Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:40:37 +0000
A new coal-killing energy storage proposal fits right in with the Energy Department’s vision for wind and solar grid integration (wait, what about coal?)
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:20:16 +0000
The next generation of energy storage is set to go far and beyond the capabilities of today’s Li-ion technology, as federal energy experts eyeball a goal of 120 gigawatts in storage by
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:14:33 +0000
A big part of Livingston and Conroy’s pitch to the DoE was to leverage soon-to-be-commercialized oscillating disk technology in a mostly continuous tunneling model. This would entail not only having the oscillating disk cutter, but also automated ceiling bolting and shotcreting for tunnel stabilization
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:07:36 +0000
Pumped storage hydro has far more resource potential than required for a fully decarbonized grid and it’s cheap per megawatt-hour (MWh) of storage. The downside is that it’s slow to build, capital intensive, and heavily regulated right now in the United States. The Department of Energy FAST program aims to change that
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:32:23 +0000
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:24:04 +0000
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 02:30:04 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 2nd article covers an additional six pros and cons
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:48:53 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 1st article covers evaporation management
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:07:15 +0000
While Jacobson’s latest Stanford study on 100% renewables by 2050 will draw fire for leaning into the Green New Deal, it strongly supports that policy
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:06:12 +0000
Jacobson’s latest study carefully uses with current technologies and currently available resources for storage and transmission. The latest evidence is that there are much cheaper alternatives than his team models, underselling the potential