Guest essay by Eric Worrall Huffpost has published a very supportive post, about New York State embracing nuclear power as an equal player in the low carbon energy game. The…
Category: solar power
"World’s First 24/7 Solar Power Plant Powers 75,000 Homes" for 3 hours per day.
Guest post by David Middleton SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes Project in Tonopah, Nevada is quietly providing clean, green solar energy to 75,000 homes in the Silver State even when the sun…
"Forget Godzilla, NYC Gets Monster-Sized 'Virtual' Solar Power Plant"
Guest post by David Middleton 1.8 MW and 4 MWh of storage… Godzilla? Not even Ant-Man. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant generates over 150,000…
There is a Way to make Renewables Viable
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Renewables in their current form are a nonsense solution to the world’s energy needs. However, there is a combination of technologies which could make solar…
The Solar Plane – a Perfect Metaphor for What is Wrong With Renewables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Solar Impulse 2 has finally completed completed the latest leg of its round the world flight. In engineering terms, a round the world flight…
A Solar Power Plant vs. A Natural Gas Power Plant: Capital Cost – Apples to Apples
Guest essay by Philip Dowd Here is a simple example that illustrates why current solar technology will be hard-pressed to replace existing carbon-fired power plants. Let’s suppose that a power…
What Powers The Electricity?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a generator-by-generator analysis of the US power supply for 2012, called “eGrid”, available here as an Excel file. I’ve aggregated the data by fuel…
Californian Government Intensifies Attack on Renewables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall WUWT recently reported how California had abandoned rooftop solar, by excluding them from generous renewable credit schemes. California has now intensified its attack on renewable…
Underwater Balloons – a new idea in Energy Storage?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Hydrostor has created an interesting innovation in energy storage. The energy is stored as compressed air, in giant underwater balloons. Hydrostor’s system works in several…
Germany's impossible and impractical wind and solar goal
Bjorn Lomborg writes to tell us of this new video analysis of the current state of solar and wind in the context: After decades and hundreds of billions of dollars,…
California Government Abandons Rooftop Solar, Favors Big Utilities
California has stunned green advocates, by excluding rooftop solar from their renewable energy mandate. According to the LA Times; California’s aggressive push to increase renewable energy production comes with a…
Bill Gates announces Green Tech Fund to Make Renewables Viable
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Entrepreneur Bill Gates has announced a one billion dollar green tech fund, to try to make renewables fit for purpose. According to the Sydney Morning…
Thirty-Eight Years Of Subsidies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach On April 18, 1977, President Jimmy Carter announced his new energy policy. His speech included the following predictions of a dire future unless we repented…
Another US solar business in trouble?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall SunEdison, whose share price has plunged by around 75% in the last few months, is rumoured to be on the verge of laying off a…
Darcy Farrow
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “Where the Walker runs down to the Carson Valley plains, There lived a maiden, Darcy Farrow was her name. The daughter of old Dundee and…
Going Solar: System Requirements For 100% U.S. Solar Generated Utility Baseload Electricity
By: Tom D. Tamarkin & Barrie Lawson Over the next 50 years, utility companies in the United States must replace approximately 440 Gigawatts (GW) of baseload generation capacity to provide…
Obama May Finally Succeed!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For this post I’ve taken as my departure point a couple of very interesting graphs from over at Not A Lot Of People Know That.…
Making better solar panels by mimicking butterfly posture
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Butterflies heat up the field of solar research The humble butterfly could hold the key to unlocking new techniques to make solar energy cheaper and…
Solar Fossil Fueled Fantasies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. Sometimes when I’m reading about renewable technologies, I just break out laughing at the madness that the war on carbon has wrought. Consider the Ivanpah…
Solar plane flight aborted due to bad weather
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Solar Impulse 2, an attempt to raise awareness of the environmental issues, by flying around the world the world using solar energy, has been…
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