Sun Cable plans to build 17 to 20 gigawatt plus battery storage in Australia to power Singapore through undersea cable. $30 billion (Aus). To show how Ginormous this project is, divide 20 billion watts by 1000 watts, then multiply by 2.5 (400 watts per panel). So 20 million times 2.5 is FIFTY MILLION solar panels!!
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90 GW is a huge amount of solar – that’s like adding 30 full sized power plants! But China’s voracious appetite for an ever increasing amount of electricity is causing them to build more fossil fuel power plants. What the world needs is to end the horrible addiction to cheap throwaway goods from China and
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San Diego Gas & Electric talk about electrification, which I assume means changing from natural gas to electricity. They base their predictions on needing more renewables plus storage and green hydrogen. They haven’t taken into account that by 2045, sea level rise may force hundreds of thousands of people to have to relocate further inland.
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This self-contained solar PV factory takes in sand and electricity in and puts out solar panels. But where do the other materials come from? Like the metal frame, the solder, the copper wire? https://www.inceptivemind.com/maana-electric-terrabox-turns-sand-electricity-solar-panels/20389/
Dave @ JHAT discusses photovoltaic thermal panels and a system by Sunova. The panels are kept cooler and can last much longer – fifty years. My patron comment: The solar water heater panels have been in use for many decades, since before 1980. I’ve often thought that solar PV should be sandwiched with these solar
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New Wind, Solar just Keeping Up With Growth In Demand! We need more! https://electrek.co/2022/03/30/in-a-world-first-solar-and-wind-generated-10-of-power-for-50-countries-in-2021/ This article seems to paint a picture that’s too rosy. This “global think tank” doesn’t have as much credibility as the UN IPCC. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/04/08/solar-power-on-pace-to-save-the-world/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/29/solar-starts-strong-in-the-u-s-growing-40-year-over-year-in-january/ Comment on FB group (look at the bar graph) This article said “…Nearly 40% year-over-year.” That’s good but not good enough. That needs to be more than 100% year-over-year. The whole solar industry depends on the wafer fabrication facilities, which have grown but demand is still exceeding the supply. The US needs a large
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Misinformation, especially on Facebook and social media, is derailing renewable energy projects across the US. These fools are going to cause the planet to suffer greatly. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1086790531/renewable-energy-projects-wind-energy-solar-energy-climate-change-misinformation
Cohoes, NY will use reservoir for 4 MW solar array. Quote: << “…researchers estimate that installing floating solar photovoltaics on the more than 24,000 man-made U.S. reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of the nation’s annual electricity production.” >> https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/20/tiny-cohoes-to-floating-solar-wallflowers-catch-me-if-you-can/
This article outlines the incredibly huge amount of solar panels that China is supplying to be installed, much of them in China. The figures are astounding! Quote: << Thus far, 24 of China’s 31 provinces and regions have set out five-year-plan renewables targets which include plans for 375-420GW of solar by 2025 – around 75-84GW
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