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Anon has a power fantasy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by Gullible to c/greentext

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>fantasy setting has magic and flying creatures
>still using horses as main transportation

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>>250341473 (OP) #
>setting has nuclear energy
>still using coal as main energy source

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rubbish dump methane to electricity is cheap and effective. The Canberra mugga lane tip has had a pilot plant~~, not sure if it's still running~~ generating 37 GWh a year

Hydro on the mainland is pretty much just Snowy Hydro. There was a project from a former government to make that pumped hydro. I don't think it has yet been finished. I don't know whether the project has been cancelled

37 GWh, now that's a "random" number

Solar thermal - yes, the leading technology is a field of heliostat mirrors focusing sunlight on a tower, melting and heating salt. That system can easily hold onto the heat in their salt for use at night

CSIRO in 2014 thought it was possible. I trust they did the maths right.