Ten years ago today, the major earthquake hit off the coast of Japan, causing a tsunami that devastated Japan and caused the meltdown of three of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant’s reactors.
Archive for March, 2021:
2021-03-11 Tony Seba Et.Al. Discuss Decline Of Coal, Conventional Energy
Tony Seba & co-author talk about the decline of coal and conventional energy, the incorrect predictions of the EIA, and how much cheaper renewables plus storage are and will be. Quotes: << …the costs of solar, wind plus storage will fall by another 70% by 2030. What natural gas did to coal in the 2010s,
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2021-03-08 Billions And Billions of kWh and Money??
I went here to see what the EIA says about this BS and the figures he gave look totally fake. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vtvv&geo=g&sec=g&linechart=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.COW-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NG-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NUC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.HYC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.TSN-US-99.M&columnchart=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.COW-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NG-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.NUC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.HYC-US-99.M~ELEC.GEN.WND-US-99.M&map=ELEC.GEN.ALL-US-99.M&freq=M&start=200101&end=202012&chartindexed=0&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&rtype=s&pin=&rse=0&maptype=0 I got this from a comment in https://youtu.be/xYtMu9-d6kI << motofunk · 5 hours ago It’s a huge change coming. To replace the 6,630,136,986 kWh’s the US generates daily from fossil fuels we will need
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2021-03-09 Solar Is The Future – Elon Musk
Elon Musk talks about the power of sunlight and the size of a solar array that could power the US. He said that nuclear power plants have an exclusion zone of a square kilometer. If that was covered in solar panels, the solar array could put out more power than the nuclear power plant. He
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2021-03-08 Chernobyl Almost Killed Inna Braverman
This 10 min. YouTube video is about wave powered generators. But later they interview Inna Braverman who said she was born in Ukraine a few days before Chernobyl exploded and she almost died, but her mother resuscitated her. I hear the apologists for nuclear power constantly reiterate the claim that nuclear power is safe and
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2021-03-08 Plastic Waste Into Bricks – Nzambi Matee
This lady is turning plastic waste into paving bricks and later into building bricks. And they’re strong! The only thing I would be concerned about is if they are fireproof. But the paving blocks are used where fire is not a big problem. And it puts a growing environmental problem to good use, solving two
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2021-03-07 Micro Hydro Systems With No Dams
Comment from Just Have A Think #142 – 2021-03-07 I have to remind Dave that these microhydro systems do have downsides. The 24/7 requirement is getting more difficult because large hydro projects upstream can make the river highly variable, and rivers often slow to a trickle or dry up after the spring rains / snow
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2021-03-06 Half Of California Lives Below A Line Through San Fernando Valley
This is interesting. Half of California’s population lives below a line through San Fernando Valley. Which side of the line do you live on? https://www.californiasun.co/stories/the-curiously-lop-sided-population-of-california/
2021-03-06 SK Stole LG’s Battery Secrets – USITC
The US Trade Commission has said that SK has misappropriated 22 of LG’s battery secrets. The US will ban SK from importing for ten years. LG wanted to negotiate a settlement but SK is begging Pres. Biden to veto the decision. This is interesting because there is high demand for batteries for EVs and it’s
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2021-03-05 Tesla Daily: Tesla Value 1.3 T Or More By 2030
Today I watched Rob Maurer’s Tesla Daily and he went through a spreadsheet of extremely conservative figures. He assumed a 25% growth rate up to 2030, which is half of the 50% that Tesla plans. And the car business, using conservative figures, came to a figure of approximately $670 Billion valuation. The FSD software, assuming
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