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/
Archive for the ‘fossil fuels’ Category:
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/
2022-01-08 Global Primary Energy Consumption By Source
This is an animated graphic of global primary energy consumption by source. Interesting. https://www.facebook.com/TheInfographicsShow/videos/256670979610323/
2021-12-29 Hydrogen Fuel Cell EVs Predictions
From a reply in FB group TSLA… Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be very common once the electric grids are powered predominantly by renewables. The price of hydrogen will conform to Wright’s Law and be so cheap that it will be competitive with BEVs. And due to the electric grid powering what is now still
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2021-12-24 Renewables Vs Fossil Fuels: VALCOE
Engineering with Rosie dives into the VALCOE – value adjusted levelized cost of energy. This is adjusted for time of use – most solar is available only during daylight hours. https://youtu.be/6_BGHy4sfMs She uses a car race analogy to compare the solar, onshore wind, coal and gas. Solar and wind win the race. One thing I
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2021-12-03 Fossil Fuel Company Subsidies
There is a growing body of citizens who want the US government to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. But the government really could use the subsidies to the advantage of clean energy. Instead of ending subsidies, which would end up costing more for consumers, we should require Big Oil and fossil fuels to invest
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2021-11-22 Wastewater Pollution Closing Coal Power Plants
It’s a shame that air pollution isn’t the reason why these coal fired power plants have to clean up or shut down. It’s the polluted water they’re putting into the environment. But at least something is being done to get rid of the worst problems for climate change and the environment. Article also said, <<
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2021-11-21 CCS Should’ve Been Wind & Solar
CT article says the CCS – carbon capture and storage – would have been better spent on solar and wind. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/21/carbon-captures-global-investment-would-have-been-better-spent-on-wind-solar/ Most of the CCS CO2 is being pumped back into the ground to do EOR – enhanced oil recovery. So the CCS is actually causing more fossil fuels to be recovered and burned and
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2021-11-17 Popping Fossil Fuel Industry’s Hydrogen Hype Bubble
The absurdity is overwhelming. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydrogen/the-hydrogen-hype-bubble-may-have-finally-popped/ Quote: << Of course, green hydrogen’s current lack of availability isn’t the only reason it’s not the wonder-fuel the fossil fuel industry has been making it out to be, considering the following: … >> How can its “lack of availability” prevent it from being a wonder fuel? The problem today
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2021-11-11 Hydrogen Major Drawbacks, Propaganda
This article tells about many drawbacks of hydrogen: gray, blue and green hydrogen. They claim that << Combusting green hydrogen in power plants jeopardizes public health and delays climate action >> because it produce nitrogen oxides. But so do burning fossil fuels. They bring up that steel pipes are made brittle by hydrogen at high
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