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2024-03-18 HVDC Is The New Pipeline Says Michael Barnard

Very informative article about several things involving fossil fuels. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/12/02/most-pipelines-will-be-replaced-with-hvdc-but-rest-will-be-electrified/?fbclid=IwAR0KNFVVUjgqXL3xLMiKcELNHMz4YZZUgoUGQTd-lOx1xsiVXe1KEWtlM68&sh=caba8276118e

2024-03-12 Keeping The Grid In Balance

At the end he said “… keeping the grid in balance with millions of tons of spinning inertia.”  Well, this is now being simulated by the electronics in the battery energy storage systems and other electronics.  It’s called VMM – virtual machine mode. Soon, there will be very few thermal power plants left after all

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2024-03-10 Battery Prices Fall 50% And More

By this 2024 summer even lower battery prices. Battery prices collapsing, grid-tied energy storage expanding

2024-03-01 Elon’s Plan To Power The USA

Well, Elon never said it was a plan.  He just calculated that there are about 750 watts per square meter at the latitude of the middle of the US.  The solar panels are about 20% efficient.  So 1/5 of 750 is 150.  The US needs about 1300 gigawatts of power.  So divide that by 150

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2024-02-28 Smart Plugs, Power Strip

This is IoT internet of things.  You can turn something on or off from anywhere.  You can schedule it to turn on or off at certain times.  Says, “…made my life 1000 times easier.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kasa-smartplugs-sale_l_65dcb876e4b0e4346d533b5d/amp

2024-02-24 Reconductoring To Increase Grid Capacity

Reconductoring: The Quick Way To Double Grid Capacity https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/24/reconductoring-the-quick-way-to-double-grid-capacity/

2024-02-20 Small Modular Thorium Molten Salt Reactors Are Coming To Europe

There is one issue that all nuclear plants have and that Sabine didn’t address, and that’s the huge consumption of water that all thermal plants have.  Building nuclear or any thermal plants near a source of coolant water is necessary, and that can become a major conflict when most populated areas are also near water. 

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2024-02-15 India To Build 30 GW Solar And Wind Facility

30 Gigawatts!  They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes.  This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time.  It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels.  The other 15GW would

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2024-02-13 Tesla To Build Largest 164 Stall Supercharging Station In California

That’s a lot of stalls! I also made a few calculations.  The canopies at GF Texas have 9 by 4 = 36 solar panels.  Assume each panel puts out 350 Watts. 350 * 36 = 12.6 kW. Each canopy covers 4 stalls, so 164 stalls divided by 4 = 41 canopies. 12.6 kW * 41

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2024-02-10 China Says Wind, Solar Are About 40% Of Installed Power Generation

The 15 MW onshore wind turbine’s blades are the least of this news.  The following is the big part of this story.  Quote: “”The China Electricity Council said in its latest annual report that wind and solar would make up around 40% of the country’s installed power generation capacity by the end of 2024 –

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