Veritasium video on YouTube.
2021-11-30 Elec Transmission Lines Needed Urgently – Oliver
This article emphasizes that electric transmission lines are needed to connect US consumers to zero emission electricity. Adult comedian John Oliver gives us the whole story.
https://www.power-grid.com/td/transmission-to-connect-us-consumers-to-zero-emission-electricity/
2021-11-29 Water Pipe From Eastern To Western US
https://ktla.com/news/california/why-cant-we-just-move-water-to-solve-a-drought/amp/
This article is about building an aqueduct from the Eastern to the Western US where the drought is very bad. The experts say it’s impractical and would cost too much – a trillion dollars or more.
An alternative would be to build desalination plants along the coast and pipe the pure water inland to water the crops. I also thought that it would be good to get rid of coal power plants and instead use the railroads to transport water instead of coal.
Quote from article:
<< “You have to ask the question, what would that be supporting?” adds Hall. “If you look at Southern California, half our water is being used to keep plants on life support that wouldn’t grow here naturally. You’re proposing something that not only is environmentally destructive … but it’s supporting really bad environmental practices locally.” >>
I don’t understand what this is saying, and it’s not what I’ve read. The water in California is used mostly for agriculture – something like 80% or more. This food that we grow is keeping *us* on life support! And by us, I mean somewhere around 40% of the produce that the whole US eats. We cannot eliminate food!
We can conserve a lot of water by stopping eating meat. 43% of the land in the US is used for growing livestock or growing food for livestock. That’s where we should conserve. It takes something like 1600 gallons of water to grow a pound of beef.
2021-11-28 Battery Plant Construction At Giga Texas
From reply on FB group TSLA…
Lee Davies
The building where the cathode materials will be made is nothing but a field with the steel beams in piles waiting to be built into the cathode plant. It will take a year to build it and get it up and running. The building behind Joe is the battery factory. The windows haven’t yet been installed and they’re still installing equipment inside.
It has taken more than a year to get the yield of 4680 cells up from 30% to 70% so nearly one third of the cells still fail testing at the Kato Rd. Plant in Fremont. They still have a way to go to get the processes to the point where the rejects are not causing a lot of excess expense and losses. They can’t produce 4680 cells while losing so much money. So it looks like they will keep on making upgrades to the Kato Rd. Plant until they’re satisfied the “machines that make the batteries” are good enough for duplication and then they’ll make them for both Giga Berlin and Texas.
The process they will be using is no longer the “wet process” and this new way of making the cells is still in development. If you’re interested, you should watch the Battery Day video from last year.
2021-11-28 Challenges Of Green Hydrogen Economy
The challenges in pursuit of a green hydrogen economy.
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydrogen/the-challenges-in-pursuit-of-a-green-hydrogen-economy/
2021-11-27 Electrostatic Machines Website
This website has a huge amount of electrostatic machine projects. Wimshurst, electrophorus, Van De Graaf, and much more.
2021-11-27 Hypertensives Taking Rx’s That Increase B.P.
Many people with hypertension are taking drugs that increase their blood pressure. Antidepressants are one drug.
2021-11-26 Coop Dumps Monopoly For Solar
Kit Carson coop dumped the Tri-State G&T in order to go full daytime solar. Tri-State’s onerous contract requires a withdrawal penalty fee, but the solar will still be cheaper.
2021-11-26 New 600MW Solar + Battery In Texas
A new billion dollar 600 MW solar + 400 MW, 800 MWh battery storage plant will be built near Uhland, TX in 2022. This is just down the road from Giga Texas.
2021-11-25 Solar $4 Trillion By 2050 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg projects that by 2050 the Solar industry will be a $4 Trillion market.
