Constellation Energy shut down TMI nuclear power plant in 2019. They will restart it subject to approval just to sell the power to Microsoft to power their data centers. Short video https://www.facebook.com/reel/1941868322890930?mibextid=9drbnH Better https://www.facebook.com/reel/3456129351197734?mibextid=9drbnH
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2024-09-01 Wind Turbines “Challenges” Make Them Look Bad
This short video makes wind turbines look like they’re catching fire or destroying themselves. It’s not a fair representation. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1491510351491684?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-08-13 Debunking Myths: “10 Reasons All Electric Is A Bad Idea”
Each point of the link is debunked. Top 10 Reasons All-Electric Is a Bad Idea #1.) “”Electric systems are awfully wasteful.”” This assumes that all electrical power is generated by thermal power plants. Yes, 2/3 of the energy used to heat the steam goes to waste and only one third gets to produce electricity. But
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2024-07-30 China Has Installed More Solar Power Capacity Than The Rest Of The World Combined
https://youtu.be/yfzYK4NJHHU?si=gP95z8Dk7mhDw99P A more detailed article about China’s and other countries’ PV:https://internationalbanker.com/finance/china-continues-expanding-its-global-dominance-in-solar-power/ “”China has installed more solar power capacity than the rest of the world combined, both last year and this year… In fact, it has installed more than 600 gigawatts since November 2023.””Sam said at time 3:25 in this YouTube video (later he said according
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2024-05-29 Renewables Provided Almost 30% of US Electrical Generation In March
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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2024-05-28 US Offshore Wind: Is It Dead In The Water?
The US has a huge amount of land with a very good supply of wind, and this has been developed with a large amount of WTs – wind turbines. Iowa has a lot of WTs, but Texas is the WT leader by far, with over 30 Gigawatts of installed WTs. Installing WTs is relatively easy
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2024-05-21 How Renewables Could Beat Natural Gas In US Generating Capacity Within 3 Years
Quote: “”Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity. The latest capacity additions have brought solar’s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., >1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s
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2024-04-10 IOUs, Going Off Grid
The transmission pylons are a few million dollars a mile, and the undersea cables are even more expensive. And the undersea cables are more difficult to maintain, as is anything in a marine environment. So the cheap SOBs in the utilities typically choose the lower cost towers. As for the US West Coast, rooftop solar
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2024-03-22 Ocean Kite Generates Electric Power
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
2024-02-15 India To Build 30 GW Solar And Wind Facility
30 Gigawatts! They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes. This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time. It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels. The other 15GW would
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