Energy/Power Generation News and Debate

[Pimpernel Smith]

Solar panels that can generate electricity at night have been developed at Stanford

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.

www.npr.org

Read between the lines...it's very limited i.e. the energy produced is negligible.

We need to be honest: solar panels at night...indeed.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Read between the lines...it's very limited i.e. the energy produced is negligible.

We need to be honest: solar panels at night...indeed.

A team of engineers at Stanford University have developed a solar cell that can generate some electricity at night.

"Our approach can provide nighttime standby lighting and power in off-grid and mini-grid applications, where [solar] cell installations are gaining popularity," the study said.

Mini-grid applications refer to independent electricity networks. These can be used when a population is too small or too far away to extend the grid.

i've highlighted some of the important details in the story that you seem to have skipped over. must have been an oversight on your part.

 

[Fwiffo]

Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns

US climate envoy John Kerry warns the world is "cooked" if countries continue using coal.

www.bbc.com

Buy your clean and ethical power elsewhere.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns

US climate envoy John Kerry warns the world is "cooked" if countries continue using coal.

www.bbc.com

Buy your clean and ethical power elsewhere.

Ah yes, the most important issue of inducing energy poverty, Net Zero bankruptcy and food insecurity for the masses.

 

[Fwiffo]

Ah yes, the most important issue of inducing energy poverty, Net Zero bankruptcy and food insecurity for the masses.

The environmentally sound choice is to continue using Russian natural gas over dirty coal.

 

[Grand Potentate]

French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse

The cost of electricity in France jumped, adding to Europe’s gas woes, as depressed nuclear output squeezes the market.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Latest Finland reactor delay raises winter power supply concerns

Another two-month delay at Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, which was originally due to start operations in 2009, poses a risk to power supply this winter in the absence of Russian imports, grid operator Fingrid said on Thursday.

www.reuters.com

fucking thing started building in 2009!

 

[Fwiffo]

The simplest answer is to buy Russian energy. It is cheaper. Plentiful. China and India do it too.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Dutch power grid can't handle influx of electric car charging points

By 2025, there will be some 3,000 neighborhoods in the Netherlands where no new electric car charging points can be installed, knowledge center ElaadNL said to BNR. The growing demand for electric vehicles and accompanying charging stations is quickly overloading the power grid, grid operators...

nltimes.nl

Pimpernel Smith

i found this paragraph revealing:

Grid operator Stedin also told BNR that the government must invest heavily in the rollout of smart charging “otherwise the grid will be too crowded.” The other option is to upgrade the power grid. “But that costs a lot of money and is a social choice. So we’d rather not do that.”

why is there no "social choice" option here?

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Dutch power grid can't handle influx of electric car charging points

By 2025, there will be some 3,000 neighborhoods in the Netherlands where no new electric car charging points can be installed, knowledge center ElaadNL said to BNR. The growing demand for electric vehicles and accompanying charging stations is quickly overloading the power grid, grid operators...

nltimes.nl

Pimpernel Smith

i found this paragraph revealing:



why is there no "social choice" option here?

There's a failure here, as elsewhere, with the political class. They have grandiose visions such as ''...smart charging to be the norm from 2025'' really? With no plan, infrastructure budget or technology to achieve it. It's all going very Soviet and the public are realizing this and getting sussed and pissed-off.

Like Germany the Dutch are refiring the coal fire stations, but they keep that quiet. Meanwhile the largest deposit of natural gas in Europe, the Groningen field, is effectively mothballed.

It's all fluff, smoke and mirrors to hide the rapidly disintegrating energy security and cheap energy situation.

Friday, I was at a meeting for a project offshore in Brazil. This one project, one field, is over $5 billion. Compare and contrast with the Green stuff and there's no comparison. The energy density and returns from oil & gas is mega and meanwhile the government will state €5 million here and there and €50 million here for hydrogen. It's all way down the line yet, decades, not this 2025 or 2030 nonsense.

 

[Grand Potentate]

With no plan, infrastructure budget or technology to achieve it. It's all going very Soviet and the public are realizing this and getting sussed and pissed-off.

interesting. why do you think there is no political inclination to be the one/party to stand up and propose a grand plan? if everyone's getting ticked off you'd think some enterprising politician on the left/green/democratic side would jump at the opportunity to plant their flag.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

interesting. why do you think there is no political inclination to be the one/party to stand up and propose a grand plan? if everyone's getting ticked off you'd think some enterprising politician on the left/green/democratic side would jump at the opportunity to plant their flag.

The problem is, in most cases the political class are not from hard science or engineering backgrounds. So at the starting gate, they're not qualified.

 

[Grand Potentate]

The problem is, in most cases the political class are not from hard science or engineering backgrounds. So at the starting gate, they're not qualified.

True but I’m sure you have a department of energy or science or other resources the government can tap. I’m all for winging it in a speech but if the power company says we need more power then you need to get those solar panels and wind farms up and running.

 

[Fwiffo]

Like Germany the Dutch are refiring the coal fire stations, but they keep that quiet. Meanwhile the largest deposit of natural gas in Europe, the Groningen field, is effectively mothballed.

You can now hide using coal as diversifying from Russia. I'm sure you'll also get relief from abiding by commitments to the Paris accords.