HISTORIC EXPANSION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES REWRITING FUTURE OF GLOBAL ELECTRICITY
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Ya but aren't you the magat idiot who also believes EV battery technology is frozen in time at where it is today and that all the top VC's spending billions, all the top Auto makers and scientists making break thru's in testing tech that will massively improve the tech, are all wrong and you know better that no such advancement will be mad, in the same way Marjorie Greene, is always telling experts she knows better based on what she read on the internet?
You magats make my point and are the basis of my sig.
Joe Capitalist
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China builds up electric power in Gobi and western deserts equal to half US capacity
Chinese rocket scientist Qian Xuesen long ago envisioned harnessing vast renewable energy resources of the desert to power the nation
Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:00
MIn the vast expanse of the Gobi and other deserts in northwestern China, a “world-leading” electricity production and transmission network is taking shape, according to Chinese scientists.
The engineering feat pumps cheap, clean power into the heart of Chinese manufacturing, raising the country’s living standards and bolstering China’s competitiveness in hi-tech races such as AI.
The scientists and engineers at the helm of this energy revolution estimate that the existing installed capacity for power generation in northwestern China is almost 500 gigawatts. When combined with the significant Gobi Desert area in nearby Inner Mongolia, the figure is 600GW.
In comparison, all United States power plants combined produced about 1,100GW at the end of 2022, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
Furthermore, more than half these energy facilities in northwestern China are fuelled by forces of nature: wind and solar energy. Despite the unpredictability of renewable sources, these green power plants achieve an average utilisation efficiency over 95 per cent.
Until now, no other large regional power grid has seamlessly integrated such a substantial portion of renewable energy while maintaining such high utilisation rates throughout the year, according to the scientists.
T. A. Gardner
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China builds up electric power in Gobi and western deserts equal to half US capacity
Chinese rocket scientist Qian Xuesen long ago envisioned harnessing vast renewable energy resources of the desert to power the nation
Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 11:00
In the vast expanse of the Gobi and other deserts in northwestern China, a “world-leading” electricity production and transmission network is taking shape, according to Chinese scientists.
The engineering feat pumps cheap, clean power into the heart of Chinese manufacturing, raising the country’s living standards and bolstering China’s competitiveness in hi-tech races such as AI.
The scientists and engineers at the helm of this energy revolution estimate that the existing installed capacity for power generation in northwestern China is almost 500 gigawatts. When combined with the significant Gobi Desert area in nearby Inner Mongolia, the figure is 600GW.
In comparison, all United States power plants combined produced about 1,100GW at the end of 2022, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
Furthermore, more than half these energy facilities in northwestern China are fuelled by forces of nature: wind and solar energy. Despite the unpredictability of renewable sources, these green power plants achieve an average utilisation efficiency over 95 per cent.
Until now, no other large regional power grid has seamlessly integrated such a substantial portion of renewable energy while maintaining such high utilisation rates throughout the year, according to the scientists.
You aren't getting it. Just because nations are building wind and solar doesn't mean it is a good economic choice. In fact, it's clearly being demonstrated wind and solar are terrible economic choices. You are ignoring that. Wind and solar are ungodly expensive ways to generate electricity.
Joe Capitalist
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So you think you know more about solar than these countries who are going all in?
Why would they take on these huge investments if it wasn't economical?
Methinks you're extreme far right bias is working overtime again.
Joe Capitalist
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Toyota invests another $1.3B in US factory to build all-new, 3-row electric SUV
Toyota is pumping $1.3 billion more into its North American factories as it brings EV production to its Kentucky plant. That production will include the bZ4X — the company’s all-electric SUV which is currently in its second model year. Toyota’s American factory will also assemble a new three-row SUV, the exact details of which have yet to be announced. That new SUV is designed to be sold in the U.S. market.
The money is part of over $17 billion that Toyota says it is investing in its U.S. manufacturing operations as it gets ready to begin producing electric vehicles en masse. The Japanese company has invested nearly $10 billion in the plant since operations began there in 1986.
