As of 2020-09-01. Has a link to California ARB. https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/california-fcev-sales-fceb-hydrogen-station-data-as-of-september-1-2020/
Archive for the ‘Renewable Energy’ Category:
2020-09-08 Nikola GM Partnership; Hydrogen
From my comments. From what I’ve seen, Nikola is really trying to get rolling with heavy trucks with hydrogen. That’s where Milton doesn’t have to compete with Tesla. The badger pickup with batteries is kind of a hard sell because it will be competing with Tesla, and that’s nearly an impossibility without some biggie like
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2020-09-05 Ammonia To Hydrogen For Fuel
This 2017 article is on a website dedicated to ammonia as a the mechanism for transporting hydrogen to be used as fuel. There is a large amount of hydrogen made into ammonia for fertilizer, so it’s an established industry. But this uses methane AKA natural gas as the source for the hydrogen, so it is
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2020-09-04 Power Outages Caused By Misoperations
This graph is for thevwestern US, I think it said 80 million population. The Misoperations is explained in the text. I noticed that most of the problems seem to be with microprocessors. That must mean there are bugs in the systems. Maybe hardware? Or if the hardware is redundant, then probably software? https://www.wecc.org/epubs/StateOfTheInterconnection/Pages/Misoperations0706-4202.aspx
2020-09-03 Distributed Generation And Islanding
There is a lot of concern for safety when DGs (distributed generators) are connected to the power grid. The grid operators must ensure that none of the DGs feed back into the grid when the grid generator is not operating. They go through several scenarios in this article. https://electrical-engineering-portal.com/protection-impacts-intentional-islanding-distributed-generation From what I see the DG
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2020-09-01 Disruptive Innovation – Ark Invest
The ARK Invest website explains this well, and Cathie Wood, the chief investor, explains it in her YouTube video. Cathie is a believer that Tesla is undervalued. https://ark-invest.com/strategy/ark-disruptive-innovation/
2020-08-31 Costs of Wind Power; Life Cycle GHGs (Wiki)
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source The cost of wind power is less than solar. << In the windy great plains expanse of the central United States new-construction wind power costs in 2017 are compellingly below costs of continued use of existing coal burning plants. Wind power can be contracted via a power purchase agreement at two cents per
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2020-08-28 Nikola Tour; Trevor Milton
This is a long 1h 18min very informative YouTube video all about Nikola (NKLA) and a tour with its chairman, Trevor Milton. When you see their prototyping shop you will see that he’s serious and very passionate about his products. He’s very knowledgeable about his products; he’s a very hands-on person. Trevor said that they
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2020-07-28 Tesla Patent for Battery; Clean Energy Stocks
A comment from YouTube video Tesla’s new patent WO2019241869 https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2019241869&tab=PCTBIBLIO ****************************** Clean energy stock recommendations I’m especially attracted to 2 of them. https://investorplace.com/2020/08/renewable-energy-stocks-are-market-leaders-more-upside-available/amp/ Another attractive stock: https://www.barrons.com/articles/emerson-buys-software-firm-because-utilities-looking-to-digitize-the-grid-51598554036
2020-08-24 Tesla Upcoming Battery Day
When there’s a huge solar energy spill, It’s called A NICE DAY. 👍👍😆😆 ****************************** This author thinks the upcoming Battery Day on Sep 22 will be a revelation of a revolution. Talks about nanowires and supercapacitors. One thing that crossed my mind is why haven’t the battery makers made the batteries like a stack of
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