The issue is that the Atlantic currents may be shutting down. If that happens, Western Europe will become drastically colder.
The article doesn’t make this point very coherently.
Not such a good post for HN. Two years old, flamebait title, a thin shell on top of better, more comprehensive coverage, and muddy prose that leaves the reader more befuddled than educated. It also appears to be FUD about something that never actually happened as far as I can tell.
Yet it got 30 votes in the first hour.
Soon Europe will need to expend more energy to heat during winters. Currently this is done with coal & Russian Gas (& French nukes)
Dacian has a better way that is actually cheaper than burning gas. Solar power used to directly heat a big thermal mass.
He moves generated electricity into big resistors within the concrete block & there is a controller that turn on / off those resistors. Concrete heats up by day & radiates heat at night.
Another cheap way is to heat a barrel of water using the resistance of wires running into that barrel.
http://electrodacus.com/ He also offers some great, cheap solar <-> lithium battery controllers.
Sweet, huh?
This is 2 years old and is based on 6 months of data. Any updates?
@dang could you please add (2015) to the title? The title is misleading as-is (and thus flagged) since it makes it seem like breaking news.
2-year old, shallow and short article. Disappointing
this is very very old news of 2015
Citation points to this more detailed article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...