“”France has restarted its entire nuclear fleet after emergency maintenance … The years 2022 and 2023 were the most difficult in the recent history of French nuclear energy. An unprecedented wave of stress corrosion cracking discovered in the cooling circuits of multiple reactors forced simultaneous outages across a large fraction of the fleet … EDF’s
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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. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid028ZMxJRtnzemcj46uq9d4umqztWpJDeWnuGLhaSo2dcE1erQqvW4xeRK1UZyYxsfJl&id=100064453789721&post_id=100064453789721_pfbid028ZMxJRtnzemcj46uq9d4umqztWpJDeWnuGLhaSo2dcE1erQqvW4xeRK1UZyYxsfJl&mibextid=NOb6eG
Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project. 220,000 acres of federal land in Carbon County, Wyoming. Installed 1000 turbines. Average wind speed 9.2 meters/sec. year around. Project required a HVDC and HVAC line called the TransWest Express. Longest onshore HVDC transmission line in the US. 732 miles of high-voltage transmission infrastructure consisting of two systems:
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Portugal opens the world’s first commercial wave energy project on the Atlantic Coast, called the Peniche Wave Array. 24 oscillating wave converters generating 40 Megawatts from Atlantic Ocean swells. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0FQSmZG46DtvJnwmqf9xKmGhWEUonV3A1y4ubKqmxfVk75SQsfaeWY98RKEYEoZhMl&id=61579273676681&post_id=61579273676681_pfbid0FQSmZG46DtvJnwmqf9xKmGhWEUonV3A1y4ubKqmxfVk75SQsfaeWY98RKEYEoZhMl&mibextid=NOb6eG
Iowa has the highest percentage share of wind energy of any state. However Texas gets much more Megawatts of wind. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02gXQiZJUiaWDaPbxe7m9QcuWCxwbK8tyG2w6CcBe8SHqQfJLFWV7JwrXS9Yujgbrxl&id=100093822948697&post_id=100093822948697_pfbid02gXQiZJUiaWDaPbxe7m9QcuWCxwbK8tyG2w6CcBe8SHqQfJLFWV7JwrXS9Yujgbrxl&mibextid=CDWPTG
Planned coal retirements last year totaled 8.0 gigawatts. Only 2.6 gigawatts actually shut down. Why did the U.S. Department of Energy step in? Because reliability warnings are getting louder. In its latest assessments, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warns that large portions of the Midwest face a high risk of electricity shortfalls during
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Being replaced with renewables plus battery storage. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0bBkfMKyqZsjyQMPuNQJr2XzrtdhhPk3CVm8WRFn89T3zdtci6oQwn3Mm5tHvb7fLl&id=100050608264103&post_id=100050608264103_pfbid0bBkfMKyqZsjyQMPuNQJr2XzrtdhhPk3CVm8WRFn89T3zdtci6oQwn3Mm5tHvb7fLl&mibextid=CDWPTG
Graph showing drop in renewables over the last decade or so. https://www.facebook.com/100083516882613/posts/pfbid029T4wi3N5BUTjGarpzSCddu4E3vEA5S1Hxdd8D1X3ZYHWGbSvYYdmR9JTdXmZKjzRl/?mibextid=Nif5oz
It’s a 15 min. video partly in German without translation. From DW Planet A.
https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/las-clean-energy-future-mayor-bass-opens-one-countrys-largest-solar-battery-energy-storage?fbclid=IwVERTSAOkWaNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR747xHLoapNs8SAzi9HXK6OVbpVu40Pcwf-meT9812tpLZe5o5QDHGRZ0Ha1A_aem_493ztAAb8afso1LNrk4dBw
