#California exceeds 100% of #energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

Source: https://electrek.co/2024/04/15/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/

#usa #environment #climate #news #Solar

California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days

In a major clean energy benchmark, wind, solar, and hydro exceeded 100% of demand on California's main grid for 30 of the past 38 days.

^{Michelle Lewis (Electrek)}

#Solar #ClimateSolutions

Also, it might reduce evaporation considerably, conserving more water in reservoirs and reducing humidity and thus posdibly flashfloods.--hypothesis.

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

We have some domestic #solar production.

Currently, the U.S. PV manufacturing industry has the capacity to produce PV modules to meet nearly a third of today’s domestic demand, but has gaps for solar glass and in the crystalline silicon value chain for the wafer and cell segments.

It's fine if we allow the developing economies access to lower cost PV while we build out a vital national security domestic manufacturing industry that's been neglected.

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

Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they can’t."

Here's their review of Brett Christophers’s "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet."

(Subscription may be required) https://flip.it/LT82MB

#ClimateChange #Solar #Wind #Climate #Capitalism

Why Wind and Solar Won't Solve Climate Change

A new book unwittingly makes the case that they can’t.

^{Ted Nordhaus (Foreign Policy)}

Nice sunny day picture of my #meshtastic node as installed.

#lora #ham #hamradio #solar #rakwireless

Finally, an actual good idea about use of the former Nevada Test Site (now #NNSS).

-Cover the heavily irradiated landscape with solar panels. Allow the unusable soil to be covered with renewable energy production.

#NTS #solar #climate @sts

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/nuclear-test-site-cleanup-clean-energy/

The US government wants to transform nuclear bomb test sites — and six companies have offered to help

The U.S. government is exploring a unique way to turn former nuclear test sites into renewable energy powerhouses.

^{Leslie Sattler (The Cool Down)}

With bad weather, I had time to solder a SH connector to the 6W solar panel. Then I formed aluminum L-channels for mounting the panel to my #meshtastic node. Very light weight, <$20 including the panel and STRONG. The ABS pipe will break before this solar mount will.

#lora #ham #hamradio #solar #rakwireless

So. That was impressive. Here’s a quick sample from the backyard. Of note: temperature drop from 79.3 to 74.8, #solar production from the panels dropped to 0 and the house draw from the grid was the usual constant 420 watts, once the sun started coming back out the panels ramped back up, the temperature continued to drop for a few minutes to 74.5 but finally started edging up, and the dog could give a shit and just wandered around sniffing like usual.

Wow. The pictures don’t do it justice. Jupiter was visible to the left and Venus to the right (not in picture).

#eclipse #totality #texas #eclipse2024

Fake Eclipse Glasses, part TWO! This video tests if they block UV light:
https://youtu.be/-rrB50Zk5oU

#solar #eclipse #solareclipse2024