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by flgb 2mo ago
Data Centres don't necessarily need to have negative environmental impacts .. they can be made to use water and energy sustainability. This is just a matter of regulation. Extracting, exporting, and burning fossil fuels not so much.
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by flgb 2mo ago
Not really. The fundamental costs and margin requirements in the system haven't changed. This is a government-mandated electricity plan (a default market offer) that competitive electricity retailers are now required to offer. Those re
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by flgb 3mo ago
Meanwhile SoftBank buys ABB’s robotics business .. https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20251008
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Australia hits power demand record as renewables pass 50pc milestone(abc.net.au)
3 points by flgb 8mo ago|0 comments
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by flgb 1y ago
A similar cultural statement to this X post, just with a higher price tag … https://x.com/energy/status/1950904421669318868?s=46&t=bC_eC...
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by flgb 2y ago
It’s not 100% “instead”, but equally it’s not 0%. A grid with more distributed generation (and storage and load flexibility) can be smaller and cheaper.
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by flgb 2y ago
The framing in the article is that Germany made a purely technical decarbonization policy choice between renewable energy and nuclear power and chose incorrectly, but this is too reductive. Germany has a long history of public opposition to
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Wind power and solar photovoltaics have higher energy returns than fossil fuels(nature.com)
31 points by flgb 2y ago|22 comments
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by flgb 2y ago
Even China, who nuclear advocates point to as “getting it right” look like they realize this now .. https://johnmenadue.com/chinas-quiet-energy-revolution-the-s...
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China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy(johnmenadue.com)
39 points by flgb 2y ago|89 comments
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by flgb 2y ago
So how would you start phasing out plastic?
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by flgb 2y ago
Dog whistling. The phrase "green energy transition" is mentioned only in the headline, and is completely irrelavent to the point being made in article, which is that unregulated mining in poor developing countries is bad.
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by flgb 3y ago
Somehow? Wild guess, but maybe they will be selling the product of that R&D for more than 10 days.
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by flgb 3y ago
Being overweight is unequivocally a bad thing. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01165-5
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by flgb 3y ago
Every power generation technology needs ‘backup capacity’ and energy storage. If your transmission line to your nuclear power station trips, you need reserve capacity elsewhere to serve the load. Gas and coal generation all need storage to
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Extinguishing the EV Battery Fire Hype(spectrum.ieee.org)
56 points by flgb 3y ago|70 comments
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by flgb 3y ago
I’ve seen one of these in a commercial building: https://www.yanmar.com/global/energy/ghp/vrf/ . But a renewable energy powered heat pump is better.
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by flgb 3y ago
Although interestingly LAVO is 'pivoting' .. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/11/02/lavo-pivots...
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by flgb 3y ago
That’s a complete myth and just more of the same ‘concern trolling’ on renewables that is hampering decarbonization
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Rooftop solar 'cannibalising' power prices as generators pay to stay online(abc.net.au)
1 points by flgb 3y ago|1 comments
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by flgb 3y ago
No one is powering a house with a battery, or hydrogen, for 100 hours. Neither are an energy source. We will power houses with low cost carbon-free energy: nuclear and renewables. For renewables, interconnection and load and generation dive
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by flgb 3y ago
Hydrogen is expensive to produce, store and transport. We only see Hydrogen vehicles like this because of Government grants .. we only see Hydrogen fueling stations because of Government grants. Once the grants stop, the cars will stop. Lit
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by flgb 3y ago
Extra steps? Not sure about that. Solar farms are definitely much, much simpler .. thousands or even millions of perfectly uniform panels manufactured in a factory, some wiring and power electronics and some electrical infrastructure to con
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by flgb 3y ago
“The amount of raw materials in one long-range battery electric vehicle could instead be used to make 6 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles or 90 hybrid electric vehicles. For the same limited resources, instead of replacing one internal combu
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by flgb 4y ago
Shelley’s poem comes to mind “I met a traveller from an antique land, …”
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Japan's hydrogen strategy does nothing for decarbonisation: study(hydrogeninsight.com)
208 points by flgb 4y ago|444 comments
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by flgb 4y ago
Wholesale energy prices are uniform, network service prices aren't.
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Clean energy gold rush: Tackling energy price turbulence and coal’s exodus(theconversation.com)
1 points by flgb 4y ago|0 comments
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by flgb 4y ago
> “And on top of that, electricity production is only ~40% of carbon emissions.” We are electrifying heating and transport. As a result about 80% of end-use energy will end up being electricity.
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by flgb 4y ago
What’s baseload? If you mean minimum demand from the grid, in Western Australia where I am it’s around 5% of peak demand, In South Australia it’s zero. In Western Australia coal will be gone by the end of the decade. In South Australia it’s

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