This YouTube short from Electric Viking talks about how much money rooftop solar will save over their life. But what got me to notice was how much cheaper Australians pay to install solar. I guess the US charges very high tariffs on Chinese solar equipment and that causes the cost to go up.
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category:
2024-08-17 Tesla Secures Massive Megapack Contract
Tesla secures massive contract with power company Intersect Power for its Megapack battery systems: ‘One of the largest and fastest-growing storage portfolios’ https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-secures-massive-contract-power-100000385.html
2024-08-14 GOP States get 85% Of Benefit Of Climate Laws
Quote: “”The new tally shows the overwhelming number of jobs and projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act go to conservative states that back Trump”” https://floodlightnews.org/gop-gets-85-of-the-benefit/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter
2024-08-13 Debunking Myths: “10 Reasons All Electric Is A Bad Idea”
Each point of the link is debunked. Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea #1.) “”Electric systems are awfully wasteful.”” This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants. Yes, 2/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity. But
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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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2024-06-06 Investment In Clean Energy Likely To Be Double Figure For Fossil Fuels, IEA Says
Quote: “”Low-carbon electricity investment driven by solar projects but oil and gas spending still too high to meet climate goals”” The IEA predicts investment in clean energy will reach $2 Trillion in 2024. Quote: “”The warning comes days after a separate IEA report revealed that the world is off track to meet the goal of
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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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2024-05-28 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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2024-05-28 US Offshore Wind: Is It Dead In The Water?
The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines. Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs. Installing WTs is relatively easy
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