The Remarkable Progress of Renewable Energy

[ZiprHead]

 

[robnisch]

They are warning people with EVs that were flooded by tidal surge to not start them without expert help. Salt water is bad for EVs.

 

[barbos]

Unadulterated BS.

 

[bilby]

They are warning people with EVs that were flooded by tidal surge to not start them without expert help. Salt water is bad for EVs.

Salt water is bad for vehicles, period.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Constellation Energy, will be restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor to sell the power to Microsoft for, what else, power hungry AI data centers. They expect to be on line by 2028 if all goes well with the NRC.

Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down in 2022 hopes to restart the in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“We’ve been using all of the tools in our tool belt to support the nuclear energy sector, keep reactors online, and to bring them back, and to finance advanced reactor deployment as well,” David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy

Well that's something. I don't know what thing, but something.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And then there's the roads to consider. More un-sprung weight means more pavement damage.

Axle to axle? Not enough of these things being mobilized on the road to have that much of an impact.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

They are warning people with EVs that were flooded by tidal surge to not start them without expert help. Salt water is bad for EVs.

Salt water is bad for vehicles, period.

I think it is bad for an ICE, dangerous for an EV.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

They are warning people with EVs that were flooded by tidal surge to not start them without expert help. Salt water is bad for EVs.

Salt water is bad for vehicles, period.

Yeah, but it would usually just kill a gasoline engine. An EV has the potential to dump the battery energy through some sort of corrosion from the salt.

 

[Tigers!]

Last British coal fired plant closed

Now we can begin to see what a non-coal electrical future looks like.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Last British coal fired plant closed

Now we can begin to see what a non-coal electrical future looks like.

Wouldn't India and China need to stop burning it... as well as the US, Japan, and Australia... and all the other countries?

 

[Tigers!]

Last British coal fired plant closed

Now we can begin to see what a non-coal electrical future looks like.

Wouldn't India and China need to stop burning it... as well as the US, Japan, and Australia... and all the other countries?

The British can be the guinea pig as to how a 1st world economy can, or cannot, cope by reducing generation of electricity using hydrocarbons. I for one will be watching closely.

 

[bilby]

Last British coal fired plant closed

Now we can begin to see what a non-coal electrical future looks like.

Wouldn't India and China need to stop burning it... as well as the US, Japan, and Australia... and all the other countries?

The British can be the guinea pig as to how a 1st world economy can, or cannot, cope by reducing generation of electricity using hydrocarbons. I for one will be watching closely.

The French already did it. Forty years ago.

The British aren't even trying very hard; Mostly they have switched from coal to gas.

Last time I checked, methane is still a hydrocarbon. (Coal is not - it's mostly carbon, and any hydrocarbons present are an unwanted impurity).

 

[TV and credit cards]

How power-hungry AI could help fuel growth in alternative energy

Preliminary findings suggest power requirements for AI will be here much sooner than any clean energy to support it. There are a number of nuclear plants across the United States in various states of decommission. Even if the will is there, I doubt there are more than a handful that can be brought back on line. Fully decommissioned is defined as it is now a field of grass ready for housing, farming, etc.

I haven't read of any push back on reopening these nuclear facilities. So I guess the public is generally okay with it. Who would have thought that a renaissance in nuclear power would be a burning desire to create silly pictures on the internet. Well, when California decides it needs to reopen San Onofre, I'll know we will have reached a turning point.

Google "decommissioned nuclear plants across the united states" for more information.

 

[Tigers!]

An unexpected, marginal benefit to owning an EV

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223014669#:~:text=The%20total%20energy%20consumption%20per,)%20(Figure%201A).

So with the issue of green hydrogem running into the wall where liquified Hydrogen costs too much energy, green ammonia is becoming a thing. Ammonia is very energy intensive to create, but its use to help increase food quantities made its value aa being involved in fertilizer was close to priceless. But as a green option? Seems like fraud as we have to build out massive green infrastructure to support its production. Robbing Paul to pay Peter.

 

[bilby]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223014669#:~:text=The%20total%20energy%20consumption%20per,)%20(Figure%201A).

So with the issue of green hydrogem running into the wall where liquified Hydrogen costs too much energy, green ammonia is becoming a thing. Ammonia is very energy intensive to create, but its use to help increase food quantities made its value aa being involved in fertilizer was close to priceless. But as a green option? Seems like fraud as we have to build out massive green infrastructure to support its production. Robbing Paul to pay Peter.

Yeah, this scramble to find new liquid fuels to replace hydrocarbons is just silly.

We already have the infrastructure, the vehicles, and the other end use equipment (from incinerators to lawnmowers) that were designed and built for hydrocarbons.

It's rarely cheaper or more efficient to make Hydrogen, or Ammonia, or Ethanol, than it is to make synthetic hydrocarbons. And given the huge worldwide hydrocarbon infrastructure that would need replicating or re-engineering (at great expense both to economies and environments), any such novel fuel will need to be FAR cheaper, and FAR less environmentally damaging, than such synthetic hydrocarbons, if it is to be a better option.

We can, and should, make gasoline and other hydrocarbons from air, water, and electricity. And we should stop fannying around with Hydrogen and Ammonia, and just get on with doing it.

