Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:47:47 +0000
Projects have what are called fat-tail risks and results. There’s a lot more variation at the extremes than for other things like human height.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:42:50 +0000
Flow batteries sport a number of advantages compared to lithium-ion batteries, including the ability to restart quickly after being idled for long periods of time.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:33:34 +0000
The new Chris Hemsworth project “Limitless” is the perfect antidote to climate doomerism (with bonus energy storage angle, of course).
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:30:39 +0000
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) acted as lead authors on five reports in a larger series designed to strengthen America’s clean energy supply chains. The following NREL-authored, topic-specific “deep-dive” studies are intended to inform national policy at the highest level. Solar Photovoltaics (PV) [PDF] Solar power could supply 40% […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:31:48 +0000
The United States has a great network of waterways that is used for municipal, agricultural, and industrial purposes. With millions of miles of pipelines and conduits, the opportunity to harness that wasted energy with conduit hydropower is tremendous. In a recent study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, there was great […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:15:33 +0000
Green hydrogen for energy is an economic dead end, not a replacement for fossil fuel revenues, and the sooner Queensland policy makers internalize that, the sooner Queensland will be able to address its economic realities.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:50:46 +0000
The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:45:14 +0000
What are the quickest, smartest things regarding green energy that society should do first? In short, the quickest, smartest, greenest, most economical way to produce electricity is now from wind, water, and solar. See: Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything by Mark Z. Jacobson. However, in developed countries, no additional large-scale hydroelectric dams can be […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:43:21 +0000
Shah’s perspective is that investing 3-5 times more in transmission and expecting improvements in battery storage is a risky strategy. Shah is bullish on nuclear, especially putting new SMRs on retiring coal plants where transmission is already built.