What does /sci/ think the most viable renewable resource is?

>>7914854
Solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric.

In an ideal world, nuclear even though that's probably not defined as "renewable".

humans turning giant wheels while being whipped

>>7914854
Solar
>>7914867
This, we cannot afford to exclude nuclear power

>>7914874
Hahahaha. That is not even worth the cost of making the wheel

Black hole power?

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>>7914854

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>>7914880
Fuck off Big Solar shill, whip wheels are the future

>>7914854
Solar is literally our only energy source

Without the Sun no life would exist on Earth at all

Finding more efficient ways to harness UV and other frequencies is a sure fire way to ensure our future (as long as the Sun is around, anyway)

>>7914889
#blackholesmatter

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>>7914892
>herp derp ground hydrocarbons is easier so we should just keep drilling cuz

>>7914892
> hydro>nuclear

I don't think this is even remotely close to the truth

>>7914899
But in countries that get little sun it's not very efficient

>>7914874
Instead of whips just pay them a dollar an hour.

>>7914910
whips are a small one time investment. It's more cost effective than wages

>>7914854
solar by far, fusion when it passes from the meme world to the actual one

>>7914904

The image is accurate, considering the largest hydroelectric dam and average-sized nuclear power plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station

Renewable energy is a buzzword for fuckos. The second law of thermodynamics specifically says that this is impossible.

>>7914951
why would you compare the largest hydro to a medium nuclear? why not the largest nuclear

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I would say satellite power beamed to Earth would be the best source in the long term, assuming we can get the infrastructure up there in the first place.

>>7915265
Is that safe?

>>7915269
doubtful

>>7914854
People are the most viable renewable resource. As long as we keep popping out offspring they will grow and learn to solve problems associated with scarcity of non-renewable resources.

All we need to do is attach an alternator to one single wind turbine, it will provide enough free power for all 7 million people in the world. When there's no wind the alternator provides power to spin the turbine which makes wind which spins the turbine which provides power for the alternator but the oil companies won't allow it because they're all meanies.

Nuclear energy of course. In the short term fission based reactors, in the long term fusion based reactors.

>>7914892
That's not an argument against these technologies. That's simply a statement of the fact that it will take a relatively long time, as measured in terms of a single human lifespan, for them to fully replace all existing fossil fuel based technologies. They will in the course of being built also create an enormous number of new jobs, in terms of construction and maintenance, and I imagine that we will see many of the early rollouts of these power sources in areas where getting oil and gas to them is particularly challenging.

>>7914854
wow that thing in the sky sure is bright and produces a lot of heat our of nowhere, as it has been doing it for 4.5 billion years
hey, aren't those two things both energy?
it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon.

>>7915269
Yes. Power density can be very low. You could walk into the beam and the worst that would happen is that the wifi and cell signals would suck.

Not to mention if the beam is aimed at say a city, people would be angry because the wifi and cell service could be jammed.

>>7914854
Nuclear.
The sun will die out. The earth will stop turning and cool down.
But atoms will always exist in near limitless amount.

>>7915495
Earth is going to be unable to support life 1 billion years down the line, buddy. We're not going to ever have worry about the sun running out of energy.

>>7914854
>2016
>believing liberal lies that oil will run out
>believing liberal lies that we need renewable renergy

The lord put it here for us don't be so dumb.

>>7915468
I think we would have to greatly improve battery technology to use that in earnest, but it's not a bad idea.

>>7915552
Because there's no way we'd ever find out how to fix that in 1 billion years.

>>7915202
That was the point that that anon was trying to get across.

The data in the image is accurate, but misleading.

thorium

>>7915552
>>7915566
I think most people agree that there is a certain degree of diminishing returns on the utility of looking further and further ahead.

>>7914854
>Renewable
laughingarthurcclarks.jpg

>>7914854
alcohols and methane.

related.
http://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH

>>7915468
>trusting the government to put multi megawatt microwave cannons in space and not turn them into weapons
>the US government

Solar energy used to drive alkane reverse combustion to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/02/17/1516945113.abstract

Nothing is renewable
Eventually everything will run out with the heat death of the universe

What if you make a sun made out of ice in one room and a sun made our of lava in the other and place a thermoelectric generator between them

Home 3D printed solar cells are pretty cool. Probably that and fusion power would be all we ever need.

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>>7915616
ANON YOU'RE SO SMART!!!!!

>>7915588
>>7915616
that will be solved when we figure out dank energy

>>7914915
But we'd have to pay people to whip them

>>7915659
Why pay them when you could whip them?

>>7915674
infinite whipgress

>>7915659
>>7915674
there would be plenty of volunteers

>>7915616
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER