This cannon is used in a vinyard and the shockwave is so powerful it disrupts the formation of hail stones. I’m seeing a lot of badmouthing solar panels that got broken by hail. Well, here is a possible preventive solution. https://www.facebook.com/reel/344539995276131?mibextid=9drbnH
Archive for the ‘Solar’ Category:
2024-08-11 Solar Panels And Hazardous Waste
Most solar panels do not have lead or cadmium – they have to meet the ROHS – restriction on hazardous substances. If they do, the hazardous wastes are sealed inside. If panels are broken they are quickly replaced because the solar system is losing money as long as the panels are out of service. “”Based
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2024-07-30 China Has Installed More Solar Power Capacity Than The Rest Of The World Combined
https://youtu.be/yfzYK4NJHHU?si=gP95z8Dk7mhDw99P A more detailed article about China’s and other countries’ PV:https://internationalbanker.com/finance/china-continues-expanding-its-global-dominance-in-solar-power/ “”China has installed more solar power capacity than the rest of the world combined, both last year and this year… In fact, it has installed more than 600 gigawatts since November 2023.””Sam said at time 3:25 in this YouTube video (later he said according
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2024-06-03 LDES Increasingly Competitive But Unlikely To Match Li-ion’s Cost Reductions
The cost of Lithium-ion batteries is still dropping and sodium-ion batteries use even lower cost materials, so it’s likely that the long duration energy storage – LDES – will not catch up for some time. One LDES is green hydrogen, and hydrogen LDES systems seem to have stagnated, partly due to the falling prices of
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2024-05-29 Renewables Provided Almost 30% of US Electrical Generation In March
That’s great to see! There needs to be more BESS – battery energy storage systems – on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets. Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot
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2024-05-29 Solar Panel Controller To Charge Lead-Acid Battery
This is a simple charge controller that includes a dump load to dissipate excess power from the PV panel. D1 is the reference voltage that feed the 393 comparators, and its forward voltage changes with temperature. It would be better to use a low power LM317 to give a stable 1.25 volts. Instead of a
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2024-05-28 Many More EV Batteries – Solution To Grid Storage
Article about recycling EV batteries versus using EV batteries for stationary storage. At this time, recycling is not very efficient. Quote: ““Today we are not very good at recovering metals, loosing almost all the lithium, silicon, phosphorus, aluminum, and graphite, while recovering only copper, cobalt, and nickel which are more expensive,” he says.”” This suggests
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2024-05-21 How Renewables Could Beat Natural Gas In US Generating Capacity Within 3 Years
Quote: “”Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity. The latest capacity additions have brought solar’s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., >1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s
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2024-05-13 Autonomous Solar Tracking System
For each direction of travel, it consists of two solar cells connected in parallel opposing to a motor that’s geared down to turn the tracking so both solar cells are in the shade. https://www.facebook.com/reel/7341922389263306?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-05-12 Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity
This link to the article is supposed to be free, and *not* behind a paywall. This well-researched article is a good article, with some statements that are disputable. One example is that they state that lithium batteries are flammable. The LFP cells now used in battery storage systems are low to not flammable. There are
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