Article is about other issues, too, but it says First Solar is doing good. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/10/40-year-slog-through-solar-panel-wilderness-ends-in-vindication-for-the-robots/
Archive for the ‘Solar’ Category:
2021-09-08 Wind, Solar More Scaleable in China
In this article the author assesses the statuses of wind, solar and nuclear in China. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/09/05/a-decade-of-wind-solar-nuclear-in-china-shows-clear-scalability-winners/
2021-09-07 Solar Turns Barren Land Green In China
In a solar farm, once barren land has turned green and grassy under the solar panels. Quote: << Every morning, herder Xiang Zhankui takes more than 2,000 sheep to the green industrial development park in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture for grazing. “In the past, the barren land did not have grass at all. Now,
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2021-09-05 New Mexico Is Going Green
My comment: New Mexico’s progress is an example that all states should try to emulate. It’s great to see that most of these projects also have storage. New Mexico is part of the western power grid, and when Texas had the blackout during the February winter storm, the El Paso area was also hooked to
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2021-08-28 1 MW Solar Array
This 5+ min. mostly drone aerial video is on YouTube. This is in Greece. There are 54 panels per group. There are 56 groups, for 3024 panels total. The power is 330 watts per panel, for 17.82 kW per group. https://youtu.be/0mrBRPYjxzw
2021-08-15 LCOEs + Forecasts For 2030, 2040
Renewables are lower than fossil fuels. Study by Fraunhofer in Germany which has less sunlight. https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/13/new-study-renewables-much-cheaper-than-fossils-levelized-cost-of-electricity-lcoe-study/
2021-08-07 Electricity Generated By State
Article graphs EIA reports on electricity generated by state. “Small scale solar” is supposed to include rooftop solar. California comes out far ahead with solar. Texas is far ahead with wind. What must be done is get those many lagging states to convert away from coal and to renewables. Some states have very little wind
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2021-07-27 Tesla: Shortages Slow Megapack Production
The global chip shortage and supply chain shortages slow Tesla’s production of Megapacks. They have an 80,000 order backlog but could produce only 35,000. Musk thinks there will be a demand for a million Megapacks a year due to renewables replacing fossil fuels. Energy products revenue was more than $800 million. Quote: << Although Tesla
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2021-07-26 Nuclear Fusion Research Is A Waste Of Money
From FB comment Paddy Mendez The money spent on fusion research is wasted because thermonuclear fusion is *already* available, free of charge, to anyone who wants it. That wasted fusion money could have instead been spent on “pure scientific research” and “a great many advances [could] have come from them and many more to follow”
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2021-07-25 Sunlight To Split H2O Into Hydrogen
<< Making hydrogen is hard, but researchers have solved a major hurdle. >> The article doesn’t say if it’s electrolysis. But the efficiency must be better than electrolysis for it to replace electrolysis. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uota-mch071921.php I think it might be more practical to combine a solar array, electrolytic hydrogen generator and other equipment into a single
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