feet underground.

Located under the Emosson and Vieux Emosson in the Swiss Canton of Valais, it’s Europe’s largest water battery, consists of six 150-megawatt Francis turbine-generators, and cost nearly $2 billion to complete.

But how does a water battery work, and what exactly is it? Electricity can be generated through heat, but also through kinetic energy. In considering the latter, rewenable energy storage devices take advantage of the fact that electricity can be “stored” by using its excess to move an object—in this case water.

Water from one large pool is pumped into another large pool in an underground chamber above. In this way electricity is “stored” in the sense that when power is needed in the homes of Switzerland, the water is then pumped through hydroelectric turbines to the chamber below with nothing other than the force of gravity.

The electricity generated from the kinetic energy of the falling water into the turbines is like the discharging of a battery—400,000 car batteries in the case of Nant de Drance.

Sounds like another fascinating project, though quite expensive. The article also mentions another similar project in Scotland.

[Kung Wu]

Another way to eliminate waste and repurpose it to something beneficial.

Oh crap, my son and I gotta build that. Just joined their discord. Thanks!

[SubGod22]

Machine Recycles Plastic Bottles into 3D Printer Filament-And the Design was Released, Instead of Patented

The mission of the James Dyson Award is simple: Design something that solves a problem.

No one will be surprised, then, that the Polyformer machine won a grand prize because it expertly solves two problems at once.

The young co-inventors, Reiten Cheng and Swaleh Owais, designed the Polyformer to achieve two goals: to tackle plastic waste, and figure out how to turn it into low-cost filament for 3D printing, which would be a boon for developing countries.

3D printer filament can be a costly purchase for many creators and hobbyists, but this is particularly true for those who live in developing countries—where plastic waste is plentiful.

Owais, who studied at McMaster University in Canada, said the cost of importing a standard roll of 3D printer filament into Rwanda was retailing for over $60, whereas the same 1kg / 2.2-lb roll can be purchased in Canada for a fraction of that price.

The Polyformer machine can convert a standard 500ml plastic bottle (1/2 quart size) into 3/4 ounce of print filament (20 grams).

Another fantastic part of this story is the fact that Polyformer’s design itself is an open-source project. Instead of applying for a patent, Cheng and Owais released all the CAD, code, and building instructions, offering it to the public on the team’s discord website, so anyone can put it together.

Another way to eliminate waste and repurpose it to something beneficial.

[wufan]

For those that are interested, here’s a 12 min vid that better explains the temperature adjustments made by NOAA, including the legitimate reasons for which this might be done.

https://youtu.be/bWBZhd5Yc2g

[Shockm]

Why green energy is not green at all

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...en_at_all.html

All green energy degrades its environment.

Green energy is very diluted — thus, large areas of land are needed to collect wind and solar energy.

Manufacture, erection, and final disposal of green energy generators uses more energy than they can produce over their short lives.

Greens also worship biomass energy like wood. (Even a caveman can do it)

Greens also promote world hunger by promoting ethanol made from plant foods to replace better motor fuels such as petrol and diesel. The hillbillies of Tennessee were specialists in distilling corn whiskey, which had many uses for recreation and medicine. Others found that ethanol could be produced from most plant material, especially grains, beets, and sugarcane. So Greens pollute good whiskey with a touch of gasoline to make it unfit for human consumption and then subsidize it and mandate its use in motor vehicles. While some people starve, food is used for motor fuel.

U.S. government biofuel mandates have also made the refining of diesel and other fuels more expensive.

Green energy needs batteries to keep the lights on when wind and solar fail (as they do every day). To charge those batteries while also serving consumers requires a very large increase in generator capacity. This increases the need for more spider webs of landscape-destroying power lines and roads between wind towers, solar farms, "Big Batteries," pumped hydro, and electricity-consumers.

Big Miners love Green Energy and electric cars because that consumes heaps of metals like copper, nickel, lithium, rare earths, cobalt, silicon, aluminum, molybdenum, silver, and steel as well as limestone and gas for producing cement. But every lithium battery in every electric car or bicycle is a spontaneous fire hazard — park them far away from anything flammable.

Finally, we have maybe the biggest green scam of all: Carbon Capture and Burial. Big coal and gas companies love this trick — it will consume far more coal or gas to produce the same usable energy, and the rest is wasted in gas capture, compression, pumping, piping, and disposal. And the whole silly scheme relies on the assumption that the buried gas will stay where it was put.

And what about the COP27 climate jamboree? Four hundred private jets attended. Even Saint Greta thinks it is a scam.

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Personally, I do think we can make progress with clean energy and renewable sources if we give real science and the resulting technoogies a chance to work. But that will take more time and patience than the climate grifters are willing to allow. So they will use force to get their way, just as they did with the disastrous covid response.

This fits in the climate warming thread too. Sam still hasn't been extradited from the Bahama's yet, but I think they are working on it.

The Bankman-Fried family (especially Gabe Bankman-Fried) is giving to these leftwing global warming causes too (global warming policies, pandemic vaccine policies, racism, etc.) so I will post this here too.

Sam B-F's family has been very left wing, and has organized donors to the far left wing of the Democrat Party for years. His father (Joseph Bankman) and mother (Barbara Fried) are Law Professor's at Stanford Law School, and his brother (Gabe Bankman-Fried) has followed suit with his family as well. They have paid to push left wing pandemic policies, climate policies, Ukraine policies, and help people like Elizabeth Warren for years. These policies would be perceived by most Americans as ultra left wing.

https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/...power-players/

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s family boasts deep ties to Democrat power players

His brother, Gabe B-F has helped raise over $27 Million to funnel to Democrat Power players.