Sam Evans Electric Viking video tells us about the change China is making to solar and wind and away from coal and natural gas. Planned new coal power plants are being cancelled. CO2! Emissions and pollution are not rising, they are falling.
Posts Tagged ‘renewables’:
2025-05-08 California Shattered The Myth That Renewables Aren’t Reliable
For 98 of 116 days California met 100% of electric demand for 10 hours using only renewables. Solar is Winning! https://www.facebook.com/reel/1114042600561278/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-03-05 Solving Renewables Recycling In The US
Matt Ferrel describes how renewables – solar panels and wind turbine blades – and battery storage are being recycled.
2025-02-06 Orkney Islands Paving The Way For The Rest Of The World
Tom Scott tells us about how orkney Islands is far ahead of the rest of the world when it comes to renewables. Also they are generating and storing hydrogen. https://www.facebook.com/tomscott/videos/1579577666016228/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-12-21 Solar Finally Goes Exponential
Sam (the Electric Viking) tells us about a Renewables futurist and how China is installing renewables that are the equivalent of five nuclear power plants *a week*!! China has surpassed 1 Terawatt of solar capacity in 2024. Global installed solar capacity has hit two terawatts! It took 68 years to reach 1 Terawatt Solar capacity,
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2024-08-11 Solar Panels And Hazardous Waste
Most solar panels do not have lead or cadmium – they have to meet the ROHS – restriction on hazardous substances. If they do, the hazardous wastes are sealed inside. If panels are broken they are quickly replaced because the solar system is losing money as long as the panels are out of service. “”Based
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2024-05-29 Renewables Provided Almost 30% of US Electrical Generation In March
That’s great to see! There needs to be more BESS – battery energy storage systems – on the grid to replace all the gas turbine peaker plants that have to supply the grid when the sun sets. Once the grid gets 3 or more times the amount of renewables onto the grid and a lot
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2024-05-21 How Renewables Could Beat Natural Gas In US Generating Capacity Within 3 Years
Quote: “”Renewables are nearly 30% of utility scale generating capacity. The latest capacity additions have brought solar’s share of total available installed utility-scale (i.e., >1 MW) generating capacity up to 8.25%, surpassing that of hydropower (7.88%). Wind is currently at 11.77%. Solar and wind combined now account for more than a fifth (20.02%) of the US’s
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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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