“”You shouldn’t be funding the people who are poisoning you.”” It’s obvious that these lobbying firms are not loyal to one side or the other; they are strictly mercenaries: they’re only in it for the money. I don’t think I would want to be represented by someone who is not sincere about their loyalty. Who
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Western Australia is going to shut down its cold fire power plant in a few years. They’re building several battery energy storage systems to soak up solar energy from rooftop solar systems during the daytime. Western Australia is unique in that their grid is independent from the rest of Australia. What I think is so
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New research has enabled fixating nitrogen easier than by the Haber-Bosch process. About half the world’s food supply depends on the fertilizer made by the Haber-Bosch process. It is imperative that we end the use of fossil fuels in the Haber-Bosch process because its end product is CO2 greenhouse gas. It must be replaced by
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The IPCC plans for 1.5C require that the countries have to do a cutback below BAU – business as usual. Countries incentivize RE – renewable energy – to get it more competitive with FFs – fossil fuels. But FFs say we’re not going to stand by and let this happen and they raise hell saying
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This ‘free energy’ type of battery uses humid air to generate electricity. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power
As I said earlier, China already has 1000 GW of renewables and will soon have 1200 GW, approaching 30% of its total generation. That’s enormous – the whole US has 1300 GW generation total! The Chinese are building wind and solar as fast as they can, and are going to meet their promised goals even
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This is my comment to this article. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/28/solar-will-reach-dominance-as-cheapest-source-of-electricity-in-world-dnv/ What the utilities failed to consider is the extremes in the variability of renewables. The utilities are unwilling to build a sizeable reserve into the system. They refuse to overbuild by a factor of 3 to 6 times, so that the valleys in the supply will be
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This episode of Engineering With Rosie discusses the wind turbine technologies that are being developed and deployed to prevent bird and bat deaths. But wind turbines caused less than 150 thousand deaths in the US; compared the tens of *millions* to hundreds of millions of birds killed by other hazards, or in the case of
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The noise apparently is a whine coming from the inverters. I’ve been working near VFDs – variable frequency drives – and the constant whine is annoying. In this case the whine is legally within acceptable limits. Neighbor dispute risks souring a Connecticut community on solar energy
I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for people who claim that wind turbines chop up birds – they do not! The sea birds avoid offshore wind turbines. Wind turbines on land are installing surveillance cameras and when they spot a bird close to a wind turbine, that turbine is shut down. Furthermore, the oil spills
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