For those of you who believe that solar panels are not recyclable, here’s proof that they are. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1931774380659434/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘generation’ Category:
2024-11-20 China Not Approving Coal Power Plants, Instead New Renewables Being Built
China is installing renewables and battery storage at a record pace. Sam Electric Viking tells us all about it – 10.7 min. video. China has installed more solar this year than the rest of the world combined.
2024-11-02 AI Data Centers To Use Up To 40% More Electricity; Cleaning Snow Off Solar Panels
The demand for electricity will be up to 40% more just for AI data centers. Steve Hanley’s sarcasm about watching Tik Tok videos are included, no extra charge. https://cleantechnica.com/2024/10/30/update-ai-data-centers-the-demand-for-electricity/amp/ Video of track vehicle cleaning snow off solar panels. https://www.facebook.com/memezarrr/videos/2897041153788366/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-10-05 Floatovoltaics – Floating Solar Panels
Floating solar panels are called Floatovoltaics. Short video. Another floating solar farm in Utah, now complete. It’s a 587.5 kW array. Utah’s first floating solar farm is complete
2024-10-01 Touchwind One Piece Rotor Offshore Wind Turbine
Touchwind uses a one piece 200 meter rotor for its offshore wind turbine.
2024-09-24 Solar Goes EXPONENTIAL – Surpasses Even Tony Seba’s Predictions
Sam Evans the Electric Viking’s 13 min. video extolls the virtues of solar and how even more is being installed than last year. Predicted 593 Gigawatts! It’s even exceeding Tony Seba’s predictions.
2024-07-30 China Has Installed More Solar Power Capacity Than The Rest Of The World Combined
https://youtu.be/yfzYK4NJHHU?si=gP95z8Dk7mhDw99P A more detailed article about China’s and other countries’ PV:https://internationalbanker.com/finance/china-continues-expanding-its-global-dominance-in-solar-power/ “”China has installed more solar power capacity than the rest of the world combined, both last year and this year… In fact, it has installed more than 600 gigawatts since November 2023.””Sam said at time 3:25 in this YouTube video (later he said according
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2024-05-29 Renewables Provided Almost 30% of US Electrical Generation In March
That’s great to see! There needs to be more BESS – battery energy storage systems – on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets. Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot
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2024-05-21 How Renewables Could Beat Natural Gas In US Generating Capacity Within 3 Years
Quote: “”Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity. The latest capacity additions have brought solar’s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., >1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s
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