The war against renewable energy
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Both are possible and at scale and it’s happening now.
The % of renewables in the grid world wide is increasing at an exponential rate… which means renewables are producing renewables.
I wish you were right but no;
Solar panels are made with coal/gas power, the cement for wind turbines is all fossil fuels(let alone the petrochemicals in the blades)
The copper required for both is all mined by diesel machines and the ore is transported by bunker fuelled boats, the refining is done by coal based power mostly.
Renewables have done really well and let's keep going with the electrification, we must be honest with the manufacturing process. Can't just hand wave it away by a percentage
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What a load of rubbish … of course you can.
If 60% of renewable power is used for the production of a million solar panels .. then 600,000 panels were made from renewables.
It’s called mathematics…
Copper mine in Chile…
BHP cancels coal contracts, goes 100 per cent renewables at huge Chile copper mines | RenewEconomy
BHP cancels existing coal contracts and commits to going 100 per cent renewables at its huge Chile copper mines, to save money and emissions.
reneweconomy.com.au
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Big batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.
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Found this one interesting,batteries continuing to eat into gas, as expected.
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Remember when people argued renewables were more expensive??? Idiots
Records being Brocken 6 weeks before the shortest day of the year.
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Records being Brocken 6 weeks before the shortest day of the year.
Big batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.
reneweconomy.com.au
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Beat me by 1 minuteBig batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.
Found this one interesting,batteries continuing to eat into gas, as expected.
Your commentary was better
it not that surprising, but it's note worthy the huge development we are seeing in batteriesRemember when people argued renewables were more expensive??? Idiots
Records being Brocken 6 weeks before the shortest day of the year.
Big batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.
It feels like every week we have new development that pushes the limits.
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The way we're going we'll "sacrifice" more than that for housing instead.
Maybe we can put solar panels on Gina's butt.
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Remember when people argued renewables were more expensive??? Idiots
Records being Brocken 6 weeks before the shortest day of the year.
Big batteries leap to new charging record, displace gas in evening peaks
The recent addition of a number of new big battery projects is being felt on the grid, with a big leap in the record for battery charging over the weekend.
Or Dutton Morrison Joyce lining up to sink the slipper into SA energy strategy
Funny how they no longer do that, except to lie like bandits
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I was meaning the limit to industrialised work rather than the lack of social movement
Last year saw renewables reach 30% of total world energy production. It was 5.9% in 2009.
www.theguardian.com
Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply
Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises
While an impressive stat, CO2 and related related emssions are at an all time high.Last year saw renewables reach 30% of total world energy production. It was 5.9% in 2009.
Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply
Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises
You can deduce from this that the growth in energy is being provided for by renewables but the fossil fuels aren't decreasing. The high energy demand of things like cloud storage and AI are terrible additions
Without a decrease in energy consumption this is all useless, also as usual see Jevons paradox, efficiency can't save us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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So we are looking at extinction driver right now?
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NSW energy grid struggled today.. I did my bit by exporting all my battery into the grid during peak time…
Don’t get a house battery they said… they aren’t worth it they said.
Not bad for 1 day.
Don’t get a house battery they said… they aren’t worth it they said.
Not bad for 1 day.
Yes?
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lol… how?
It’s not my fault the LNP didn’t have an energy policy for 9 years…
This spike was caused by coal plants going offline ..: NSW was also isolated from Vic… my battery, along with a few thousand more, linked to AMBER electricity were working in tandem to actually increase the supply of power during a spike period … if anything it helped renters by bringing the spot price down.
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