Do the economics of nuclear make sense though? A quick search showed around $5k/kW capacity. That’s $5 billion per GW. Then there’s permit and build times on top of that.

Surely renewables + distributed storage is going to become key?

Is there already extensive precedence of undersea, long distance power distribution? I could imagine the losses would be outrageous at that distance.

I’m sorry, are we really going to pretend long haul flights will become hydrogen in the near future? Has any airport begun building, or even thinking of, refueling infrastructure?

But that is not “using hydrocarbons as a battery” as your comment mentioned.

Which circumstances?

Using electricity to create fuels purely for storage is a dead concept AFAIK. eFuels in the medium term will likely only be used where batteries cannot in their current form, e.g. aircraft or shipping. The energy and money cost needed to synthesise on-site with current tech is too high.

I’d argue you can almost always do more to change the environment you are familiar with, rather than moving to a new one.

You may quickly find people, politics and politicians are equally as closed minded, independent of which country you are in.

I’m sure we’ll find something else to purchase bombs for :)

I understand this to mean: “there are no suppliers for some parts outside of China” rather than “my margins are affected, waaawaa”

Like try and buy clay that hasn’t been processed at some point through China, or any piece of machinery that doesn’t have a component inside which originates in China. Hell, even try go 24 hours without using a Chinese product.

This is why many countries are looking at re-implimenting protectionism, because we have reached a situation of non-control, regardless of domestic wants.

I don’t think I agree with their (Siemens Energy’s) stance, without a Long term solution to change the issue, but I understand it’s place in the grand scheme.

How did you get that from the article?

Agreed. I’d love to also see how this was calculated, but the graph doesn’t make me want to click on the link tbh.

My (and hopefully most other’s too) hatred for SUV’s is already maxxed out anyway.

*Edit: ok, my curiosity won and I clicked it and saw that it was done by IEA… Literally one of my favourite organisations that don’t tend to come up with junk data or conclusions. It’s a good read.

Austria is very reliant on Hydro power, which normally peaks as snow melts during spring (i.e. April). It will be interesting as climate change shifts the timing and flow of water in the country, but positive to see a growing hydro and wind build-out too.