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2023-07-04 Western Australia Battery Storage To Replace Coal Power Station
Western Australia is going to shut down its cold fire power plant in a few years. They’re building several battery energy storage systems to soak up solar energy from rooftop solar systems during the daytime. Western Australia is unique in that their grid is independent from the rest of Australia. What I think is so
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2023-07-04 The End Of Haber-Bosch – Its Replacement
New research has enabled fixating nitrogen easier than by the Haber-Bosch process. About half the world’s food supply depends on the fertilizer made by the Haber-Bosch process. It is imperative that we end the use of fossil fuels in the Haber-Bosch process because its end product is CO2 greenhouse gas. It must be replaced by
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2023-07-04 “Operation Coconut” Special Investigor Jack Smith
Attorney Michael Popok describes this Operation Coconut where special investigator Jack Smith gets Trump’s attorney – client privileges stripped from John Eastman, Giuliani and other attorneys who may have had to do with the fake electors scheme that Eastman cooked up. The attorney – client privilege doesn’t apply when the attorney is doing something illegal.
2023-07-03 FERC Proposes Overhaul Of Interconnection Procedures
FERC Proposes overhaul of interconnection procedures Article about FERC changes to clear the backlog of thousands of interconnection requests that are holding up renewables projects from connecting to the grid. Fees and penalties of tens of thousands of dollars. RTOs have already done some of this. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ferc-proposes-overhaul-interconnection-procedures?amp
2023-07-02 Tesla 2nd Quarter Deliveries etc.
What bothers me is that the analyst pundits completely ignore a major part of Tesla’s business: the battery energy storage segment. Elon said that the energy business may outgrow the automotive business, and it is growing rapidly. But it’s treated as if it doesn’t exist! See following article. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/02/tesla-tsla-q2-2023-vehicle-delivery-and-production-numbers.html
2023-06-29 Racial Quotas In Education Admissions
I thought about this in the past, and it made sense to me that when there are inequalities in a system affecting human rights, the system should be able to make modifications to reduce the inequalities. For instance, if the percentage of a race is over- or underrepresented in the higher education system, then it’s
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2023-06-29 Less Than 99% Grid Availability: Utilities Must Change To Residential BESSes
This is my comment to this article. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/28/solar-will-reach-dominance-as-cheapest-source-of-electricity-in-world-dnv/ What the utilities failed to consider is the extremes in the variability of renewables. The utilities are unwilling to build a sizeable reserve into the system. They refuse to overbuild by a factor of 3 to 6 times, so that the valleys in the supply will be
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2023-06-27 SCOTUS Moore v Harper Elections Decision
SCOTUS voted 6-3 to reject the “independent state legislature” theory that argued state legislatures can set election rules with little oversight from state courts. Apparently the “legal theory” that the appelants wanted was so extreme that even 3 conservative justices including Roberts voted against it. Quote from Vox article: “”Moore involved the awkwardly named “independent
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2023-06-24 Tesla Cyber Rodeo, 9000 Ton Gigapress, Etc.
This is a short tour of the gigafactory Texas during the Cyber Rodeo public event, 15 thousand visitors. Shows robotic arms on the assembly lines. QR codes in a stripe on the floor to guide the autonomous transporters. A few seconds of Arc Attack’s presentation. Very up close shots of the 9000 long tonne Gigapress.
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