Speaking to the future one could also argue that there will be fusion someday and because of its energy density it will be economically much cheaper than any other form of power generation.

Helion Energy is already 95% net electric and their upcoming 7th generation reactor should be slightly net positive, if all goes well in 2024 then commercialization will proceed. They have estimated they could initially produce 20 50W reactors a year.

Exciting times

Interesting, I wonder if they have always been like that or made the switch

Arrrgh

Yeah 262PWh at 100% capacity factor

Since wind cf is about 30% That’s 78.8PWh of energy, so 2.7 times the USA energy.

No where in that article does it mention nameplate

TW is power so multiply by a time to get energy

Here’s my reference to USA energy https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/Energy_2021_United-States_0.png

Don’t know what you mean by ‘net’

The USA uses about 100 Quad of energy per year, that’s 29PWh (peta Wh)

30TW 8760 hr/year = 26.2PWh per year at 100% capacity factor

What am I getting wrong here?

Interesting

Do you have evidence of any country that has completely switched over to renewables?

I think southern Australia is pretty close.

All the papers on completely switching to renewables have been rather disappointing. Thinking of Jacobsen.

This proposal should be peer reviewed.

And if you have a pretty full tank and don’t use it, I’d expect to warm up eventually, right? There must be a pressure relief valve I’m guessing. Then the question is how long can it just sit? Gasoline has a shelf life too but you can add something like Stabile to extend it in some circumstances…

I vaguely remember reading somewhere that to store gasoline or it might have been crude oil costs about $2 a barrel… probably crude