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. California exceeds 100% of energy
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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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Well, Elon never said it was a plan. He just calculated that there are about 750 watts per square meter at the latitude of the middle of the US. The solar panels are about 20% efficient. So 1/5 of 750 is 150. The US needs about 1300 gigawatts of power. So divide that by 150
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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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Badger Hollow Solar is 3500 acres, 830,000 bifacials on trackers and 300 MW, built in two phases. The second phase just came online. Wisconsin is expected to add 3.78 GW solar over the next 5 years. Wisconsin’s largest solar farm is now fully online
Elon Musk talks about generating enough power from a solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles, plus batteries to power during darkness.
Quote: “”Dispatchable Renewables are the future.”” Scatec’s 540MW PV + 1,140MWh Battery Storage Project In South Africa Begins Supplying Electricity To National Grid
I like getting in a car that’s not roasting hot. One thing the companies and organizations are doing is installing solar canopies in parking lots. It’s what Tesla did in the lot over the row of superchargers at Gigafactory Texas. And those canopies give cars shade. There are millions of acres / ares of parking
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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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Sam Electric Viking tells about Tony Seba and his predictions. A lot of changes are going to happen by 2030.
