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

only after years of kicking and screaming, and companies that made CFCs switched to more expensive HFCs and later HFOs so it’s not like they went out of the business. (alternative is use of hydrocarbons which is much cheaper but flammability was used as a reason to restrict their use) CFCs are also still used as chemical intermediates and as late as during covid there was an operational illegal R12 factory somewhere in northern china

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

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

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

New ones, and not all if them, work this way, as in there’s tiny helium condensing unit. Older ones just let it go and require topping up every couple months (guessing by how often helium in NMR is topped up). Also every emergency shutdown invariably blows off all of helium inside