likewise. I found the NREL piece to be very informative and well written, also for non-electrical engineer. By the way the guy above claiming there is not enough solar energy to fuel the planet is an electrical engineer...
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likewise. I found the NREL piece to be very informative and well written, also for non-electrical engineer. By the way the guy above claiming there is not enough solar energy to fuel the planet is an electrical engineer...
This is a good power on how wind+solar change the system logic. Less inertia, more counterbalances. docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy20ost...
Batteries don't actually create synthetic inertia. They can simply be programmed to modulate loading/unloading of energy to keep voltage in check thus significantly reducing the need for inertia (synthetic or physical). Agreed on the rest.
What the study said was both FOX and MSNBC leave you less informed than more neutral sources like PBS do. That study was 13 years ago. www.businessinsider.com/study-watchi...
A drug boat with 11 people? 11 people? That alone is fishy. Why load up so many people on a boat that's supposed to carry drugs... Does not add up.
I'm afraid he's probably more of a cynical liar.
"We need either synchronous generators or technology that produces inertia in the grid for stability." - Not entirely. Distributed batteries and inverters heavily reduce the need for such generators and/or inertia production while stabilising the grid.
Which suggests he's not stupid. He lies on purpose.
Kills the investment in grid needed argument. The reality is that grid investment is needed because we're electrifying everything. Even here batteries help.
Much of our electricity grid – plants, power lines, and reserves – exists only to cover rare events and is underused most of the time. Batteries are perfect interim fix while we modernize our electric grids because they store and release energy as needed. 🔌💡 www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-beauty...
Thread: Each week I run a simulation of Australia’s main electricity grid using rescaled generation data to show that it can get very close to 100% renewable electricity with 24GW/120GWh of storage (5 hrs at av demand) Results: Last week: 98.5% RE Last 210 weeks: 98.5% RE (1/5)
Yeah, because a lot of energy use is actually energy waste as electrifying everything makes energy use drop drastically. But even at face value he's way off.
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales don't need such a pact. It's more about England.
I think the Greens and the Liberals should do one thing: Sign a pact to not run against each other and divide the seats to who has the better chance of winning.
Unfortunately still alive...
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2.22 PM...
2.13 PM Trump still dead...
Ding Dong Is the Trump with finally dead? 2 PM... Will he or won't he?
NEWS: A federal judge has ruled that Trump’s deployment of military forces to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a law that prohibits the use of the armed forces as a domestic police force.
Wow, they hijacked his Truth Social!
Solar panel productions has been moving out of Uyghur areas - also due to those bans. Apparently though the worst Uyghur camps called literal death camps are the uranium mines.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced a 10-point plan to prepare the country for the climate emergency, warning: “If we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that’s brown from floods, then we need a Spain that’s greener.”
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Cool.
Your are seemingly under the absurd impression this is progress...
Gavin Newsom rulez!
Well, I just self-left them and choose DuckDuckGo. Haven't looked back since.
There is. Change your search engine. DuckDuckGo has become very good.
So true! I use Google less and less. Only as a search engine of last resort in specific situations. It's DuckDuckGo for me now.
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
Paying $250 for the dubious pleasure of visiting the US... This will kill US tourism even worse than the travel boycott... www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
Did you guys notice that Donald Trump's health starting deteriorating quickly when @gavinnewsom.bsky.social started his posting war? Gavin is the Deathstalker!
I don't think he's dead. He's likely on his deathbed though... Melania seems happy, but she's not ecstatic yet...
It's like someone breaking into your house to steal your stuff, injuring himself in the process, and then suing you for his medical expenses.
Good news Monday?
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84%, but the remaining 16% are easy to fill in with some limited solar and batteries... There is more than enough hydro to serve are firming power. It's still just so ridiculous to even propose than in New Zealand...
Where is this coming from? There's no financial case for it when solar & batteries are so cheap. Is NZ First funded from overseas donors? Or are its politicians being paid off? Someone needs to follow the money here.
In New Zealand it makes no sense whatsoever. Ample solar+batteries, add in some wind and you have loads of hydro for any firming needs... Just as ridiculous an idea as nuclear in Australia.
No, for than you would need a techno-autocracy, not the idio-autocracy that the morons from Trumpieland suggest.
No właśnie w 2025 Boeing na razie prowadzi. Po raz pierwszy od lat...
Airbus od lata wygrywa z Boeingiem, ale akurat w 2025 jest do przodu... Z drugiej strony to się może szybko zmienić.
Milczę :)
Tak czy siak mnie dziwi, że w 2025 roku Boeing ma więcej zamówień od Airbusa, choć ludzie wręcz unikają lataniem Boeingiem, kiedy mogą...
No ale Boeing 747 jest tańszy, bo ma 25% mniej miejsc. Pod względem ceny za miejsce z tego, co wiem, jest tańszy.
O Airbusach nigdy nie słyszysz takich historii... Boeing to padaka.
Boeingi 737 maxy są tak zajebiste, że nie działają w nich nawet kible next.gazeta.pl/next/7,15100...
The only honest way to present Republicans' environmental policies is to clearly explain that they are willing to let Americans die in order to increase their donors' profits. grist.org/accountabili...
