A long article, important information about taxation of aviation turbine (jet) fuel. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-wacky-untaxed-world-of-jet-fuel-is-coming-to-an-end/
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category:
2022-02-08 Why Texans Don’t Have Power
This is why 70,000 Texans are without power after the freeze this week. Nice to know that Gov. Abbot is sacrificing Texans for money. https://youtube.com/shorts/qPxLCioEhao More about the (un)reliability of the Texas natural gas supply and why it’s not as cheap as renewables plus storage. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/02/07/the-hidden-costs-of-keeping-gas-plants-online-in-texas-beyond/
2022-02-07 Combinations Of Wind, Solar, Storage
“Cost minimized combinations of wind power, solar power and electrochemical storage, powering the grid 99.9% of the time” Abstract, article, .PDF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775312014759
2022-02-06 Hydrostor CAES Kern Co. Calif
Hydrostor will build a 500 MW, 4000 MWh A-CAES advanced compressed air energy storage system near Rosamond, California. Also another one nearby in San Luis Obispo County. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/12/01/hydrostor-plans-another-compressed-air-energy-storage-project/ Also: https://www.energy-storage.news/hydrostor-seeks-approval-for-3-2gwh-compressed-air-storage-facility-in-california/
2022-02-03 Electricity: China Uses 2600 MW By Year End
Wow! 2600 GW total by year’s end! That’s *twice* as much as the whole US uses! But it’s really amazing that half of that will be renewables, which is a very commendable achievement since China’s renewables have grown a huge amount very quickly. The only sad part is that so much of the total is
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2022-01-20 Pumped Hydro For Long Energy Storage
They say the problem with battery energy storage is that they say it’s not long-term; for renewables we need long-term energy storage. Pumped hydro has been used for a hundred years. Nothing high tech or no scalability issues. Just dig two lakes, one above the other, with pumps and generators between them. The costs may
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2022-01-18 Used And Useful: States Must Enforce – End Waste By Utilities
This opinion article exposes the bad business practices that utilities are guilty of. The electric utilities abuse the ratepayers by passing on their disinformation and bad decisions in the form of increased electricity costs. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/unused-and-useless-states-must-act-to-end-flawed-natural-gas-power-plant-b/616899/
2022-01-18 Florida: Rooftop Solar Bill & Net Metering
The Utilities are complaining about net metering, that the rooftop solar owners are getting back too much money so the non-solar customers must be charged more to make up for the utilities’ losses. They say this is unfair to non-solar customers. To me, this looks like the utilities have a flawed business model. They should
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2022-01-16 You’re Wrong About Hydrogen Cars
This 4 day new LTT video about hydrogen EVs has a much more impartial view of hydrogen EVs. Elon calls hydrogen “… a staggeringly dumb form of energy storage…” But if you compare it to ICEVs, it’s nowhere near as bad. And right now, most vehicles are ICEVs using even more inefficient gasoline. Elon should
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2022-01-13 DOE Upgrade To Electric Grid
They say this is big news. We *need* to have many interconnections between the Eastern and Western power grids. And Texas, too if they had common sense. Several DC interties need to be built so the west can send electricity to the east during daytime. https://electrek.co/2022/01/13/the-big-upgrade-to-the-us-power-grid-is-kicking-off/
