Posts Tagged ‘Australia’:

2023-08-21 Australian Mines Demand Increasing, Lithium, Copper

Australian needs to stop exporting coal and fossil fuels and start ramping up their mines to meet the demands for lithium, copper, manganese, etc. Australian Mining — Can It Power All The New EVs?

2022-05-18 Australia Generating Too Much Solar Power

Australia’s looming solar cliff https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2022/05/14/weekend-read-australias-looming-solar-cliff/

2022-04-28 Ginormous 20 GW Solar + Storage Project in NT, Australia

Sun Cable plans to build 17 to 20 gigawatt plus battery storage in Australia to power Singapore through undersea cable. $30 billion (Aus). To show how Ginormous this project is, divide 20 billion watts by 1000 watts, then multiply by 2.5 (400 watts per panel). So 20 million times 2.5 is FIFTY MILLION solar panels!!

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2022-01-20 Pumped Hydro For Long Energy Storage

They say the problem with battery energy storage is that they say it’s not long-term; for renewables we need long-term energy storage. Pumped hydro has been used for a hundred years. Nothing high tech or no scalability issues. Just dig two lakes, one above the other, with pumps and generators between them. The costs may

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2021-12-31 What Would Australia Look Like Powered By 100% Renewable Energy?

The US would be much the same. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/28/what-would-australia-look-like-powered-by-100-renewable-energy

2021-06-21 Australia Supplying Lithium And Nickel

Said, “Each EV has about 5000 dollars (Au?) In it.” Well, the battery pack is about a hundred dollars US per kWh or about $7500.00 per vehicle. It’s hard to believe that the raw material costs make up well over half of the cost of an EV battery pack. Then he said Denholm noted that

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2021-06-15 Future Hydrogen in Europe and Australia

The rest of the world is planning on building hydrogen generation infrastructure for replacing fossil fuels. This is an interesting article about plans in Europe and Australia. https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/07/the-hydrogen-stream-more-hydrogen-for-the-ports-of-rotterdam-and-antwerp/

2021-04-20 Renewables Statistics For World And Australia

Interesting renewables deployment statistics for world, per person per year. https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-and-wind-are-leading-the-fastest-energy-transition-the-world-has-seen/

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2021-02-19 Facebook Is A Global Mafia

It seems that Facebutt is getting into trouble with the Aussies. Jacob Silverman Facebook Is a Global Mafia

2020-08-17 World Needs Nuclear Power; Peaker Plants

From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/08/16/why-the-world-needs-more-nuclear-power/amp/ The point is that the Asia Pacific region is growing and renewables may not be able meet their need for more electric power. They may have to choose between building fossil fueled and nuclear power plants. Building fossil fueled plants is increasing their greenhouse gas emissions, so they have nuclear power as their

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