“”Wind energy is one of America’s fastest-growing power sources, with over 140,000 turbines across the country. Together, they produce more annual electricity than the entire United Kingdom consumes. This renewable energy boom is reducing dependence on fossil fuels, cutting emissions, and creating thousands of jobs. As technology improves, wind farms are becoming more efficient and
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Link to video showing what I commented on below. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1193757159114428/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Did you notice that there are only two conductors going to the pylon in the background? That means this is a DC powerline. And there are six conductors in each bundle. That’s extremely high current, over 5000 amps. But the really amazing thing you can
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This is a 24 minute TED talk. Excellent presentation. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0aF9fgcKAYLdASiCTdD5JsG4ssgVQox2CY1D6d6guM5itTEQJrsvNra7U2WxvVFEEl&id=100084772417379&post_id=100084772417379_pfbid0aF9fgcKAYLdASiCTdD5JsG4ssgVQox2CY1D6d6guM5itTEQJrsvNra7U2WxvVFEEl&mibextid=Nif5oz
A quote from an article from EESI – Environmental and Energy Study Group. Such an enormous amount of money in only a single year! “”There are many kinds of costs associated with fossil fuel use in the form of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution resulting from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels. These
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This 12 minute PBS Weathered video explains wet bulb temperature and shows some good maps and graphs. She tells how humans (and other living things) cannot keep cool when the humidity rises and causes the wet bulb temperature to rise. The person’s core temperature rises and they have heat exhaustion or heat stroke. This can
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For the first time China’s carbon emissions are going down.
China, the world’s largest emîtter of greenhouse gases, could become https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QqdHPx1QoQLwEw1xxZznMEERdXNYbkgfw2WLgDkEbnjQ8hRMYyP6mB1VPbDw1sKTl&id=100070231777183&post_id=100070231777183_pfbid02QqdHPx1QoQLwEw1xxZznMEERdXNYbkgfw2WLgDkEbnjQ8hRMYyP6mB1VPbDw1sKTl&mibextid=Nif5oz Another short article from AP about China and very rapid building of solar and wind. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02jdEmhRuCe6AwP4sA5XvSX8hAzo6UJftmMLT3D9PWXkrSVKeoEoNG8Lk33g8R9JAJl&id=100053093333529&post_id=100053093333529_pfbid02jdEmhRuCe6AwP4sA5XvSX8hAzo6UJftmMLT3D9PWXkrSVKeoEoNG8Lk33g8R9JAJl&mibextid=Nif5oz
Sam Evans Electric Viking video tells us about the change China is making to solar and wind and away from coal and natural gas. Planned new coal power plants are being cancelled. CO2! Emissions and pollution are not rising, they are falling.
and replace them with solar and wind. A 1 min. short video from DW. Spain had some major power outages in the past few weeks and badmouthers are blaming them on wind & solar.
Good Floodlight article about electric grids in neighborhoods and how the poor are suffering – inequality. https://floodlightnews.org/redlining-shaped-the-power-grid-communities-of-color-are-still-paying-the-price/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
