Quote “”Transitioning to a decarbonised energy system by around 2050 is expected to save the world at least $12 trillion compared to continuing our current levels of fossil fuel use.“” Quote: “”Professor Farmer adds, “The world is facing a simultaneous inflation crisis, national security crisis, and climate crisis, all caused by our dependence on high
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The truth. Quote : “”Mike Tavenner Compliments to Your Chicago Friendfor this very accurate post. Do you have a problem with the landmark infrastructure bill President Biden created to benefit you? Are you angry that he cut child poverty in half? Maybe you’re upset because he put a cap on the price of prescription drugs
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This technical report from NREL dated 2003 discusses the water consumed by thermoelectric power plants. It’s a .PDF available online from the US government.
Starting this climate corps is great news. And a lot of other great news. This is a 4 min. YouTube video.
The Cult of Trump MAGAs are posting death threats against the Colorado Supreme Court justices for disqualifying Trump from being on the Colorado ballot. And Trump’s cult MAGA followers are doxxing the Colorado Supreme Court justices and their families! They are going as close as they can to making outright death treats. 15 min. YouTube
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The hydrogen electrolyzers are having problems when run at less than 50% capacity, and have to be shut down. The makers claim that they would run at 30% capacity. At lower capacities the hydrogen leaked into the oxygen can exceed 1.8%, causing explosions. Also the Chinese are building a very long H2 pipeline. Quote “”…the
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Some of these Myths are ridiculous. More needs to be done to spread the truth at the local level. https://vitalsigns.edf.org/story/myths-about-solar-and-wind-could-stall-fight-against-climate-change?ub_tg=718&ub_tc=1&ub_o=26&ub_cta=4&ub_f=t&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=edf_vital-signs_pd_pmt&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_id=1701442776&aud=27
The EIA tells about how California’s excess solar energy is being curtailed. The solar should *not* be curtailed if excess capacity is the sole reason. CAISO should be mandated to curtail fossil fuel power plants before curtailing renewables, obviously because renewables are preventing fossil fuels from having to be burned and hence reducing the amount
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This 600MW/1.6GWh project will make it one of the largest in the world. It’s a billion dollar project. Tesla secures massive 1.6 GWh Megapack order for giant project Quote “”The Megapack has quickly become the go-to solution for large-scale energy storage projects. Last quarter, Tesla reported a record 4 GWh of energy storage deployed. This
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The article was disheartening – but understandably the reality is renewables plus storage is so much cheaper that SMRs can’t compete The utilities will not contract for a nuclear power plant when they can get solar, wind and battery storage for a fraction of the cost per MWh. What I saw no mention of so
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