The floating solar farms are 12.5% more efficient than solar on land because the solar panels are kept cooler. The water is also kept cooler. https://youtu.be/D6VvZCEGJ9w
Archive for November, 2021:
2021-11-09 Treat Beef Like Coal To Reduce GHGs
This article is behind a paywall. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions
2021-11-09 Wind Turbine With Storage – BEST
In this video he talks about using BEST – buoyancy energy storage technology – for storage – the buoyancy of a container in a body of water. This is sort of the opposite of the pumped hydro storage. A 12 minute video. https://youtu.be/EoBPayAyCu0 What I propose is to use a similar system as a part
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2021-11-09 Felling Burned Out Wind Turbine
Controlled Demolition fells a ‘thermally damaged’ 2.4 MW wind turbine in Texas. Video is 2.5 minutes April 2021. Texas has 30 plus gigawatts of wind turbines. https://youtu.be/N3lxm-l5SSY
2021-11-07 Wood Gasifier Runs Generator
This 17 minute video shows a homemade wood gasifier that puts out enough gas to run a small generator. This is his second version with some improvements. The gasifier can use wood chips, sawdust, leaves, paper, etc., but he is using wood pellets which are already dry. The gasifier produces syngas when wood is pyrolyzed
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2021-11-07 Climate Change Deniers False Narratives
Michael Peck Gregory Stanley how climate deniers “use numbers to deceive.” This commenter would have us believe that manmade CO2 in the atmosphere is insignificant. Of course this is a absurd statement. He’s basically telling us that all the climate scientists at our national laboratories, at our research institutions, and that our private institutes, along
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2021-11-06 Lithium Sulfur Battery Startup Lyten
The cells will have 900 Wh/kg, more than double the li-Ion cells. Cells were tested for 1400 charge/discharge cycles. Lyten is on San Jose, CA and has been making batteries for the government, military. https://youtu.be/9LfaIppP1Us
2021-11-05 Solar Panel Life Cycle Assessment
This 8 minute DW video talks about solar panel life cycle assessment. https://youtu.be/EWV4e453y8Y In the E.U. Recycling is compulsory. New processes to recycle panels.
2021-11-05 High Gas Prices Blamed On OPEC, Russia
Higher gasoline prices blamed on OPEC & Russia. The higher gas prices are incentives for drivers to change to EVs. Instead of hundreds more, they could be saving hundreds in fuel costs. https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/nov/04/why-are-oil-prices-so-high-and-what-can-be-done-ab/ << “Higher prices at the pump matter,” Finley said. By his calculations, he said, just this year’s increases are costing each American
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2021-11-04 Rising Sea Threatens Tribal Lands
On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington Rising ocean waters threaten tribal lands 3 min video. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rising-ocean-waters-threaten-tribal-lands/
