Let's take the Section 301 tariffs that impact our #EnergyTransition as an example. Joe Biden was able to get transformative legislation passed in a large part because he tied it together with helping to bring back American manufacturing jobs for compassionate as well as national security reasons.

Whether the cost to Americans from these tariffs greater than their benefit is a hard test to definitively answer so I wonder why so many people seem to know the answer better than Biden's experts?

Using AI to oversee dynamic fusion machines is a hot area of research. It doesn't mean generative AI like ChatGPT. It's old-school AI, where you train a machine to recognize patterns in complex real-world data then let it make decisions.

#AI #Fusion #Energy #EnergyTransition #Science #Research https://www.pppl.gov/news/2024/using-artificial-intelligence-speed-and-improve-most-computationally-intensive-aspects

Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are using artificial intelligence to perfect the design of the vessels surrounding the super-hot plasma, optimize heating methods and maintain stable control o…

^{Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory}

#Biden crackdown on #PowerPlants expected to speed shift away from coal https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4625164-biden-power-plants-crackdown-coal-renewables/

"experts say that instead of trying to meet these requirements, more #coal plants may just retire — and some power companies may opt to invest in #renewables... the rule could increase the amount of coal power that comes offline between 2028 and 2035 by nearly 25%"

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #USpol #Climate #FossilFuels

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One major climate message that we've really got to elevate above all others is that addressing global warming is way, way, way, way less expensive than ignoring it!

The cost of solar power has dropped around 90% over the past decade, and battery storage costs dropped 85% during the same period.

#ClimateSolutions #WeCanDoThis #VoteBlue #VoteClimate #Solar #Batteries #EnergyTransition
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/solar-plus-storage-101

Really interesting discussion of China's green/sustainable financing mechanisms (especially relative to the IRA In the US). Favorable financing for things you want, unfavorable for the things you don't. Financially it's a lot like a tax, but it's implemented by a different institution and paid far away from consumers. You can see how it might be politically different from a tax.

https://www.cleaningup.live/how-china-became-a-green-finance-superpower-ep160-dr-ma-jun/

#EnergyTransition #Finance

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https://mailchi.mp/3fdc78e462d1/energiomstllningen-2-maj-2024
#EnergyTransition #energitwitter #CleanEnergy

#EnergyTransition: Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/climate/biden-administration-moves-to-speed-up-permits-for-clean-energy.html #USpol

"The #Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for #CleanEnergy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the #climate and on #LowIncome communities before approving projects... This is a big deal because for the first time it prioritizes projects that have #ClimateChange and or #EnvironmentalJustice benefits"

"Lithium-ion battery prices have declined from USD 1,400 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to less than USD 140 per kilowatt-hour in 2023, one of the fastest cost declines of any energy technology ever, as a result of progress in research and development and economies of scale in manufacturing."

https://www.iea.org/reports/batteries-and-secure-energy-transitions/executive-summary
#Energy #EnergyTransition #Batteries #Grid #Power

Executive summary – Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions – Analysis - IEA

Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

^IEA

Did you know that putting floating solar on only 10% of the surface of all the reservoirs that humans have built could provide 110% of the electricity that we now are producing? Well, now you do.

#WeCanDoThis #Solar #PV #EnergyTransition

Autarky in the USA!*

*Except if you are getting your #solar cells from Korea.

Given that we make exactly zero solar cells in the United States at present, the latest solar trade case seems to have less to do with protecting U.S. manufacturing and more to do with QCells and First Solar shutting their competitors - including other American manufacturers - out of the market.

And every time we do this, it incrementally slows the #energytransition.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/u-s-solar-manufacturers-petitions-southeast-asia-00153994