On the potential for green H2 cost reductions through experience:
"electrolyzers account for only around one third of the cost of green hydrogen. The rest is driven either by the cost of green electricity – already far down its own experience curve – or by the cost of heavy engineering components – stuff like compressors, tanks, valves, pipes, power supplies and site infrastructure, which are not about to fall off a cliff."
Look, I totally get it. Israel, tariffs, student loans, or his age might make you angry at Joe Biden.
All I'm suggesting is that unless you think he's doing whatever makes you angry is because he's doing only because he's evil than it's worth the effort to assume that for some reason(s) you may not understand forced him to make an unpopular decision because attacking him only helps the political party that seems at this point to actually be supporting evil imo anyways. #VoteBlue#VoteClimate
Let's take the Section 301 tariffs that impact our #EnergyTransition as an example. Joe Biden was able to get transformative legislation passed in a large part because he tied it together with helping to bring back American manufacturing jobs for compassionate as well as national security reasons.
Whether the cost to Americans from these tariffs greater than their benefit is a hard test to definitively answer so I wonder why so many people seem to know the answer better than Biden's experts?
Using AI to oversee dynamic fusion machines is a hot area of research. It doesn't mean generative AI like ChatGPT. It's old-school AI, where you train a machine to recognize patterns in complex real-world data then let it make decisions.
If you need a dose of nerdy optimism about what the grid could look like if we do the #EnergyTransition well, this Volts pod with Lorenzo Kristov was really great.
It also highlights a widespread deficiency in many capacity expansion models: they don’t typically accommodate community-scale distributed resources that are in front of the meter.
"Florida will eliminate climate change as a priority in making energy policy decisions, despite the threats it faces from hurricanes, extreme heat and toxic algae blooms.
On Wednesday, the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed the legislation, which is set to go into effect on July 1. The measure also removes references to climate change in state law, bans offshore wind turbines in state waters and weakens regulations on gas pipelines."
Having known a few people in my teens and 20s who lived in their VW buses, I've always considered these to be a more practical vehicle than most sedans (and certainly compared to SUVs). And now they are going electric!
I finally got around to getting off of Substack and I just published my weekly list of #CleanEnergy, #Climate, and #Sustainability Jobs on Ghost for the first time. Happy to move to a platform that doesn’t directly support nazis.
As bald-faced as it gets: Trump promises to give Big Oil whatever it wants on Day 1 if they raise $1 bn for his re-election campaign: removing regulations, halting the #energytransition, more drilling, etc. https://wapo.st/3UARA3p [Gift link]
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One major climate message that we've really got to elevate above all others is that addressing global warming is way, way, way, way less expensive than ignoring it!
The cost of solar power has dropped around 90% over the past decade, and battery storage costs dropped 85% during the same period.
I despair that Canadian first nations might put equity into unconventional nuclear. They are being poorly advised.
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“It’s not going to happen twice. So, we demand to be a part of the small modular reactors opportunity. We see tremendous opportunity and growth with this new technology.”
— Jim Ward, general manager, North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council
After its last #coal power plant shut in 2021 Portugal has shown real leadership in the #energytransition with 91% of its energy coming from renewables and having the lowest power prices in Europe. https://buff.ly/3Uui8n3
Batteries are growing on the grid to handle evening power use surges when solar peters out. California just hit 7GW out of 10GW capacity. Our house is battery powered from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be part of a virtual power plant soon.
Because methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the climate is a good reason to replace your gas stove with an induction cooktop. But health risks could be even more motivating. Pollution reaches bedrooms. Asthma and death rates rise. And I bet you don't use your fume hood much.
Really interesting discussion of China's green/sustainable financing mechanisms (especially relative to the IRA In the US). Favorable financing for things you want, unfavorable for the things you don't. Financially it's a lot like a tax, but it's implemented by a different institution and paid far away from consumers. You can see how it might be politically different from a tax.
Brilliant article on the challenges facing transition to renewables, and why its unlikely
"while the cost of renewable power is now lower than that of fossil fuels, renewables are not a profitable business. The particularities of the .. market structure are the causal factors here... Making sure that capital gets its pound of flesh has crippled the country."
Continuing the theme - why despite hitting #Pakistan's rooftop #solar target half a decade early the Gov is being forced to somehow put brakes on the renewables transition.
" this rapid growth in rooftop solar is creating costs that have to be passed on to poorer segments of the population"