“”BREAKING: A water expert breaks the stunning news about “America’s deadliest ticking time bomb” with a must-read thread on the staggering collapse of the Colorado River. This should be one of the biggest stories in the country right now…”” The Colorado is just the tip of the iceberg. Other rivers will have the same problem
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The US is down low on the list. One reason is because the US has 96 nuclear power plants that generate about 20% of the total power. But new wind and solar are being built in many states so the US will be higher in the list as years pass. Here is the source of
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This was from JHAT 2024 Dec 8 https://iea-pvps.org/trends_reports/trends-in-pv-applications-2024/
That’s great to see! There needs to be more BESS – battery energy storage systems – on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets. Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot
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That’s great news! One thing I just remembered is that the nuclear power plants (Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde) usually shut down for maintenance in the spring when demand is lowest. Otherwise they normally run 24/7 and there wouldn’t be any time during the day when it would be 100% renewables. https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
The ocean kite travels in a figure 8 and its turbine and generator send power to shore. This YouTube short briefly shows its action. https://youtube.com/shorts/WKsiSGvDTiw?si=P7Ro-rjQTcE-QKdj
This technical report from NREL dated 2003 discusses the water consumed by thermoelectric power plants. It’s a .PDF available online from the US government.
She talks about an e-methanol plant in N. Sweden. 12.5 min. video on Ted.com. “https://embed.ted.com/talks/lang/en/olivia_breese_the_molecular_love_story_that_could_help_power_the_world”
