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/
Archive for the ‘generation’ Category:
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
2021-06-04 China Will Have To Shut Down Coal Power Plants
Everyone complains that China is the worst polluter and CO2 source. But things will change. From comment in FB group renewable energy China has a lot more solar than any other country, and produces a lot more renewable energy. If the conventional thermal power plants, which require constant refueling, can’t compete with the solar and
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2021-06-01 MicroHydro power from Water Mains
There is a lot of power being wasted by pressure reducers in water mains. In this YouTube video Matt Ferrell looks at microhydro- and picohydropower turbine-generators that are powered by the drops caused by pressure reducers in water systems. These are capable of generating hundreds to tens of thousands of watts and recover energy that
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2021-05-25 Solar, Wind + Batteries Are The Cheapest
This YouTube video from Tony Seba of RethinkX shows the incredible cost reductions that have been and will be made to the cost of solar, wind plus battery storage. “SWB100” is his acronym for 100% solar, wind plus battery storage. Seba states that SWB100 will be so low, per kWh, that it costs less than
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2021-05-19 Renewables Plus Storage Are Outcompeting Conventional Power
From YouTube replies @Aleksandrs Naumovs I forgot to mention PPAs. The utilities are entering into power purchase agreements with solar and wind contractors for per kWh rates that are lower than conventional thermal power plants. These often include short term 4 to 8 hour storage. Any new generation has to compete against renewables plus storage
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2021-05-07 LAVO 30 Year Hydrogen Fuel Cell System
This short story gives the price of a Lavo green hydrogen fuel cell system as AU$35,000, I’m assuming it’s Australian dollars. It says the system is good for 30 years. https://amp.9news.com.au/article/4cb3ebca-0515-419a-b298-ee491bbccb2f Here is JHAT channel’s video about it. Skip first 2 mins. https://youtu.be/0_bTjcjqN6c A comment in the above video said this (quote): << owmid 6rgy.
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2021-05-06 Coal Fast Losing To Wind And Solar
Article says the coal miners are finally admitting there needs to be change. Coal power plants are uneconomical and must be retired. https://electrek.co/2021/05/06/coal-is-losing-the-price-war-to-wind-and-solar-faster-than-anticipated/
2021-04-24 LADWP’s Plans For Intermountain (Coal) Power Plant
This is a .PDF document from the CPUC about LADWP’s future plans for converting the IPP coal fired power plant in Utah to a solar and wind generating facility, a green hydrogen generation and underground storage site, replacing the coal plant with CCGTs – combined cycle gas turbine generators that will run on hydrogen, and
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