This is not good. More electricity than a city. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/27/bitcoin-mining-electricity-use-environmental-impact
Archive for March, 2021:
2021-03-04 Renewables Plus Storage Replacing Gas Power Plants
From comments Gene Piwko Jr Said, “I just think folks aren’t educating themselves on these things [wind, solar, battery storage].” It looks like this applies to you more than anyone else. You claim that solar is not that reliable. That may have been true ten years ago but today renewables plus storage is replacing fossil
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2021-03-03 $14T To Decarbonize Grid
It will cost $14 trillion to fully decarbonize the grid. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/the-grid-needs-14t-to-support-full-decarbonization/
2021-03-03 Red & Blue States Most & Least Dependent On Federal $$
The red states are more dependent and the blue states are less dependent according to this study. They give their methodology on how they came up with the figures. Other studies have come to a different conclusion, but I don’t see them saying how they came to their conclusion. Just don’t trust the ones who
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2021-03-02 LCOE Renewables Lower Than Other Power
Levelized cost of wind and solar dropping below gas and conventional by 2026. https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/eia-levelized-cost-of-onshore-wind-solar-pv-dropping-below-gas-fired-and-conventional-generation-by-2026/
2021-03-02 Electric Ships – Barges
These are container barges in The Netherlands. They’re putting the batteries in containers – that makes sense. https://www.sci-nature.vip/2019/10/large-tesla-ships-all-electric.html?m=1 Update Mar 4 – I saw a short video on TV, might’ve been DW News, about fishermen in an African country using a small electric outboard motor powered by a couple batteries that were charged by solar.
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2021-03-02 Republicans Put “At A Competitive Disadvantage”!!
I was watching the PBS Newshour this evening and they showed parts of the Supreme Court’s telephone hearing with the lawyers for the appellants in this suit about voting rights in Arizona. My jaw dropped to the ground when the Republican’s lawyer replied to Coney Barrett’s question. He said, “Because it puts Republicans at a
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2021-03-02 Space Shuttle Was Not Analog
From comment Others are saying that this is analog. But even before the Shuttles the Apollo used a digital computer for guidance. I’m sure that in the years after the Apollos, they had even more digital equipment. And the analog days of the early 60s and before were mostly gone by this time. The major
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2021-03-02 Service Providers Have 100 Mb/s Or More??
From my comment All you subscribers who think you’re getting over 100 Mb/s on your service — all are getting fooled. You may be getting more than 100 Mb from your home to the nearest concentration point. But as soon as your bitstream has to compete with many others then you can’t get your full
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2021-03-01 Nowhere Near Keeping Below The 1.5 Degree C Goal
UN FCCC report says. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269432-we-are-nowhere-near-keeping-warming-below-1-5c-despite-climate-plans/
