Renewable Wednesday: Arbitrage in the US Electrical Grid
Renewable electricity needs the widest possible interconnections. There are two major US interconnections, and one smaller one for Texas. The Tres Amigas SuperStation proposed to intertie all three,...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: New Battery Technologies Drive EV and Grid Storage Markets
Batteries for EVs and grid storage are coming down in price at a startling rate, and also increasing in energy density, lifetime, and safety. Cobalt is being engineered out of high-density batteries....
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Good News Thursday: I Support the Real 2nd Amendment
The real 2nd Amendment. Not the revenge fantasies of racists and conspiracy theorists, jammed through the courts. Especially not twisting the 2nd Amendment into a right to guns for self-defense in the...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: California Leads the Nation, as Usual
The last time Right wing Republicans were in charge in California, under Gov. Pete Wilson, they pushed through the infamously anti-immigrant Prop. 187, and destroyed themselves in the state. Then they...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Austrian Conservatives Go Green
An unlikely-sounding coalition of a Conservative Party and a Green Party has come into office in Austria, and is shaking things up with bold plans to go to 100% renewable electricity by 2030, and...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Solar-Powered Trash-Collecting Barges
Sometimes, you look at Good News, and just say, "Wow". Assuming you can get the news, which is what we are here for. The Ocean Cleanup aims to clean up 90% of ocean plastic pollution with a thousand...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: What Satellites Can Tell Us about Cities
Any time you can find a different way to look at the world, you learn something you couldn't imagine before. In general, failure of imagination is our biggest hindrance to progress, whether it is...
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Renewable Wednesday: Mo Green Terawatts
The first terawatt of wind and solar came in 2018. Even before that, the world had a terawatt of hydro. So we are working on our third Green terawatt now, out of about 16 needed worldwide. Bloomberg...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: The Guardian! No More Oil and Gas Ads!
GRETA! THUNBERG! THE GUARDIAN! NO OIL AND GAS ADS!x“The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organisation to institute an...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: U.S. Energy Information Administration Embraces Reality, Some
The EIA is infamous for its absurdly conservative projections for the growth of renewable energy. This year, in complete contradiction to every thing else going on in the Trump Maladministration, the...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: New Desalination Technologies
We looked at desalination, particularly using solar power, not long ago. (Renewable Thursday: Desalination) Almost all of it uses energy-intensive distillation or reverse osmosis. It turns out that...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Deniers Have a Cow Fart
Cows don't fart methane much. They mostly burp it. But spare a thought for the cows that have to live only on perennial ryegrass rather than natural mixed pasture. It is really bad for their health,...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Green Diary Howto I
Can you write an environmental (or any) DK Diary? Sure, assuming that you know about something of interest and can tell a story at all. There are some mechanical issues, like the DK editor and...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Germany Finally Going Off Dirty Brown Coal, Eventually
Germany followed a strange path to renewables. It pushed solar and wind faster than other countries in Europe, but after Fukushima decided to shut down its relatively clean nuclear plants and replace...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Nine Active Climate Tipping Points
I started Renewable Days with Ys in Them to tell you about solutions to Global Warming that the MSM ignores. But there are real disasters looming, like several meters of sea-level rise from collapsing...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: The Hoped-For Republican Death Spiral
John Bolton's book, coming out on March 17, has leaked to the press, with predictable results. Evidently, we don't need more witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial. Mulvaney and The Donaldster...
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Renewable Monday: Planetary Solutions at Yale
The two US universities leading the public Global Warming discussion are Yale (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication) and Stanford (The Solutions Project). Today we are going to look at how Yale...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Tapping Electricity from Your Car
KossackI am not Arthur asked about using a car to power a home when the grid is down. I hadn't heard of it, but the answer is yes. Also yes for small businesses to make money even during emergencies....
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Bloomberg Blasting Trump on Climate and Everything Else
Multi-billionaire and would-be Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is running a whole slew of ads against Donald Trump on a wide range of issues. We will look here at his climate ads and...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: The Last Greatest Fossil Fools, or, Who Loses Biggest...
Fracking runs on the Greater Fool theory of finance, making money in dud investments by unloading wells onto someone else. The Fossil Fool industries, with straight faces, want to take in tens of...
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