China is installing renewables and battery storage at a record pace. Sam Electric Viking tells us all about it – 10.7 min. video. China has installed more solar this year than the rest of the world combined.
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2024-04-16 California 100% Renewables for 30 Days!
That’s great news! One thing I just remembered is that the nuclear power plants (Diablo Canyon, Palo Verde) usually shut down for maintenance in the spring when demand is lowest. Otherwise they normally run 24/7 and there wouldn’t be any time during the day when it would be 100% renewables. https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/
2024-04-05 Graphic Shows Renewables Percent Of Total Electric Generation 2000 to 2023
This is a very good graphic of the percent of total electricity renewables have grown to since 2000. Notice the bulging in April and September, and flattening during the summer. These are caused by the changes in demand during the hot weather. We need this to be 100% ASAP in order to prevent climate disaster!
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2024-02-15 India To Build 30 GW Solar And Wind Facility
30 Gigawatts! They say that that’s enough to power 18 million Indian homes. This will most likely be the biggest project in the world – for quite some time. It takes about 3 million solar panels per gigawatt, so if half the 30 GW is solar, that’s 45 million solar panels. The other 15GW would
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2023-12-27 Nuclear 3 To 5X More Expensive Than Renewables Plus Storage
Sam the Electric Viking’s 12.5 min. YouTube video explains SMR and other nuclear power have had massive cost overruns. The costs of solar and wind are still falling. The cost of solar or wind is about doubled when battery storage is added. But it is still 3 to 5 times less than the costs of
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2023-12-24 Electric Viking Tells Us About Tony Seba, RethinkX
Sam Electric Viking tells about Tony Seba and his predictions. A lot of changes are going to happen by 2030.
2023-12-08 Solar, Wind Myths Stall Fight Against Climate Change
Some of these Myths are ridiculous. More needs to be done to spread the truth at the local level. https://vitalsigns.edf.org/story/myths-about-solar-and-wind-could-stall-fight-against-climate-change?ub_tg=718&ub_tc=1&ub_o=26&ub_cta=4&ub_f=t&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=edf_vital-signs_pd_pmt&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_id=1701442776&aud=27
2023-08-17 EVs Support Power Grid Reliability And Reduce Costs
The problem with the idea of becoming more independent from the grid is something that the utilities will fight tooth and nail to prevent. They don’t want to lose customers and have them go off the grid. So they want to keep the customers as dependent as possible. Doing it the “cut the cord” way
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2022-06-19 FERC Proposes Interconnect Reforms
The FERC – federal Energy Regulatory Commission has thousands of solar and wind projects that want to interconnect to the grid. But many of them are in development phase. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/06/17/ferc-reveals-interconnection-reforms-that-could-unleash-solar-energy-potential/
2022-06-01 Solar V. Wind In Tropical Africa
There are 2 problems with solar in the tropic zone. One is that there are a lot of very green trees that block the sunlight year round, and would have to be cut down to make room for the solar panels. Solar panels could be located in areas where there are no trees. But there
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