California’s Solar market is a battery market. Interesting article. It says that battery storage is to be used as long term storage. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/14/californias-solar-market-is-now-a-battery-market/
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category:
2022-03-13 Solar Parks Could Increase Rainfall
Solar parks could help to increase rainfall in Saudi Peninsula. This is interesting – the darker solar arrays change the albedo or sunlight reflectivity. Maybe they’ll have to turn the solar parks into agrivoltaics and plant crops under the solar arrays. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/08/solar-parks-could-help-to-increase-rainfall-in-arid-regions/
2022-03-13 Submersing Modular Raft For Floating Solar
This submersible modular raft for floating photovoltaics reduces the damage that could be caused by storms and harsh weather. R and D by a Dutch consortium. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/08/submersing-modular-raft-for-floating-photovoltaics/
2022-03-12 Largest Electrolyzer Plant Under Construction
World’s largest electrolyzer plant is under construction in Queensland, Australia. It will be a huge green energy manufacturing center: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, etc. Eventually use 200 GW – yes, GW! Export green hydrogen made by electrolyzers from Plug Power. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/11/worlds-largest-electrolyzer-plant-now-under-construction/
2022-03-09 Li-Ion In Calif Long Duration Storage Procurement
Second eight hour lithium-ion battery system picked in California long duration storage procurement. https://www.energy-storage.news/second-eight-hour-lithium-ion-battery-system-picked-in-california-long-duration-storage-procurement/
2022-03-09 Electric Truck Hydropower
This is an interesting idea. It has some major problems. Something similar is already being used: trucks hauling ore mined at higher elevations use regenerative braking to charge their battery coming downhill, which is enough to propel the empty truck up the hill for another load, with no need to charge the truck. There are
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2022-03-08 Largest Green Hydrogen Plant In So. Texas
World’s largest green hydrogen plant planned to open in Duval County, So. Texas in 2026. It will be powered by 60 GW of renewable energy and store the hydrogen in underground salt caverns in Piedras Pintas. https://www.inceptivemind.com/ghi-worlds-largest-green-hydrogen-plant-south-texas/23583/
2022-03-07 Nuclear Fusion Is A Waste, In My Opinion
There are other videos on YouTube besides JHAT. There is one from Tech for Luddites that states that obtaining a supply of tritium is the problem. Another video by a nuclear physicist says that the ITER **research** project ends in 2040 and another even more expensive project will then go to 2060, which by then
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2022-03-02 37 Tesla Megapacks In Alaska
And a 1.3 minute video about it. https://electrek.co/2022/03/01/tesla-deploys-big-37-megapack-project-alaska-replace-gas-turbines/
2022-02-27 Recycle Wind Turbine Blades
This YouTube video shows how Veolia and others are recycling wind turbine blades. Veolia makes cement kiln fuel from them. They said that even if the blades ended up in landfills they are only 1/8 of the problem of plastic waste in landfills. https://youtu.be/knX7NkJILhs
