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Archive for the ‘generation’ Category:
2025-11-13 Grid Forming Vs Grid Following Inverters – Engineering With Rosie
This video is important because it shows that the electrical engineers’ claims that the grid must have rotating inertia has been superceded by electronics and software – grid forming inverters. Starting at about the 10:00 point she tells us about grid forming inverters as opposed to rotating inertia such as synchronous condensers. In the last
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2025-11-09 There Are Enough Parking Lots To Generate 1.5 Terawatts With Solar
Links to a few good articles about rooftop or car parking lot solar. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02pKEnCKUbJ26vWPDzUFaC8KPRnEeX5GzF9rnCYRTgXfh9yTNg2c41ARo6NN7B3Wzfl&id=100050608264103&post_id=100050608264103_pfbid02pKEnCKUbJ26vWPDzUFaC8KPRnEeX5GzF9rnCYRTgXfh9yTNg2c41ARo6NN7B3Wzfl&mibextid=Nif5oz
2025-10-28 Wind, Solar Generate More Power Than Coal
For the first time wind and solar generate more than coal. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02z6aUuR6Ak22gyd4Qm3jVSU8h46wXXEq4sgTpQmELm8g55MSveg3rKy48JGe6qiSCl&id=100064405640816&post_id=100064405640816_pfbid02z6aUuR6Ak22gyd4Qm3jVSU8h46wXXEq4sgTpQmELm8g55MSveg3rKy48JGe6qiSCl&mibextid=Nif5oz
2025-09-11 China Is Rapidly Electrifying Transport, Heating, Industry
China is rapidly replacing fossil fueled generation with wind, solar and battery storage. China’s cities have had extremely bad air pollution and millions of premature deaths caused by the poor air quality. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0A95bJkVFSCeJNYVxwTmSZMpuD7mAyT64FAbbatsN7bSrpoUxBCj3oSm3i8N6NLTWl&id=100050608264103&post_id=100050608264103_pfbid0A95bJkVFSCeJNYVxwTmSZMpuD7mAyT64FAbbatsN7bSrpoUxBCj3oSm3i8N6NLTWl&mibextid=6yaNxA
2025-08-30 Colorado River: America’s Ticking Time Bomb
“”BREAKING: A water expert breaks the stunning news about “America’s deadliest ticking time bomb” with a must-read thread on the staggering collapse of the Colorado River. This should be one of the biggest stories in the country right now…”” The Colorado is just the tip of the iceberg. Other rivers will have the same problem
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2025-07-21 Plant Vogtle Cooling Tower Uses 15,000 Gallons A Minute Of Cooling Water
That’s over 80 million liters per day! You have to realize that these new nuclear power plants make 4 billion watts of heat and about 1.4 billion goes out as electric power. The remaining heat has to be dissipated as heat – so it goes into the water in the cooling tower. https://www.facebook.com/southernnuclear/videos/708110578766188/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-07-09 China’s 15 GW Solar Farms Are Also Growing Crops – Agrivoltaics
The Chinese rural folk in Guizhou are benefitting from the farms and jobs. The farmers are getting paid for the use of their land. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02FACPr5ynWg456ZkN5exRc1DY31rirMeteCNnzbDjhKPDUv9VRinFHJSxqqkKXURnl&id=100050306297601&post_id=100050306297601_pfbid02FACPr5ynWg456ZkN5exRc1DY31rirMeteCNnzbDjhKPDUv9VRinFHJSxqqkKXURnl&mibextid=6yaNxA Another short about solar in China. Says 70% of electricity in China is supplied by these solar panels. They’re plowing the desert to install solar panels. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1940260953385737/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-06-21 US Nuclear Plants Rated By Quake Risk
“”A ranking of the nation’s 104 commercial nuclear reactors is shown at the bottom of this article, listing the NRC estimate of risk of an earthquake causing core damage.”” What are the odds? The riskiest isn’t what you think. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42103936
2025-06-20 Batteries Are So Cheap Now Solar Power Doesn’t Sleep
Electrek article. “”A new report from global energy think tank Ember says batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world.”” “”And as battery tech keeps improving, round-the-clock solar could become the backbone of clean energy systems
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