The VPP virtual power plant?
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/09/09/as-historic-heatwaves-cook-california-tesla-activates-its-distributed-army-to-save-the-grid/
2020-09-09 Tesla Powerwall
2020-09-09 City Sues 24 Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Change
Charleston sues 24 fossil fuel companies for causing climate change.
2020-09-09 Fuel Cell Vehicles & Stations In California
As of 2020-09-01. Has a link to California ARB.
2020-09-08 Nikola GM Partnership; Hydrogen
From my comments.
From what I’ve seen, Nikola is really trying to get rolling with heavy trucks with hydrogen. That’s where Milton doesn’t have to compete with Tesla. The badger pickup with batteries is kind of a hard sell because it will be competing with Tesla, and that’s nearly an impossibility without some biggie like GM behind it.
Besides, how in the hell is a company with no real products going to spread themselves so thin by having so many irons in the fire? Nikola is into the Badger BEV pickup, the Nikola heavy truck with Iveco and the building of hydrogen refueling stations around the interstates. That’s just too much, IMO. They said the Badger will be 2022. Disclosure: I have an interest in NKLA.
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WHY HYDROGEN
Apparently people don’t understand that the transportation world has to move to a green fuel, and hydrogen is the most logical solution. The heavy trucks have to be able to refuel or recharge in a few minutes, not hours as it now is with batteries. California already has 45 hydrogen fueling stations with more on the way. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are being sold by Toyota and Hyundai, probably others too in the next few years. Hydrogen is readily available but it’s not green hydrogen. But if many vehicles are already on the road when the green hydrogen starts becoming available, half of the problem will be already solved. All that will be needed is a push to construct hydrogen generating plants that use green electricity, then there will no longer be a need for hydrogen made from fossil fuels. The other transportation such as airplanes, trains and ships will be able to convert to hydrogen.
Some countries have committed to banning sales of new fossil fuel powered vehicles by 2035. This has to be a priority for the Earth.
This article says:
“One kg of hydrogen is equal to 3.3 liters of diesel fuel.”
“[The efficiency] of fuel cell vehicles is around one quarter higher than for vehicles with combustion engines.”
https://fuelcellsworks.com/news/bosch-the-mobility-of-the-future-needs-fuel-cells-2/
2020-09-07 Michael Faraday Image
Like it says, if it weren’t for his discoveries, you wouldn’t be reading this now.
2020-09-06 Tesla Alien Dreadnought Giga Shanghai
Some time lapse videos of the Gigafactory Shanghai, Tesla EVs coming off the production line like crazy! Just turn off the sound – he’s not saying anything new and he’s hard to understand. Watch those robot arms go like crazy!
2020-09-05 Capacitive Dropper Failures In 240 VAC countries
From a comment I left in Big Clive’s youtube video https://youtu.be/jgaCYRc1-og
In the past I’ve seen Clive having to replace “used up” capacitors in the ‘capacitive dropper’ circuits of low cost line operated devices. The problem seems to be common in other countries but here in the US I haven’t seen any problems with the capacitors. I think that the 120VAC is so much less than the 275VAC maximum rating of the capacitors that the overvoltages almost never exceed the capacitors’ maximum and there are seldom if ever any damage done to the capacitors. In the case where the AC line voltage is nearly 275VAC, like in the UK, there are times when the capacitors maximum is exceeded and the capacitor experiences a punch through of the insulation. But this causes the capacitor to isolate the damage and the capacitance drops by a small amount. Eventually the capacitor loses so much of its capacitance that it can no longer pass enough current to do its job.
I guess the best solution is to put two capacitors in series, each with twice the value. The overvoltages will be half the total on each capacitor and hopefully the insulation will not be damaged, and no loss of capacitance will occur.
2020-09-05 Tesla Sensors&Self Driving; Truth About Nikola
This YouTube video is about self driving but it shows and tells how the sensors do their jobs. LIDAR is too expensive.
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This YouTube video is about Nikola and its business model and about costs of hydrogen vs. batteries. Good.
2020-09-05 Ammonia To Hydrogen For Fuel
This 2017 article is on a website dedicated to ammonia as a the mechanism for transporting hydrogen to be used as fuel. There is a large amount of hydrogen made into ammonia for fertilizer, so it’s an established industry. But this uses methane AKA natural gas as the source for the hydrogen, so it is “gray hydrogen” that creates CO2. This must be changed to hydrogen that does not create CO2, and the resulting ammonia will also be GHG free.
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This 2018 article is about the Australians demonstrating an ammonia to hydrogen converter.
https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/csiro-demonstrates-ammonia-to-hydrogen-fueling-system/
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This Japanese system needs no expensive material for the catalyst.
https://www.ammoniaenergy.org/articles/new-technology-for-generating-hydrogen-from-ammonia/
