This is a horror story. This Frontline episode first aired 2017 Oct 11. << Make the regulated the regulators >> AKA Foxes in charge of the chicken coop. Thank God we got rid of Trump and Scott Pruitt and the EPA can now get back to doing what it’s supposed to be doing. https://youtu.be/vFfYKOTj-48
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category:
2021-06-23 Glass Fiber & Concrete Flywheel For Storage
This French company uses glass fiber reinforced flywheels for energy storage instead of steel. Quote: << Gennesseaux went on to say. “We are around 10 grams of CO2 per kWh, while lithium-ion batteries are around 40g CO2/kWh, at the same level as steel flywheels.”>> Initially the flywheel will store 10 kWh. It’s buried underground. Steel
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2021-06-22 How Much Land To Power US?
This article gives an excellent idea of the amount of land to power all of the US using solar panels. Note that the 20,000 sq. mi figure is revised to 10,000 sq. mi or a 100 by 100 mile square that would easily fit in the Mojave Desert, assuming rooftop solar was on most homes.
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2021-06-20 Thermal Power Plants Use 41% Of The Water
There are those who complain about the amount of water used to mine the battery raw materials such as lithium. But the water used to mine a kg of lithium is only used once. They also complain about the water or other materials used to make wind turbines. That water is used only once. But
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2021-06-19 End Of Fossil Fuels
Watson Fixer Q.) How do you figure this? Only 44% of oil is used as fuel. The other 56% is used for thousands of different products. Just because a car doesn’t use fossil fuel, doesn’t mean a major portion of it isn’t produced with oil! Most products in our society require oil to be produced.
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2021-06-15 Future Hydrogen in Europe and Australia
The rest of the world is planning on building hydrogen generation infrastructure for replacing fossil fuels. This is an interesting article about plans in Europe and Australia. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/07/the-hydrogen-stream-more-hydrogen-for-the-ports-of-rotterdam-and-antwerp/
2021-06-13 How Much Land To Power The World
This short TED video gives some interesting statistics about how much land it will take to power the world – which is 3 terawatts. They don’t give any info on who or where this information came from. I think some of it isn’t accurate. The United States generates about 1.2 terawatts of power. https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_ed_how_much_land_does_it_take_to_power_the_world
2021-06-07 How Much Water Is Needed By Electric Generators?
How much water is needed by the electric generators? Scroll down to Renewable vs. non-renewable energy sources and look at the graph. Coal power is the worst. https://www.electricrate.com/data-center/electricity-sources-by-state/ Also read this. http://www.energyjustice.net/files/ejnow/2015-09.html
2021-06-06 Fuel Oil Adverse Health Effects
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil Disappointing statistics. << As well as commercial shipping, cruise ships also emit large amounts of air pollution, damaging people’s health. The ships of the single largest cruise company, Carnival Corporation, emit ten times more sulphur dioxide than all of Europe’s cars combined.[7] >>
