Indeed, this is a massive recent find, thermal power stations in the SI could radically change NZs energy makeup and be a huge economic boon to southerners.
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Copper won't be required, carbon / graphene will be the new material, can be coaxed into high conduction levels through nano tube structures.
We HAVE to go electric, oxygen levels are falling through use of internal combustion engines and external combustion (jet) engines.
Not according to this but all dutch to me..
https://www.quora.com/Is-graphene-go...t-happen-first
Utter rubbish
That statement is just as accurate as saying "All humans drink water. All humans die. Therefore drinking water will kill humans"
And a jet engine is an internal combustion engine.
The steam engine is the last example of an external combustion engine I can think of. And you believe steam engines are having a catastrophic effect on the world????????
Steady on there xa; maybe posting some info would inform/correct arc rather than attacking him/her . From this article oxygen level falling is miniscule but not in our oceans where deadzones are happening due to O2 depletion.
Why Scientists Aren't Freaking Out About Falling Oxygen Levels | Inverse
But note that this is due to pollution, not to burning fossil fuels "The primary contributor to these apocalyptic scenes is fertilizer runoff from agriculture, which causes algal blooms, providing a great feast for bacteria that consume oxygen. The abundance of these bacteria cause O2 levels to plummet, and if they go low enough, organisms that need it to survive swim away or die."
Long term, what's the cost of electricity based on?
Personally, I think it's the cost of fuel.
On one side of the ledger, we have hydro, geothermal, wind, wave/tidal, and solar.
On the other side of the ledger, we have coal, oil, nuclear, biomass and gas.
The big thing that spins round and produces the electrons doesn't give two hoots what's making it spin. So why, long term, would you build a generation source which you have to keep shovelling money into to make that big spinning thing spin?