Interruptions in the food chains are about to happen.Look at the El Nino forecasts for later this year.

We are in January 23' on the graph, that's what you are experiencing now.

Look to the right. See how much higher the global temperature is projected to be by November 23'.

That's how much warmer next Fall will be.

Dust Bowl 2.0 starts this Summer. We are in an entirely "new" climate. Global temperatures haven't been thus high in millions of years.

Food prices could double in the US by this time next year. In 24' it will get hotter.

I forecast this last year.

On Politics - 03 : We are having a Sarajevo Moment.

Depressingly, reality seems to be unfolding the way I projected.

In terms of "molten salt solar" and hydrogen power I remain skeptical. Less on the molten salt than the hydrogen.

A molten salt solar project is basically just a battery. A way of storing energy for periods when the Sun isn't shining. It's simple, straightforward, and demonstration projects have been built. So, why don't I like it?

It doesn't really scale well. It's great for "here and there" spots but trying to use it for a whole grid just isn't physically possible.

It's like that site in Portugal where they intend to use PV to pump water uphill into a dam all day. Then let it out at night for hydro-power.

That's wonderful, as long as you have a handy dam nearby. It's not going to work for everyone.

Do you see the other fly in the ointment in all of these mechanical battery schemes?

They all start with the premise that you have enough extra power during the day to allocate some into charging your battery. Realistically, this means you have to have double the generation capacity of your current usage.

Once to supply your day needs and a second time to create enough energy to "wind up" your mechanical battery for your night needs. That's a lot of extra resources for wide scale adoption.

Hydrogen has it's advocates. This debate has been going on for decades. But, it has a lot of issues.

For me it just seems primitive. It's burning a gas, to make heat, to boil water, to make steam, to turn a turbine, to make electricity. Just like we have been doing for the last 125 years.

Sure, if you were setting up an "apocalypse community" power source. Great idea. As long as your supply of PV panels to generate juice for electrolysis of water into hydrogen holds out, you have an inexhaustible supply of power.

Although, why not just use the power from the PV panels directly?

See what I mean?