PV Panels Supply Booming
The IRA USA within 12 months has driven over 100GW of production capacity with announcments and operating factories. Along with China and India production pv panels are booming.
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Renewable Energy
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India PV Manufacturing Targets
India is making investment to be the second largest solar panel PV manufacturer with a target of 110GW by 2026. Making progress with 38GW in March 2023.
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Hydropower Reductions
Hydro has been the mainstay of renewable energy but droughts from climate change has reduced the energy produced by 250TWh – Spains electric demand.
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Heat Pumps For Energy Savings
Heat pumps or air conditioners were invented in the early 1900’s and now are the most cost effective for heating and cooling. Replace gas heat systems with heat pumps reduces energy demand by 3 times.
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Ethanol Worse than Gasoline for Global Warming
Is ethanol worse than gasoline for global warming? Turns out it is worse! A recent publication showed that corn ethanol compared with petroleum products increased: So while it is clear ethanol mixtures for gasoline is bad policy, ethanol continues to be used in transportation due to the large
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Sustainable Aviation Fuels Unrealistic
SAF or Sustainable Aircraft fuels are unrealistic. Used cooking oils are as expensive. Agriculture is challenges. Synthetic fuel is expensive. What are some of the options
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Estimates of Renewable Energy Overstated
Most analysts state that the amount of renewable energy will need to be at least the same as energy used today with fossil fuels. Wrong by 45%! Less renewable energy as 45% of current energy is wasted.
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Synthetic Biofuels Using Bacteria
Synthetic biofuels using bacteria to create the biofuel from sugar and CO2 holds promise of creation of fuel with equivalent energy to jet fu
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Batteries win the Transport Race
It is becoming clear that batteries will drive the electrification of transport. Batteries are demonstrating that hydrogen and synthetic fuels are losing ground to the 22% learning curve of batteries. Biofuels may be the only transition fuel for long range aircraft.
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Grid-Scale Batteries from Tesla
Grid-scale batteries are an integral requirement to firm renewable energy, stabililise the grid with battery, wind and solar now the cheapest electricity.
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Green Aluminium is an Easy Technology
Making aluminum green is easy with renewable energy. While there are some more substantial technologies to make sure that aluminum is even lower emissions, an easy start is to contract for renewable energy and storage.
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100% Renewable Energy in 145 Countries in 6 Years
100% Renewable energy in 134 countries with a payback of less than 6 years by replacing the costs of existing fossil fuel, nuclear electricity and using wind water and solar along with storage.
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Life Cycle Analysis for Solar Panels and Inverters
Life cycle analysis shows solar panels and inveerters recover the embedded carbon in less than 11 months, or even more for the latest panels. Published by Fraunhofer and demonstrating solar systems are positive for up to 40 years.
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Electrical Management Systems Key to Efficiency
Electrical management systems have evolved from their large diesel engine power plant buinsess. They have flexible energ
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Low Cost Solar With Thin Film
Thin film solar ought to be a third of the cost of conventional PV panels and as low as 5 to 7 cents per Watt. 20 years in development and recently invested in by FFI from Fortescue Minerals Group.
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Wind Turbines Kill Birds – Fact or Fiction
Wind turbines do kill birds but are not the bird shredders especailly of rare birds such as raptors (eagles, kites). Painting one of the blades black reduced raptor / eagle deaths by over 70%.
Feral cats remain the most lethal risk to birds.
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China Renewable Energy Plan
China has invested heavily in coal for electricity over the past 30 years but has made the switch to renewable energy and targets all new energy from renewable sources by 2025 and net zero by 2060.
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Stop Burning Rocks for Energy
We have burnt rocks for a million years and every year we burn 500 years of the products of the carbonaceas period as fossil fuel. Renewable energy is not fuel. It harnesses energy from the nuclear sun. Batteries can store it. RE stops energy poverty.
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OffGrid Uninterruptible Electricity
Backup generators have been used for conventional grid supplied electricity and are now moving to include batteries and solar to ensure households and businesses can keep operating even in extended blackout conditions.
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Ownership of Australias Electricity and Grid
An improved electricity distributon network will be needed to transport energy from renewable energy generators (solar and wind) to cities and factories. Who owns the existing network? What improvements are needed.
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