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.
Archive for the ‘wind turbine’ Category:
2024-10-01 Touchwind One Piece Rotor Offshore Wind Turbine
Touchwind uses a one piece 200 meter rotor for its offshore wind turbine.
2024-09-26 How One Iowa Company Is Recycling Wind Turbine Blades
How one Iowa company is recycling wind turbine blades – 2 minute video. “”The avreage life of wind turbine blades is about 20 years.””
2024-09-05 Do Wind Turbines Kill A Lot Of Birds?
Buildings, vehicles, power lines kill hundreds of millions of birds each year. The following is from: reddit.com/r/energy 24 days agohmatveev “”Do wind turbines really kill a lot of birds? I did some calculationsHey guys, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about wind turbines being “bird killers” lately, especially after Trump called them “graveyards for
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2024-09-01 Wind Turbines “Challenges” Make Them Look Bad
This short video makes wind turbines look like they’re catching fire or destroying themselves. It’s not a fair representation. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1491510351491684?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-05-28 US Offshore Wind: Is It Dead In The Water?
The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines. Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs. Installing WTs is relatively easy
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2024-04-29 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Might Have Already Peaked – They Need To Fall FAST
This is a long article in Vox with many links and some important graphs. Climate Change is already affecting the Earth. https://www.vox.com/climate/24139383/climate-change-peak-greenhouse-gas-emissions-action
2024-04-16 California 100% Renewables for 30 Days!
That’s great news! One thing I just remembered is that the nuclear power plants (Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde) usually shut down for maintenance in the spring when demand is lowest. Otherwise they normally run 24/7 and there wouldn’t be any time during the day when it would be 100% renewables. https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
2024-04-12 Florida GOP Operative Admits Role In ‘Ghost’ Candidate Scheme That Defeated Utility-targeted Dem
Dark money supported 3rd party candidates who siphoned off votes from Democrats, giving Republicans state congressional seats. This money came from Florida Power & Light. It was meant to defeat those who supported clean renewable energy. https://floodlightnews.org/florida-gop-ghost-candidate/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
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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