Spain will close most of the coal fired power plants within a year. Plans to stop fossil fuel subsidies and ban new extraction. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/11/climate-heroes-the-countries-pioneering-a-green-future This is what all countries including the US should be doing.
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category:
2020-11-11 Redox Flow W/O Vanadium; Chinese Anti-Capitalism Economics
Researchers have come up with a redox flow battery that uses organic chemicals in place of toxic and expensive vanadium. They cost less than half as much, too. https://youtu.be/YyzQsVzKylE We need to have millions of these made and deployed over the whole world to solve the intermittent renewables problem. Chinese Anti-capitalist economics The capitalist way
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Generate Hydrogen With A Solar Concentrator = Parabolic Mirror + Other Hydrogen Articles
This needs an expensive catalyser. But the solar energy is free and it generates about a kilogram of hydrogen a day, which can power a car for 150 km. We need green hydrogen to power the whole world and leave the fossil fuels in the ground. Now! https://youtu.be/uj-xFUnN96k ************************** The European Commission plans on having
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2020-10-19 What’s Causing Climate Change In 10 Charts
Quote from end of Vox article >> In the end, the conversation about responsibility leads where all climate conversations lead: The only hope of avoiding catastrophic damage is most every country decarbonizing as rapidly as they are capable, regardless of their histories and rivalries. Electricity must be rapidly decarbonized to get rid of coal; heating
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2020-10-15 Irrigate With Moisture From Air
I’ve seen so many locations in Southern California that are pretty much barren mostly because the country is lacking water. The cost of water in So. Cal. is high because there are so many people that the water they need has to be imported from hundreds of miles away — as far as Northern California.
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2020-10-13 Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, Acid Rain, Etc.
What do we have to do to wake people up? This is a good article about actions we, the whole world, took decades ago to stop acid rain, ozone depletion, etc. We have to take action again with climate change! NOW!! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/12/climate-crisis-campaigns-pledge-real-change A quote from this article: >> But a changing political discourse in many
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2020-10-11 Right To Repair
This morning on CBS Sunday Morning they had an article about a farmer who couldn’t repair his $800,000 John Deere tractor and lost several days of work. There is a growing movement in the US to make laws that require manufacturers to allow their customers to repair the equipment they own. This is a backlash
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2020-10-09 Gencell A5 System Powered By Ammonia
The Gencell A5 can power a cell site for a year 27/7/365 from a 12 ton tank of anhydrous ammonia. The tank is not pressurized and is at room temperature. The system converts ammonia to hydrogen and nitrogen and the hydrogen powers the fuel cells. https://www.gencellenergy.com/markets-applications/off-grid-power/
2020-10-07 The Solenco PowerBox™ System
This self-contained system uses solar PV panels as the only power input. It generates and stores green hydrogen, then uses it later for both electricity and heat. The fuel cell’s byproduct is water. One important “problem” that I see is that this system makes the customer completely independent of the electricity _and_ gas utilities. There
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2020-10-04 “Renewable Energy Is The Scam …”
My comment on YouTube video https://youtu.be/lL6uB1z95gA After actively disparaging renewables, he says, “I’m not actively disparaging renewables…” He makes this big stink about how renewables take up so much more land than nuclear. This is totally irrelevant! Farmers in Iowa, Nebraska have the wind turbines out in the middle if their crop fields; no problem.
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