Vanadium is expensive, though the price fluctuates wildly – currently $11K to $15K / tonne of Vanadium Pentoxide. But advocates claim Vanadium flow batteries have the potential to solve the…
Category: solar power
WA “Solves” the Solar Energy Duck Curve by Raising Evening Electricity Prices
In a desperate attempt to contain the damage government subsidised rooftop solar energy has done to the grid, West Australia is trialling a pricing scheme which offers cheap electricity around…
Elon Musk: Electric Vehicles will Double Electricity Demand, but Renewables And Grid Scale Batteries will Deliver
Elon Musk claiming his coming in 2021 fully autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers, and how renewables can supply the redoubled energy needs of the future, though they will…
AU $53 Billion to Service a Green Hydrogen Market which Does Not Exist
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Federal Government has expedited approval for a $53 billion project and the devastation of 78 Sq KM of wilderness, to produce green hydrogen…
Spanish Researchers Claim a Green Hydrogen Breakthrough
Researchers in Spain claim their breakthrough cuts the cost of electrolysis cells, by replacing the traditional arrangement of layered electrode plates with a much simpler electrochemical system.
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
While solar power is a leading form of renewable energy, new research suggests that changes to regional climates brought on by global warming could make areas currently considered ideal for…
“Zimbabwe and Puerto Rico … provide models” for our Renewable Energy Future
According to Boston Review, we have to surrender our obsession with continuous electricity supply to save the world from climate change.
Claim: Gujarat Solar Park is Failing to Fulfil Mandatory UN Renewable Energy Gender Empowerment Requirements
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; According to North Michigan Assistant Professor Professor Ryan Stock, despite having a “gender positive” female empowerment programme, Gujarat Solar Park is…
Solar panels generate mountains of waste
Solar panels generate mountains of waste They also heat the planet, blanket wildlife habitats and cause other ecological damage
Forbes: “Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push”
Even Forbes, whose deep green editors recently censored Michael Shellenberger for criticising the climate movement, has sharply criticised California’s headlong rush into a new dark age of unreliable electricity.
Rolling Blackouts in California? Who could have guessed?
The blistering heat wave is expected to tax the state’s power grid. A Flex Alert has been issued for Friday that asks Californians to reduce power usage from 3 to…
NASA is Funding a Search for Alien Civilisations Powered by Solar Cells
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Maybe someone out there has solved the problem of renewable energy intermittency. With intelligent life in scant supply on Earth, boffins search for technosignatures of…
How efficient are solar power storage systems?
‘Testbench’ project improves quality of measurement results and facilitates comparison Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) More and more photovoltaic systems are equipped with batteries that store power produced during sunshine…
Aussie MSM: Heavy Industry Not Seeing the Advantages of Low Cost Renewable Energy Opportunities
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia’s leading newspapers, aluminium smelters and other heavy industry is just not seeing what their role could…
BBC Climate change: Green energy plant threat to wilderness areas
Guest essay by Eric Worrall “If we let these developments go ahead, the biodiversity will be gone long before climate change starts affecting it” Climate change: Green energy plant threat…
How much electricity may produce a $1 Billion Solar Plant backed by the Obama Energy Department?
Guest post by Albert Parker en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Project#/media/File:Crescent_Dunes_Solar_December_2014.JPG It is in the news, as expected Crescent Dunes, the world largest concentrated solar power plant featuring 10 hours of molten salt thermal energy…
DC Solar Owners Plead Guilty to Largest Ponzi Scheme in Eastern California History
From the DOJ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, January 24, 2020 Top Executives Plead Guilty to Participating in a Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme—the Biggest Criminal Fraud Scheme in the History of…
U.S. Government continues to dump funds into an electrical sinkhole
Guest post by Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California When I read the WSJ article “The Best-Laid Energy Plans” about…
Report: A Cloud Drifting Over a Solar Farm Knocked Out Power for 10hrs
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Dr. Willie Soon; an independent report blamed operator incompetence for allowing clouds to affect the solar energy supply. NT sacks energy chiefs after report…
Predictions are Hard, Especially About the Future
Gasoline vs Electric Vehicle Future Fuel Costs This was originally a comment on David Middleton’s post, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/31/the-oil-age-is-doing-just-fine-bloomberg-new-energy-finance-notwithstanding/ The original comment was from Detengineer, in reply to another comment from Mark,…
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