'Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to University of Michigan research.
Heat batteries could store intermittent renewable energy during peak production hours, relying on a thermal version of solar cells to convert it into electricity later.'
Milestone for floating offshore wind as world-first auction names winner and price
France has announced the winner of the world’s first commercial scale floating offshore wind auction which will see 250MW built off the coast of Southern Brittany in the country’s west.
In a nation where many revere cows, the animals' waste has become an energy resource.
BBC News reports: "Indian cattle produce around three-million tonnes of cow dung a day. ... The government wants more of that dung, and other agriculture waste, to be made into methane."
In some ways the green transition is already happening: it now looks like last year the world overall managed to supply around 30% of electricity through renewable energy (primarily wind & solar).
And solar continues to be the fastest growing renewable energy source, now (for the second year) being the most used source across the world.
This does offer some hope that (albeit late in the day) we are seeing a shift in energy generation!
To actually accomplish a green transition we (the world) needs to spend around $9 trillion a year.... well that's just not affordable, say climate sceptics.
You might say that, but lets have a look at the money we were prepared to pony up to deal with the pandemic.
While a more focused threat & certainly causing some fiscal issues, when required the money can be found.
(Don't get me started on fossil fuels subsidies!)
So its not the money stopping the green transition!
@ChrisMayLA6 utility grids have to replace old equipment anyway, and that budget runs into the trillion dollars a year anyway. If they just use their regular Investment budget only on renewable energy and batteries. They're most of the way to getting to the $9 billion a year.
Disinformation follow up! https://youtu.be/8ONGuJCIkpQ?si=fGQE-JAHD4k1wbfo
Highlighting fear campaign by
Atlas Network (interestingly not mentioned by name)
The #fossilfuels industry:
• manufacture doubt
• thrive on our fear
• promote idea they are the only thing between us & dystopian chaos eg promote #gas as #energy transition
• created myth they are working for us
• fuel fear of the other eg anti immigration #politics#statecapture#auspol
As with so many things in Britain, the green transition in housing is hampered by infrastructure under-investment - we (the country) have been living in a short-term present driven by the electoral cycle & a lack of vision in our political class.... and its now come round to bite us in the bum.
Only when we start to think strategically (not tactically) about our political economic problems will we be able to engineer better solutions!
I asked my dad (an architect in 1950’s UK) how Britain built houses after the 2nd world war he said - local authorities were allowed to obtain 65year mortgages at which repayments were covered by the rental income - it became self financing.
Current gov will not allow Local Authorities to do this now why not?
"Lithium-ion battery prices have declined from USD 1,400 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to less than USD 140 per kilowatt-hour in 2023, one of the fastest cost declines of any energy technology ever, as a result of progress in research and development and economies of scale in manufacturing."