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Here in Australia one of our most popular Energy Transition podcasts - that regularly interviews politicians and CEOs from different energy and tech companies - has concluded we may not need much pumped hydro at all. The main thing seems to be getting the HVDC in to increase the "Law of large n...

Yes - Tesla's in a bad way and now the tarif wars start. IRA killed globalisation - and started the race to "De-risking" from Chinese supply and protectionism. (Gosh - I sound like a Neo-lib talking like that - I'm Social Liberal I swear!) The weird and slightly disappointing thing about I...

Yes - no doubt there will be hiccups as the Energy Transition rolls out.

Fantastic! A whole load of unrecyclable Chinese cars is just what we need. Who said anything about unrecycled? "Black Mass" is the new gold. Google it. I suggest that you search "Black Mass EV" otherwise you get an entirely different thing. Australia is a place that would benefi...

Default0ptions wrote: ↑08 Mar 2024, 20:43 Fantastic! A whole load of unrecyclable Chinese cars is just what we need.

Who said anything about unrecycled? "Black Mass" is the new gold. Google it.

I don't know what I'm reading... this is Solein's press release and at one point the factory could still have a few months to be opening, but at another point it seems to be saying something launched 18th Jan. 18th January, 2024 Solein® debuts in Singapore retail stores with Fazer’s snack bar The ne...

Are you kidding - Solein is now selling? That is the best news I've had in months! Solein? That's my favourite PF as it doesn't require crops. Admittedly - it's only 2% of this chocolate bar - but that's the whole point. It can go into so many kinds of products. And the more it scales up - hopefully...

Yes - I remember it from Frederick Phol's "Gateway" series. CHON - with the raw ingredients mined directly from asteroids etc to feed the earth. This system with hydrogenotrophs sounds similar because they do need to be fed some minerals. The thing that amazes me about all this is we've by...

Tyre pollution is slightly higher from EVs than the equivalent sized ICE car, but brake dust is far less due to regenerative braking. Of course, all cars are too big and too fast for their actual function, moving usually one adult from A to B in reasonable time. Agreed. My potential-son-in-law is s...

What is required is a standardised battery pack that can be swapped out easily and swapped between makes of cars as well. It's a similar situation to sustainable housing where generally a house is designed to look nice in the architects eye and then is sent to someone else to "make it sustaina...

Interesting! Coire Glas power station is a proposed 1.5GW pumped storage hydroelectric power station in the Scottish Highlands. If built, it will double the UK's ability to store energy for long periods. [1] [2] Depending on final design, the power station would have a generating capacity of up to 1...

Yeah - 85 metres ain't high. "Triple the head, halve the cost" is the rule - according to those who know such things. :wink: Andrew Blakers basically says don't bother unless you're talking 500 m. I'm just in the middle of something - anyone got time to look up the UK's ocean PHES potentia...

Rationing plastic back to essentials would be awesome - we use too much of the stuff. I say restaurants should BAN the sale of plastic water bottles - water out of the tap and a bunch of glasses should be everywhere. Buying water like that is obscene - it's 3000 TIMES more expensive than out of the ...

I don't have any updates on the UK. Indeed - I'm no engineer but I get the feeling from the tone of certain news reports and international organisations like the IRENA and IEA that governments and energy utilities are just beginning to wake up to the fact that they really need to get cracking on the...

Factories give me hope. The number of solar factories being built now that open in 2025 will quadruple output from 2022. The number of battery gigafactories being built right now is staggering. America's getting so many THEY will have the capacity to build 100% EV's by 2030, or at least split it hal...