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.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:15:57 +0000
What does it look like to enhance electrical grid and community resilience through repurposing decommissioned mines into underground pumped storage facilities?
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:35:24 +0000
Wärtsilä is a 180-year old company that pivoted through technology changes leading to engines for marine power and electricity, and is now a storage leader.
Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:40:18 +0000
What You Need To Know About This Year’s Annual Technology Baseline, Including Distributed Wind and Pumped Storage Hydropower Supply Curve Data for the First Time The 2022 Electricity Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) is now available, including distributed wind and pumped storage hydropower supply curve data for the first time. The ATB integrates current and projected cost and […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:54:15 +0000
Energy Vault’s tech is not a solution, and while it would work at least for a while, it won’t be cheap, it will have lots of failure conditions and it will be high-carbon.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:49:54 +0000
Energy Vault’s solution which ‘fixes’ the problems with its first approach leads to CO2e per kWh numbers worse than natural gas generation, and makes a mockery of its claims of low cost storage.
Credit to Author: Saurabh| Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:32:56 +0000
India-based renewable energy developer Greenko has signed two deals for its pumped hydropower storage project. According to media reports, one of India’s largest industrial conglomerates, Adani Group, recently signed an agreement with Greenko for using the latter’s pumped hydropower storage capacity. Adani will utilize around 6 gigawatt-hours of storage capacity for its industrial complex. In […]