My colleague Bill Moore of EV World and EVisioneer2020 writes from his home in Omaha, Nebraska, “(Here’s the) wind power contribution to the Southwest Power Pool this morning.” (See below.)
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Liquid Air: Highview Power Debuts Plan to Build ‘Europe’s Largest Energy Storage System’
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England (pictured): Hi Craig, This could be one more technology on the path to powering the world mostly using wind and solar. Whilst this is the biggest energy storage system …
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Solar PV Installation Numbers
It wasn’t that long ago that I made my presentations to my business clients with an overhead projector and transparencies. I was thrilled when Powerpoint came along, though I never aspired to become a “power user,” and asked my assistant …
India Says No To Coal, Yes To Solar
From “The Independent”: India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations – about the same as the total amount in the UK – with the price for solar electricity “free falling” to levels once considered …
New York’s Enormous Battery Storage Plant
From GreenTech Media: New York’s utility regulator approved construction of a 316-megawatt battery storage plant that would replace fossil-fueled capacity in New York City.
Tagged with: battery storage plant, building gas plants to deal with the variability, enabling the integration of far more the intermittent power coming from solar and wind, gas leakages are causing a huge rise in greenhouse gases, large-scale energy storage is in the process of replacing gas peaker plants
Character Matters
Beam Furr, one of my best friends in college, is now Commissioner of Broward County, Florida. At left is something he published recently. Unassailable logic, written in a firm but even-tempered tone. Good going, Beam. Wish we could relive those halcyon days …
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Insight Into Government Ethics
Here’s an interesting statement from Walter Shaub, an American attorney specializing in government ethics who, from January 9, 2013 to July 19, 2017, was the director of the United States Office of Government Ethics.
Love Survives
A friend sent me this pic just now, captioned by: “Puppeteers in Syria. When everything else fails, love survives.” As long as war remains our go-to tactic for settling international disputes, we’re causing the mass suffering of millions of innocent …
Debunking Claims
Some of the claims we come across are immediately discarded because they violate the laws of physics. Others may be theoretically possible but so outrageous that they too must be tossed out the window.
Operational Costs of Electric Vehicles Are Great, But…
My colleague Bill Moore of EV World fame sent this pic and writes: “Used my long-unused KillaWatt meter to measure how much energy it took to top off the Fiat 500e battery after driving 14.3 miles yesterday. Answer: 4.6kWh for …
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