1 - L'énergie - Cours des Mines 2019 - Jancovici - [EN subtitles available]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a source lecture series behind arguments on energy, EROEI, nuclear power and climate.
What it is
Part 1 of Jean-Marc Jancovici's 2019 course at Ecole des Mines de Paris, on energy and its central role in the economy and climate. It is in French with English subtitles available and runs about two and a half hours.
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Cites Xixi · 2020-11 · on “Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake”
The current trajectory of temperature increase is at least 4~5°C (rather optimistic) in 2100, which would mean that a pretty wide area surrounding the equator will, year-round or for significant parts of the year, have a wet-bulb temperature at or above 35°C. It is the limit at which human life (and mammal life in general) is entirely impossible, due to over-heating. That unlivable area will include most of India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, etc. Hong-Kong and Taiwan, whether you consider them as part of China or not, will anyway not be livable anymore by then. What do you think will happen when India, a country of 1.3B armed with nuclear weapons, realize it literally has to move somewhere e
Cites NaNDude · 2021-11 · on “Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution”
> this specific argument I was supporting with sources none of thoses sources is contradictory of what i explained on the history of our shortages. > Why did you chose hydro? because you talk about mix, today its fr secondary electricity production, and hydro plants are older than fr nuclear plants/projects. >That is half of what EPR needs to invest to keep your ageing fleet from falling apart... i'm not sure of what your talking about again, that's probably half or even less of what we must invest to keep our ageing (not EPR) nuclear fleet yes, which provide 75% of our production, in other words: 8% production for 50billions imported external products + exploitation cost on 20years vs 75% f
Cites polotics · 2024-10 · on “Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel”
Slides of the 20 hours lectures at Ecoles des Mines Paris [LINK] The lectures: [this video] The (already provided in a previous comment) EROEI study: [LINK] The one specific slide about the low EROEI of solar panel is in: [LINK] The 2.7 value is from 2019, as calculated for Spain, this one slide is in english. Panels have not made a x10 EROEI explosion in the past 5 years, a lot of the energy costs in that calculation are independent of panel technology improvements.