Andreas Lindström This “realclearinvestigations” article is full of lies and hypocrisies. Quote from article:“”Hyped as technological marvels, EVs are boobytrapped with a host of inconveniences and tradeoffs. By now many people have heard about range anxiety, exploding lithium-ion batteries, and the environmental destruction caused by global mining for battery minerals.”” Last first. The amount of
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The EIA breaks this article into the 3 interconnections: Eastern, Western, and Texas. Quote: “”On July 27, 2023, peak hourly electricity demand in the continental United States reached 741,815 megawatt-hours (MWh). This peak was the second highest since we began collecting this data in 2016, just under the all-time high of 742,704 MWh recorded on
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This article is on repurposing pipelines such as natural gas for hydrogen transportation. There are so many ignorant badmouthers that say the sky is going to fall if the natural gas pipelines are used for hydrogen. The standards worldwide show that hydrogen pipelines are nothing new. Hydrogen has been made and transported for almost a
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This CHARGE act legislation is to build a renewable energy ‘superhighway’. According to this, the existing electric infrastructure is old and antiquated and needs to be upgraded. It seems that if the existing system is working adequately then it’s not that bad. The renewables could be connected to the existing generators at their locations and
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They say this is big news. We *need* to have many interconnections between the Eastern and Western power grids. And Texas, too if they had common sense. Several DC interties need to be built so the west can send electricity to the east during daytime. https://electrek.co/2022/01/13/the-big-upgrade-to-the-us-power-grid-is-kicking-off/
NREL study said boosting transmission between the eastern and western grids would save money. The dirty, rotten, evil Trump administration held up the NREL report because they thought it would harm the coal industry. They tried to kill the Earth with coal! https://www.utilitydive.com/news/transmission-east-west-seams-grids-lowers-costs-nrel-wind-solar/608475/.
