He lost in court so now he’s playing dirty by refusing to give permits. So your electric bill will be increased by 13 to 18% .
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“”California’s growing battery storage network has reached a major milestone after delivering more than 12,000 megawatts of electricity to the state’s grid, an amount roughly equal to the output of 12 large nuclear power plants.
The record was quietly set in late March as battery systems supplied more than 40 percent of California’s electricity demand at one point during the day. The achievement highlights how large-scale battery storage is increasingly becoming a central part of the state’s energy infrastructure rather than simply acting as backup support, according to a report by Inside Climate News.
California has spent years rapidly expanding grid-connected battery systems, particularly to help solve one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges. Solar power generation typically drops in the evening just as electricity demand rises when people return home, use appliances, and charge electric vehicles. Traditionally, natural gas plants filled that gap.””
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“”The expansion of solar energy has always carried one tension with agricultural nations that no policy document resolved cleanly: solar farms require land and farmland is finite. Germany found a way to make that tension irrelevant by installing solar panels above active crop fields in an approach called agrivoltaics where the same land produces food at ground level and clean electricity from panels elevated above the growing area simultaneously. The panels do not replace the farm. They sit above it and the crops underneath benefit from partial shade that reduces water evaporation, lowers heat stress during peak summer temperatures, and in several crop varieties has been shown to improve yield compared to fully exposed conventional growing conditions.
The dual harvest model does something that neither solar development nor agricultural policy had previously achieved which is remove the competition between food production and energy generation for the same geographic footprint entirely. A field running agrivoltaic panels contributes to national renewable energy targets without removing a single hectare from food production and generates electricity revenue for the farmer above and beyond what the crop alone would produce. Germany has been piloting and scaling this approach with results consistent enough that other European agricultural nations are now moving from observation to implementation. The land does not have to choose between feeding people and powering them anymore. In Germany it is doing both at the same time.””
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“Engineering With Rosie” Barnes explains why EV batteries usually last longer than the car. Determining SOH = state of health. Testing for SOH. Thermal issues. Buying used EVs.
The EV batteries are guaranteed for 8 years so the risk is lowered when buying a used EV.
She mentioned that there are outliers. Occasionally a used EV may have been fast charged all its life causing its range to be shortened a lot. She said that battery replacement might cost 8000 Euros for a Tesla up to 34 thousand for a Mercedes, making replacement economically not possible, forcing the owner to sell the EV and buy a replacement.
This Grist article makes some very good points. Important! “Insulate, insulate, insulate.” “Double pane windows.” “Do not burn fossil fuels in your home. Install heat pump HVAC.”
However it says, “… Heat pumps join electric vehicles and induction stoves in increasing demand on the grid.” I don’t agree. The heat pumps should reduce the amount of electricity that homes use. And the addition of rooftop solar plus battery storage to charge EVs and power inductive stovetops should reduce the demand on the grid.
https://grist.org/buildings/american-homes-need-heat-pumps-not-space-heaters/
Skip down to paragraph 9 – about health care.
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“”An Oxford University study found that shifting the global energy system to a near zero-carbon model by 2050 could save the world more than 12 trillion dollars compared to continuing with fossil fuels. The research shows that clean technologies like solar, wind, batteries and electric vehicles are becoming cheaper much faster than expected, making the transition not just environmentally necessary but economically smarter.””
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1895505584492177/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
It’s a sad day for minority voters.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2183393312587740/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Chinese researchers converting coal directly into electricity by an electrochemical process. Needs many more years for development.
The problem is it’s still a finite resource being used up. And there is still the waste left over. Solar and wind are infinite and free.
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