This paper was written seventeen years ago... https://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/GreenFreedom.pdf

 

[TV and credit cards]

Constellation Energy, will be restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor to sell the power to Microsoft for, what else, power hungry AI data centers. They expect to be on line by 2028 if all goes well with the NRC.

Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down in 2022 hopes to restart the in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“We’ve been using all of the tools in our tool belt to support the nuclear energy sector, keep reactors online, and to bring them back, and to finance advanced reactor deployment as well,” David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy

Well that's something. I don't know what thing, but something.

More of a thing:
Google said it has agreed to buy a total of 500 megawatts of power from six to seven reactors

Google said by committing to a so-called order book framework with Kairos, instead of buying one reactor at a time, it is sending a demand signal to the market and making a long-term investment to speed development of SMRs.

"The NRC is ready to efficiently and appropriately review applications for new reactors," said Scott Burnell, an NRC spokesperson.

"We're confident that this novel approach is going to improve the prospects of our projects being delivered on cost and on schedule," said Mike Laufer, CEO and co-founder of Kairos.

Nuclear reactors to be "delivered on cost and on schedule" A bold statement to be sure.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Constellation Energy, will be restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor to sell the power to Microsoft for, what else, power hungry AI data centers. They expect to be on line by 2028 if all goes well with the NRC.

Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down in 2022 hopes to restart the in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“We’ve been using all of the tools in our tool belt to support the nuclear energy sector, keep reactors online, and to bring them back, and to finance advanced reactor deployment as well,” David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy

Well that's something. I don't know what thing, but something.

More of a thing:
Google said it has agreed to buy a total of 500 megawatts of power from six to seven reactors

Google said by committing to a so-called order book framework with Kairos, instead of buying one reactor at a time, it is sending a demand signal to the market and making a long-term investment to speed development of SMRs.

"The NRC is ready to efficiently and appropriately review applications for new reactors," said Scott Burnell, an NRC spokesperson.

"We're confident that this novel approach is going to improve the prospects of our projects being delivered on cost and on schedule," said Mike Laufer, CEO and co-founder of Kairos.

Nuclear reactors to be "delivered on cost and on schedule" A bold statement to be sure.

And still more:
Amazon goes nuclear!

 

[thebeave]

Constellation Energy, will be restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor to sell the power to Microsoft for, what else, power hungry AI data centers. They expect to be on line by 2028 if all goes well with the NRC.

Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down in 2022 hopes to restart the in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“We’ve been using all of the tools in our tool belt to support the nuclear energy sector, keep reactors online, and to bring them back, and to finance advanced reactor deployment as well,” David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy

Well that's something. I don't know what thing, but something.

More of a thing:
Google said it has agreed to buy a total of 500 megawatts of power from six to seven reactors

Google said by committing to a so-called order book framework with Kairos, instead of buying one reactor at a time, it is sending a demand signal to the market and making a long-term investment to speed development of SMRs.

"The NRC is ready to efficiently and appropriately review applications for new reactors," said Scott Burnell, an NRC spokesperson.

"We're confident that this novel approach is going to improve the prospects of our projects being delivered on cost and on schedule," said Mike Laufer, CEO and co-founder of Kairos.

Nuclear reactors to be "delivered on cost and on schedule" A bold statement to be sure.

And still more:
Amazon goes nuclear!

I hope this succeeds and helps restart the nuclear power industry in the US. Now if we can just keep Jane Fonda and her fellow lefty malinformed anti-nuclear nutter friends out of this...

 

[TV and credit cards]

Constellation Energy, will be restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor to sell the power to Microsoft for, what else, power hungry AI data centers. They expect to be on line by 2028 if all goes well with the NRC.

Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, shut down in 2022 hopes to restart the in the fourth quarter of 2025.

“We’ve been using all of the tools in our tool belt to support the nuclear energy sector, keep reactors online, and to bring them back, and to finance advanced reactor deployment as well,” David Turk, deputy secretary at the Department of Energy

Well that's something. I don't know what thing, but something.

More of a thing:
Google said it has agreed to buy a total of 500 megawatts of power from six to seven reactors

Google said by committing to a so-called order book framework with Kairos, instead of buying one reactor at a time, it is sending a demand signal to the market and making a long-term investment to speed development of SMRs.

"The NRC is ready to efficiently and appropriately review applications for new reactors," said Scott Burnell, an NRC spokesperson.

"We're confident that this novel approach is going to improve the prospects of our projects being delivered on cost and on schedule," said Mike Laufer, CEO and co-founder of Kairos.

Nuclear reactors to be "delivered on cost and on schedule" A bold statement to be sure.

And still more:
Amazon goes nuclear!

I hope this succeeds and helps restart the nuclear power industry in the US. Now if we can just keep Jane Fonda and her fellow lefty malinformed anti-nuclear nutter friends out of this...

I think it has a lot of momentum behind it as the need is there. We've been able to maintain our power consumption at a steady rate up until 2020 through efficiencies like LED bulbs but since then power consumption has been on the rise. In the US, data centers are expected to go from their current 3% to 8% of total power consumption by 2030 with a total rise in US consumption of 2.4%. It's not just data centers but industrial reshoring that is contributing to this need.
This AP article provides some perspective.
I think the naysayers will be a small group likely to get drowned out tout suite.