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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday urged furloughed federal workers facing a second missed paycheck to seek loans to pay their bills while adding that he could not understand why they were having trouble getting by. In a CNBC interview, Ross, who made a fortune buying distressed comp...
The Irena Slav story with this title emphasizes rising costs for lithium, nickel, and cobalt. Storage solutions presently appearing on the market dont use those metals. https://essinc.com/ https://formenergy.com/ One of these is an iron chloride flow battery and the other an iron/air battery. Bot...
WTF? Capture CO2 out of the air, electrolyze it to make CO (Carbon Monoxide), let it sit in an airtight tank at room temperature, and it spontaneously converts to CO2 and graphite. Anyone that needs graphite can pretty much make it out of thin air. Any analyst that is proclaiming that there is a ...
4 hours ago, Meredith Poor said: "The U.S. is woefully unprepared to handle “the electrification of everything,” as Amy Myers Jaffe, a research professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, describes the drive to electrify transportation and buildings and parts of industry in The Wall Street Journal." Whoops. WSJ is a Rupert Murdoch property. To get some idea of the objectiveness of such reporting, look at the Sky News reports about renewable energy in Australia. If the assertions appear to be prejudiced, check the math. Crude numbers time: 36% of NG used in USA goes ...
57 minutes ago, Meredith Poor said: The screen shot below is the EIA power dashboard for the US, showing as of 3:00 PM February 10th demand for 500Gw. (500,000Mwh each hour would be 500,000Megawatts of demand at a particular moment). 15Megawatts * .6 'productivity factor' = 9 Mw average actual output. 500,510 / 9 = 55,612 turbines. 236 meters x 3 feet = 700 foot diameter. Turbine spacing is often 3x, so these turbines will be separated by 2100 feet. This works out basically to 4 per square mile. 55,512 / 4 = 13,903, or basically 14,000 square miles. sqrt(14,000) = square 11...