some goods and intermediates have large energy content, like, if you wanted to use energy from large pv farm in, say, morocco, then it might make more sense to ship bauxite in and aluminum bars out (it takes some 50MJ/kg to make aluminum)

simplicity of the system would be a factor in small, unattended installations like for space heating for single home

if you’re interested in heating only, then geo-solar hybrid might be better for you. the point is that excess heat from solar collector gets stored in soil near borehole, which can be used for heating in winter. solar heat also gets you hot water year round, and it can be made to work with heat pump or without

all of that without heat pumps too

It is a liquid that after irradiating stores that energy while still cold and can be made to release it in form of heat on demand. but also it’s low grade heat mostly useful for heating and not for electricity generation. It would be simpler to just build long range transmission lines or put energy intensive manufacturing near PV farm in sunny region

it’s transparent too so you can just put pv panel underneath to capture the rest

you get 1.6MJ/kg just by irradiating this thing, nothing else is needed and its storable for months as noncorrosive room temperature liquid

to make ammonia you need to have pv to turn light to electricity then make hydrogen out of it then make ammonia in haber process, each step generates losses and none are practical on small scale

there is a problem that it can heat itself up so hard during decomposition that it can just go on without catalyst

aaand it boils water again

also, has hungary built out renewables during orban tenure? that would help a fair bit in any scenario

article says that hungarian dependence on russian oil went from sixty-ish% to almost 100% after 2022, and many countries started sourcing oil elsewhere, meaning they used to have other sources, but dropped them for some reason. this can be restarted

on top of druzhba, there is an oil pipeline called adria from croatian coast in omisalj that goes among other places to hungary. turkstream is for gas, but it’s not the only source for the grid, and there are lng ports on the adriatic coast, and all these pipelines also go to groningen gas field and norwegian shore and other places https://www.entsog.eu/sites/default/files/2018-10/ENTSOG_CAP_MAY2015_A0FORMAT.pdf

hungary already imports 1.3GW on average

at minimum that 40% of non-russian oil supply to hungary didn’t evaporate overnight, and there was supply from other places secured by other countries (norway will make a killing on this all)

new and terrifying american weapon

assad about to get new roommate

fr this is worse than toilet paper roll math

there are 199 seats and so 2/3 supermajority is 133 seats. tisza has 136 now at 60%ish polling stations counted

you can get it straight from the source instead from this vibecoded mess. 136 now btw https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

at 45% polling stations (?) in, Tisza has 135 seats, which is more than supermajority, and results from bigger cities where opposition has greater support still are not yet counted. if mi hazank drops under 5% threshold, their lead will be greater. lowkey expecting that orban is looking for plane tickets to moscow rn

update: at 72% stations in, Tisza has 138 seats

The one we can mine is drawn off together with natural gas, and was produced over geological timescales as product of alpha decay of uranium