A rare moment when a video title is not clickbait. Great report from DW Planet A on energy system inefficiencies. I've wonder whether talking more about efficiency and waste to climate skeptics might bring them on board with green policies. Personally, I don't care how we do it, as long as we get to the same end result of a more sustainable world.
"The dream in the USA of 'electric SUVs for all' rests on the back of extraction from the mines of Congo and from the bodies of Congolese workers who are supposed to bear the brunt of that Dream. This is not a viable future."— @jasonhickel
"If the plan is to convert everything worth converting into goodbye kiss revenues for a sunsetting industry, eventually a petrostate will need greater control of its populace & its democracy. The successful implementation of Bills 20 & 18 are vehicles to that end."
U.S. military has partnered with Sage geothermal company to install energy storage.
EarthStor is a mechanical energy storage technology that taps into the pressure energy of fluid stored deep underground. When electricity supply surpasses demand excess electricity is used to power pumps and inject water below ground. Then, when the grid needs it the heated pressurized water can drive turbines that generate electricity.
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."
"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."
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.
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]
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.