Bill Sherman told me about SMES which has already been put into use commercially. One of the concerns is how much energy is wasted to keep the magnets cryogenically cold. Another cost concern is the superconducting coil has to be made of a material that contains very expensive rare metals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energy_storage
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category:
2021-07-10 Food Made From Captured Carbon
This is something I haven’t read about, a way to capture CO2 and use it and microbes to grow protein. https://www.dezeen.com/2021/06/29/carbon-solar-foods-pasi-vainikka-solein/ It says we exhale much of the carbon we eat. I started thinking about the possibility of someday we would wear a breathing apparatus that captures the CO2 we exhale and use something, possibly
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2021-07-09 Tesla Partners In New Housing Project
The homes will have rooftop solar plus Powerwalls. https://bam.brookfield.com/press-releases/2021/07-09-2021-200014929
2021-07-09 Hydrogen Can Do What Batteries can’t do
From FB group Heinz Baumann Your chart fails to show the whole picture. The chart doesn’t show that the renewables can’t supply the total electricity demand until the 20 to 35% capacity factor is accounted for by building 3 or more times the solar or wind that is needed. During the winter due to less
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2021-07-09 Resilient Grid Proposed For Surging Power Demand
This article is about the proposal to build distribution and transmission infrastructure to allow renewables to get to the consumers. But it’s obvious that the electric utilities are promoting this because the utilities are afraid that rooftop solar will take away the utilities’ control of where the electricity comes from. The rooftop solar plus battery
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2021-07-07 Pro-fossil Groups Stall Rooftop Solar
Solar advocacy groups reveal the playbook pro-fossil groups use to stall rooftop solar. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/solar-advocacy-groups-unveil-playbook-used-by-pro-fossil-fuel-groups-to-stall-rooftop-solar/ Quote: << California’s heated battle The battle for the future of rooftop solar is at particularly high pitch in California where utilities are using the playbook described in this report to push for drastic changes to net metering in California. Earlier
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2021-07-03 Lilienthal And Nuclear Power
For those who claim that nuclear power is safe. Here is a quote from Wikipedia biography on David E. Lilienthal: << In his 1963 book, Change, Hope and the Bomb, Lilienthal criticized nuclear developments, denouncing the nuclear industry’s failure to have addressed the dangers of nuclear waste. He suggested that a civil atomic energy program
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2021-07-03 The Myths Of August — Fusion
p.259 << FUSION For over three decades, the goal of fusion research has been to build a machine to harness the violent process that powers the stars and ignites hydrogen bombs. The daunting challenge confronting scientists and engineers working on this project has been to design a reactor that would provide inexhaustible energy by enabling
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2021-06-30 New 142 Megapacks Near Oxnard
Saticoy facility replaces gas peaker plant. There are huge solar and wind farms east of this facility, in Tehachapi. They got rid of a fossil fuel plant. https://electrek.co/2021/06/30/tesla-megapacks-power-on-battery-replacing-gas-peaker-plant-california/#disqus_thread
2021-06-30 New Solar Is Cheaper To Build Than To Run Existing Coal Plants
Report from BloombergNEF says new solar is cheaper to build than to run existing coal plants in many cou,ntries. Tony Seba’s (RethinkX) prediction was correct. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/report-its-now-cheaper-to-build-new-solar-than-to-run-existing-coal-plants-in-china-india-and-most-of-europe/
