The city of Esbjerg, Denmark is replacing its coal fired city heating system with an amazing giant heat pump, biomass boilers and waste burning boilers. The refrigerant is CO2. Read the description. This is a long 43 minutes but is very comprehensive and interesting. The cost is about 40 million Euros.
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category:
2024-04-05 Graphic Shows Renewables Percent Of Total Electric Generation 2000 to 2023
This is a very good graphic of the percent of total electricity renewables have grown to since 2000. Notice the bulging in April and September, and flattening during the summer. These are caused by the changes in demand during the hot weather. We need this to be 100% ASAP in order to prevent climate disaster!
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2024-03-25 Ohio Solar Farm Largest US Agrivoltaics Project
Very short article. Ohio’s largest solar farm will be the largest US agrivoltaics project. The Oak Run Solar Project is 800 MW, with 300 MW battery storage. Ohio’s largest solar farm will also be the US’s largest agrivoltaics project
2024-03-23 Pennsylvania To Build Its Largest Solar Farm To Replace Coal Power Plant
Great! One less coal plant. There are more than 100 more coal plants that need to be shut down ASAP. Pennsylvania’s largest solar farm will replace its largest coal plant
2024-03-22 Ocean Kite Generates Electric Power
The ocean kite travels in a figure 8 and its turbine and generator send power to shore. This YouTube short briefly shows its action. https://youtube.com/shorts/WKsiSGvDTiw?si=P7Ro-rjQTcE-QKdj
2024-03-21 EVs Enable The Global Decarbonization With V2G – Another Myth Debunked
Another myth debunked. This Electric Viking YouTube video under 10 minutes. “Quote from video starting at about the 8:06. “Now, here is what Climate Energy Finance said about this study. Batteries on wheels – electric vehicles – should be viewed as one of the most important enablers of the full decarbonization of the global energy
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2024-03-20 Claims By House Committee Are Dubious
This is claiming that the grid will be overloaded, but that claim is contradicted by the latest figures that show the grid has use 1% **less** electricity. The following URL claims that the grid will not be able to handle the growing load. This would be true *if* the grid was the only source of
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2024-03-18 HVDC Is The New Pipeline Says Michael Barnard
Very informative article about several things involving fossil fuels. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/12/02/most-pipelines-will-be-replaced-with-hvdc-but-rest-will-be-electrified/?fbclid=IwAR0KNFVVUjgqXL3xLMiKcELNHMz4YZZUgoUGQTd-lOx1xsiVXe1KEWtlM68&sh=caba8276118e
2024-03-16 US Hydrogen Industry Kicks Into High Gear
This article is mostly about Plug Power, which they call a startup. They talk about the the BIL – Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and its funding incentives. US Green Hydrogen Industry Kicks Into High Gear, Politics Or Not https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/15/us-green-hydrogen-industry-kicks-into-high-gear-politics-or-not/
2024-03-15 Decoupled Supercapacitive Electrolyzer For Membrane-free Water Splitting
The above is the title of the research paper. The article below is some 3rd or 4th party news source. This electrolyzer uses a single electrode to produce both the hydrogen and oxygen, depending on polarity. They claim that this reduces the chance that hydrogen and oxygen might mix and make an explosive mixture. But
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