This is a horror story. This Frontline episode first aired 2017 Oct 11.
<< Make the regulated the regulators >>
AKA Foxes in charge of the chicken coop.
Thank God we got rid of Trump and Scott Pruitt and the EPA can now get back to doing what it’s supposed to be doing.
Sodium Ion Batteries are very similar to lithium ion batteries, but sodium is much cheaper.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/sodium-ion-battery
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Clark Richards
Alex claims with ZERO supporting evidence, “Wind and solar are a joke. In no way, shape or form can those things replace fossil fuels now or in the immediate future!”
That is utter nonsense!
“Analysis indicates that a network of land based 2.5-megawatt (MW) turbines restricted to nonforested, ice-free, nonurban areas operating at as little as 20% of their rated capacity…in the contiguous United States, specifically in the central plain states, could accommodate as much as 16 times total current demand for electricity in the United States.”
According to the US Department of Energy, the USA also has a recoverable offshore technical wind resource potential of more than 2,000 GW of capacity, or 7,200 TWh of generation per year. For context, this is nearly double the nation’s current electricity use.
That means that by developing those wind resources and mandating solar panels be put on every home, small business, and factory that is practical, along with strategically located PVC-solar and solar molten salt steam-generating industrial scale electric plants (and backup battery banks with their own backup diesel generators fueled by vegetable and seed oils produced by American farmers) linked to further back-ups consisting of geothermal, wave, and tidal sources to help cover base load and peak demand, all controlled by a new nationwide Smart Grid to send power where it is needed most, quickly and efficiently, we have the potential to generate UP TO TWENTY TIMES our nation’s current electrical consumption, without intermittency.
https://interestingengineering.com/lithium-from-seawater
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10933
https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/computing america-s-offshore-wind-energy potential
https://www.freeingenergy.com/how-much-solar-would-it-take-to-power-the-u
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https://interestingengineering.com/lithium-from-seawater
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10933
https://www. energy.gov/eere/articles/computing-america-s-offshore-wind-energy-potential
https://www.freeingenergy.com/how much-solar-would-it-take-to-power-the-u-s/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201124-how-geothermal-lithium-could-revolutionise-green-energy
Watch this 4 minute video. Here is some CCP propaganda patting a worker on the back for doing a dangerous job. 660 kV lines in a bundle of six(!) Handling 1/10 of the power of the whole province of Shandong, which has 100 million population. The insulators are huge! Look at those arcs jumping to his gloves! They’re using drones to inspect the wires. Apparently the UHV doesn’t zap the drones.
Article about the ‘dark side of solar.’ More recycling of solar and wind needs to be done to prevent the panels from ending up in landfills. (Harvard Business Review)
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It’s difficult to understand how these Trumplicans can break federal laws then claim the federal government is taking away their state rights. The Voting Rights Act was put in place to prevent the kinds of abuses that states were doing in the 1960s. This VRA has has broad bipartisan support for many decades and was holding the states in check until the SCOTUS struck down part of it in Shelby County v. Holder. Now the Trumplicans are accusing the feds of “weaponizing” the laws.
Quote:
<< Kemp issued a statement following Garland’s announcement accusing the Biden Administration of “weaponizing” the Justice Department “to carry out their far-left agenda that undermines election integrity and empowers federal government overreach in our democracy.”
“This lawsuit is born out of the lies and misinformation the Biden administration has pushed against Georgia’s Election Integrity Act from the start,” Kemp said. >>
That’s lunacy.
California deserves a pat on the back!
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-14/california-defies-doom-with-no-1-u-s-economy
Quotes:
<< California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy
The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.
By Matthew A. Winkler
June 14, 2021, 2:00 AM PDT >>
<< The most trusted measure of economic strength says California is the world-beater among democracies. The state’s gross domestic product increased 21% during the past five years, dwarfing No. 2 New York (14%) and No. 3 Texas (12%), according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The gains added $530 billion to the Golden State, 30% more than the increase for New York and Texas combined and equivalent to the entire economy of Sweden. Among the five largest economies, California outperforms the U.S., Japan and Germany with a growth rate exceeded only by China. >>
<< Corporate California also is the undisputed leader in renewable energy, with 26 companies worth $897 billion, or 36% of the U.S. industry, having reported 10% or more of their revenues derived from clean technology. No state comes close to matching the 21% of electricity derived from solar energy. Shares of these firms appreciated 282% during the past 12 months and 1,003%, 1,140% and 9,330% over two, five and 10 years, respectively, with no comparable rivals anywhere in the world… >>
<< Much has been made of the state reporting its first yearly loss in population, or 182,000 last year. Had it not been for the Trump administration preventing new visas, depriving as many as 150,000 people from moving to California from other countries annually, the 2020 outcome would have been more favorable.
<< Even so, Republicans, opposed to Newsom’s policies favoring immigration, criminal justice reform and greater benefits for housing, health and child care, want voters to decide whether he should be replaced in a potential recall election later this year. Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, a Republican who is among those running to succeed him, said Newsom, a Democrat, hurt the state’s small businesses.
That’s not what the data shows. The 373 California-based companies in the Russell 2000 Index, which includes small-cap companies across the U.S., appreciated 39% the past two years and 85% since 2016, beating the benchmark’s 34% and 67%, respectively. The same California companies reported revenue growth of 56% the past five years, dwarfing the benchmark’s 34%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. More important, California companies invested 16% of their revenues in R&D, or their future, when the rest of the U.S. put aside just 1%.
Investing in the future is California’s way, the opposite of doom. >>
The Manhattan District Attorney said it intends to file criminal charges against the Trump Organization in a week or so. This is finally going to happen after all this time – over 2 years. Shame on Trump!
After air, water is the most important thing for life. And Some areas in California are running out of water. A good article that explains why it doesn’t affect everywhere.
https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/06/california-water-shortage/
This French company uses glass fiber reinforced flywheels for energy storage instead of steel. Quote:
<< Gennesseaux went on to say. “We are around 10 grams of CO2 per kWh, while lithium-ion batteries are around 40g CO2/kWh, at the same level as steel flywheels.”>>
Initially the flywheel will store 10 kWh. It’s buried underground. Steel flywheels cost about 200 Euros per kWh – concrete is less expensive – a few Euros – and uses common raw materials.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/06/21/concrete-flywheel-storage-system-for-residential-pv/
