Renewable Tuesday: Solar-Powered Cities for India
India is endlessly fascinating, but not always in a good way. Here their PM is calling for a massive solar development, but with a vast lack of imagination, and onerous strings attached. India...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: New Price Cuts from Tesla; Terafactories May be a Reason
We have actual news about actual Tesla price cuts. Then we have Elon Musk hinting at exciting new developments, but delaying the actual announcements. Then we have real bidding on possibly...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Best Countries for Solar Investment
I got hold of this story through a Portuguese-language feed, but it is of course a totally global tale.Chile, Brasil y Argentina siguen siendo los países de LatAm más atractivos para invertir en...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: Refrigeration
Most of the attention on Global Warming quite rightly goes to renewable electricity and EVs. But we have to thank those who focus on the less glamorous parts of the problem. Refrigeration, including...
View ArticleGood News Roundup: We're Finally Getting Somewhere on Police Shootings
Or murders or lynchings. Systemic racism no matter how you slice it. After centuries of police immunity, of denial of the humanity of our Black Brothers and Sisters, we have prosecutions in Minnesota,...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Moore Movie Madness
Michael Moore definitely knows how to stir up a controversy, sometimes to good effect. But it is nearly universally agreed that Planet of the Humans (like Planet of the Apes, ha-ha, get it?) gets the...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: 15 GW of Solar for Israel
Mazel tov, Eretz Yisroel! No coal after 2026! Huge amounts of solar! Now, we just have to get a new Israeli government willing to abandon gas.Israel lifted our spirits, by announcing plans to add 15 GW...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Battery Storage in China
We have Good News for battery storage in China, and we have Bad News, and we have Good News again. Production is going up. Installations are going up. Costs are coming down. But covid-19 and erratic...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: Electric Buses in Brazil to Advance Batteries
ledeBrazilian buses to help drive down cost of lithium-sulfur batteriesBritish manufacturer Oxis Energy has announced plans to help Brazil to an all-electric bus fleet by 2045.Huw Hampson-Jones, CEO of...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: Green Finance
Rule One of Green Finance: Fossil Foolishness has become vastly more expensive than wind, solar, storage, and so on, and increasingly unprofitable. Rule Two: When you talk about Real Money, even the...
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Thursday Good News Roundup: Hey, Worrywarts! Obama Never Had Numbers This Good
I'm going to keep this simple. Stop fussing. Calm down and carry on. We are the increasing majority on every issue, by wide margins. By the numbers, in June 2008 and 2012, with final election results,...
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Renewable Thursday: Microgrids in Puerto Rico
Trump hates Boricuas/Puerto Riqueños at the best of times. In addition, FEMA is, by law, not permitted to rebuild the storm-shattered energy grid in PR with distributed solar and wind power, our topic...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Solar Sustainability
Sustainability means different things to different stakeholders. It can be mining and recycling of materials, and it can be the quite different question of a sustainable global economy that brings...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Hydrogen in Australia
Despite the political hooraw about renewables in Australia, the people and the private sector are charging [sic] ahead. One can argue about batteries or fuel cells for vehicles of various sorts, or one...
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EV Tuesday: Watch out Tesla! Here comes the Nikola Badger Pickup!
Elon Musk grabbed up Nikola Tesla's last name, and now Trevor Milton of Nikola Motors has taken his first name, and raised vast amounts of money on a promise of delivering a truck in 2022 with a...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Now You're Cooking Without Gas
Professional chefs are all agog about municipal bans on natural gas for heating and cooking. Some are suing Berkeley, CA, claiming that the bans on flame will destroy much of the industry. It sounds...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: 1.5 Terawatts of Solar in 2024
Carl Sagan didn't say it, but I will: Terawatts and terawatts and terawatts...When I started this series more than a year ago, we had about a TW of hydro and a TW of wind and solar. This has been a...
View ArticleRenewable Thursday: NGOs vs AGW
Some of us have stepped up to the disaster. Some want to make it worse. Sitting on your hands is a vote for the latter. Here is some of what is going on to tackle Anthropogenic Global Warming, and some...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Solar Air Force Base
The Federal government is way too big for Trump to be able to interfere with all of it. US DoD is one of the loudest voices warning about dire consequences of AGW, and is trying to make itself as...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: €140 Billion EU Hydrogen Market by 2030
We have looked at applications of hydrogen, and specific projects. Here is an analysis of the entire European Union hydrogen market through 2030. The problem, as with many technologies, is reducing...
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