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Prof. Marco Raugei (Oxford) also indicated this in Shitter back in the day. He was also the one that showed me the new paper on solar and other research aimed at updating the Ecoinvent/PVPS database. Now I can't find it 😔 First time in a while I regret deleting my Shitter account 😇
Energy intensity of production have dropped even up to 90%, while materials used are thinner and thinner (minus the glass) by up to 75% since 2010... And yet we're supposed to believe no drop in emissions for solar since IPCC 2014? Research in solar has trouble keeping up with a fast growing tech.
I read a paper with updated input data but I just can't find it now. Oh, they also use the non-real life assumption of concrete slabs while the norm in over 95% of solar farms are mounted on screws or T-beams with no concrete.
No, mostly not the paper's fault. Almost all LCA papers use production data from IEA PVPS which uses data gathered over 10 years ago. Production processes since then have improved - less material, less energy. UNEC uses 25 years so okay, albeit solar plants on average have 32,5 year life spans.
That data from the UNEC report is bad and outdated. Emissions for new solar panels are at least three times smaller. I can't find the new research but new panels now have emissions well below 20.
Nice. Especially point 3 is what I expect from all PDs in Blue states and towns.
Like something from the movie Braindead.
I dunno... As far as I see it he's the walking dead...
Looks like he's undead to be honest...
Coal is not and never will be clean, but newer plants are still better than the older ones. Try nuance for a change. It doesn't hurt.
WTF are you on about? a) Coal use in China is dropping. b) Increased coal plant capacity concides with dropping capacity factors. c) China is also closing plants, albeit its still net plus. c) Yes, newer plants are more efficient than older ones. bsky.app/profile/clea...
Truth Social already in with Weekend at Bernie's themes:
Morning Bluesky. Tesla had its seventh straight monthly decline in European sales in July, dropping 40% to 8,837. Chinese rival BYD surged past Tesla with 225% sales increase, to 13,503.
Rising solar panel imports in Africa can help replace oil imports🛢️ Given that solar panels can pay for themselves in diesel savings in as little as 6 months, rising solar panel imports across Africa can set it up for an affordable & clean future 🌍💵 https://loom.ly/IBLOSSw
"Make America safe again"? AGAIN???? Bitch, America was never as safe in history as it was when Biden left office.
Song suggestion if the rumours are true: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11S...
My exact thought.
Good time to delete that bitch.
Will never happen for one simple reason: It'll be complex to build and centralised. Why buy centralised power when you can have distributed solar+batteries? Leaving only a sliver of the market to other energy solutions.
Oil collapse imminent if China's EV trajectory is anything like Norway's. Once Chinese oil demand crashes it'll change the entire geopolitical landscape.
Nuclear needs to refuel. So when is the best time to refuel? Outside of seasonal peaks. Also demand is not constant: it peaks in winter and summer in the US so less need for energy then. Hence the seasonal output. Nuclear in bulk plan to refuel in Spring/Autumn.
Check out India: same trajectory. Will likely overtake the USA this year as the second largest installar of wind+solar.
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China needs a lot of energy but the investment in solar and wind means that coal use has peaked and is now dropping. No number of new plants change that as the plants are increasingly used as peaker plants.
Coal use peaked and is slowly dropping in China. New coal plants are more technologically advanced, older ones are being taken down and the overall capacity factors of plants is steadily dropping.
I believe it would. It's a forward-thinking technocracy. When push comes to shove they believe the science and think in the long term its beneficial also for them. That's my take from talking to a few Chinese. Maybe wishful thinking but I stick with it...
He will not have a singular vector of support around him like Trump did. Republicans will likely not fall in line so easily.
The fact that people are pre-celebrating his death gives me a tiny bit of hope for this country
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
Sociopath
Saw this circulating and wanted to thank @mattkennard.bsky.social for the accuracy of the reply.
this man has gone TOO FAR
I'm wondering whether this could result in massive legal action for return of illegally taken tariffs... Albeit I doubt companies will risk getting on Trump's bad side.
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
Tesla's Europe sales cratered 40% in July while overal EV sales were up 34% compared to a year ago. Tesla sales in the Netherlands were down 62%! finance.yahoo.com/news/teslas-...
The side effect of increasing energy prices and grid instability will be the opposite of what Trump wants... A surge in private investment in solar and batteries. My problem with the US being that private household solar is ridiculously expensive...
It's not just the orange chump I'm trying to make clear. The entire GOP has been purchased by the fossil fuel industry we need for our electorate to understand. As to blue states stepping up, just yesterday New Jersey voted to fast-track 1.5 GW of community solar for low-income people.
Yeah, Donald can only block so much in terms of onshore wind and solar.
Well, that's dead in the water for the next 5 or so years...
Killing clean energy projects means killing jobs and raising bills. 64,000 jobs already lost or at risk. 400,000 more on the line. The future is clean energy—and that’s where we must invest.
Here is the kicker... There is a massive import surge in July and one also expected in August. Plus trumpflation is kicking in... The numbers for the third quarter will be terrible.
I to jest NEWS‼️ TV Republika bez koncesji na nadawanie ‼️ Choć od orzeczenia przysługuje skarga kasacyjna do Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego to mam nadzieję, że wyrok zostanie utrzymany. Decyzja w sprawie koncesji dla Telewizji Republika uchylona - TVN24 share.google/2xGTyv47j5MB...
Fuck them and their econometrist statisticians!
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I'm really hoping the Nobel Committee trolls Trump. I dunno... let them nominate Newsom! Or Garcia Abrego!
Can't tell if this is real :)
4. Nuclear is not an alternative to gas/coal/hydro/etc. because it's too expensive to operate as a firming plant at 1-10% capacity.