Not just China is it? Nuclear projects seem to always get delayed and run over budget. Meanwhile wind and solar seem to do much better in comparison.
But that could be due to nuclear being much larger and you hear more about something going wrong. A single solar farm having delays isn’t really something to be overly concerned with.
Ahh that makes a bit more sense.
If that is the case you certainly don’t get thermoelectric generators
My thinking was steam engines are 100s of years old technology.
Only places I have seen TEGs really used in a useful sense is stove fans. They blow air around the stove to move warm air around the room.
If you want primitive, steam engine? Orders of magnitude efficient than thermoelectric generators.
Depends a lot on what you want from it. Trees, hedges, shrubs, plants?
My garden is mainly shrubs because its quite small. If I had more space I would add fruit trees.
I have wondered if when you use water would make a big difference or not. I could get a large tank and fill it up when water is more abundant then use it during drought.
But that will cost me the price and space of a big tank with absolutely no benefit for it. I can just use the tap water during the drought instead, costs the same regardless of when I use it.
As long as you can expect some periods of very cheap energy before its cold so you can warm it up again, seems like a decent idea actually.
How do they heat it, ideally would be using heat pumps.
What is the realistic output? Seem some thermoelectric camping stoves and they can barely manage to charge a phone.
Also sounds like a lot of fuel would be required which solar panels don’t need. As some kind of backup power maybe it could have a use, but no chance at being a good primary power source. And isn’t a steam turbine much more efficient than thermoelectric?
I only cook on induction, its great, my pans are both cast iron.
Yeah, been using Linux as my only OS since late 2000s
PLA looks and feels like any other plastic. Pretty sure it lasts a very long time if you were to drop it on the floor of a forest and that is an ideal location for biodegrading.
Got a cheap 3D ages ago which is why I looked it up. Don’t really use it much though, said I would buy a better one if I use it but only used it like 3 times in a few years now.
Oats, enough water to form a dough. Maybe some salt.
Tempted to try using an oat sourdough starter though.
IIRC the latent heat of fusion of water is about 333kJ/kg. So 666kJ for 2L. With ice that averages out to about 23w over a nights sleep. Heat capacity of water is 4.2kJ/kg/k, so even if its 0c as a liquid, to warm up to body temperature is under 300kJ.
TLDR: Water going from a ~0c solid to ~0c liquid takes more than twice as much energy as ~0c liquid water warning up to body temperature.
The ice also only melts to 0c, so you get that benefit as well.
People should stop doing that
At this point I’ll gladly bake oat bannocks over the burning ruins of the US economy to survive.
Bricks are also fireproof and yet we still have house fires in the UK. Even if your walls don’t burn, things like furniture, garden plants, trees, wood fences all burn.
Wouldn’t cold water get warm very quickly? I have thought of ice though. If you wrapped it up enough so that it takes up heat fairly slowly.
Watch a cure appear rapidly once it effects Europe…