The chart from Bloomberg NEF predicts that by 2050 the world will still have 24% of global electricity produced by fossil fuels. We must switch to more renewables sooner or there will be no future. https://theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-future-well-the-outlook-is-worse-than-even-scientists-can-grasp-153091
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category:
2021-01-03 Myth: Wind Turbines Cause Climate Change
The anti-wind turbine NIMBYs will try to grasp at any excuse to get rid of wind turbines. One myth is that they cause heating and climate change. Not true. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/myth-debunked-wind-farms-dont-alter-climate-180949701/ More anti-wind turbine rebuttals: 2021-04-19 << DISCUSSIONS Michael Goggin on Sep 9, 2011 Hi Willem, It is unfortunate to see people continuing to propagate the
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2021-01-02 Plug Gigafactory In Rochester, NY
This is good to hear. The article mentions hydrolyzers being built. https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/reports-plug-power-new-gigafactory-to-be-located-in-rochester-area/
2021-01-01 Biden’s Ambitious Climate Plans – $2 Trillion
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/08/932160547/biden-will-face-major-limits-to-his-ambitious-climate-plans Quote: << “Investing in renewables and energy efficiency generates more than twice as many jobs as investing in fossil fuels,” says Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the World Resources Institute. >>
2020-12-27 Byron Bay, AU Solar Powered Train
This train runs using an EV battery! Amazing. We need a lot more like it. Tom Scott’s short video https://youtu.be/6Y4QGFte3T8 More information on this and other solar trains https://futurism.com/worlds-first-fully-solar-powered-train-left-station
2020-12-08 Fed Court Rejects Trump’s Approval of Antarctic Offshore Drilling Project
It’s time the world stops expansion of fossil fuels and expand clean renewables. The Orange Orangutan has done enough damage to the US and the world. Waiting for Jan 20 to get rid of Don the Con. And I don’t feel one bit of guilt calling Trump names because he calls HRC ‘crooked Hillary’ and
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2020-11-11 Spain To Ban New Extraction, Subsidies, Close Coal Plants
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.
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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