Kerry Creech, president of Toyota Kentucky, stated that the announcement “reflects our commitment to vehicle electrification and further reinvesting in our U.S. operations” before adding, “Generations of our team members helped prepare for this opportunity, and we will continue leading the charge into the future by remaining true to who we are as a company and putting our people first for generations to come.”
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Toyota is pumping $1.3 billion more into its North American factories as it brings EV production to its Kentucky plant. That production will include the bZ4X — the company’s all-electric SUV which is currently in its second model year. Toyota’s American factory will also assemble a new three-row SUV, the exact details of which have yet to be announced. That new SUV is designed to be sold in the U.S. market.
The money is part of over $17 billion that Toyota says it is investing in its U.S. manufacturing operations as it gets ready to begin producing electric vehicles en masse. The Japanese company has invested nearly $10 billion in the plant since operations began there in 1986.
Kerry Creech, president of Toyota Kentucky, stated that the announcement “reflects our commitment to vehicle electrification and further reinvesting in our U.S. operations” before adding, “Generations of our team members helped prepare for this opportunity, and we will continue leading the charge into the future by remaining true to who we are as a company and putting our people first for generations to come.”
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Joe Capitalist
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First large-scale offshore wind farm in U.S., off Massachusetts coast, has started delivering electricity
Vineyard Wind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62 wind turbines, company and state officials said Thursday.
The five turbines are operating at full capacity, generating 68 megawatts of power — enough to power about 30,000 homes, according to company officials, who described it as the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the nation to begin initial operations.
The Vineyard Wind project is located 15 miles (24 kilometers) off Martha’s Vineyard and is projected to generate electricity for more than 400,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses when it is fully operational.
It’s also expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 1.6 million metric tons per year, the equivalent of taking 325,000 cars off the road annually.
The project has installed nine turbines and is in the process of installing the 10th. Additional power will be delivered to the grid sequentially, with each turbine starting production once it completes the commissioning process.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said the delivery of power to the grid from the first five turbines “marks a turning point in the clean energy transition.”
“Across Massachusetts, in 30,000 homes and businesses, when you turn on the light, you will now be using clean, affordable energy,” she said in a statement. “This will make the air we breathe safer and healthier, save customers money, and bring us one step closer to achieving net-zero emissions.”
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US offshore wind projects facing inflation headwinds
Soaring costs from rising inflation, interest rate hikes and supply chain delays cast doubts on U.S. President Joe Biden administration's plans to deploy 30,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Some developers have cancelled power purchase contracts saying the previously agreed prices were too low to justify investments, but said they might re-bid in the future to continue the projects.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabil...ojects-facing-inflation-headwinds-2023-09-11/
Offshore wind in the U.S. hit headwinds in 2023. Here's what you need to know
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221...headwinds-in-2023-heres-what-you-need-to-know
Inflation, interest rates and whales: Why offshore wind projects are on the rocks
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/offshore-wind-delays-inflation-whales-climate/index.html
Offshore wind has proven unaffordable, and unbuildable. Consumers pay more for electricity when they have to buy wind power, not less. Wind is a disaster, but not nearly as big a one as solar. Solar remains the worst possible way to generate electricity on a mass scale there is.
Soaring costs from rising inflation, interest rate hikes and supply chain delays cast doubts on U.S. President Joe Biden administration's plans to deploy 30,000 megawatts (MW) of offshore wind by 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Some developers have cancelled power purchase contracts saying the previously agreed prices were too low to justify investments, but said they might re-bid in the future to continue the projects.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabil...ojects-facing-inflation-headwinds-2023-09-11/
Offshore wind in the U.S. hit headwinds in 2023. Here's what you need to know
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221...headwinds-in-2023-heres-what-you-need-to-know
Inflation, interest rates and whales: Why offshore wind projects are on the rocks
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/us/offshore-wind-delays-inflation-whales-climate/index.html
Offshore wind has proven unaffordable, and unbuildable. Consumers pay more for electricity when they have to buy wind power, not less. Wind is a disaster, but not nearly as big a one as solar. Solar remains the worst possible way to generate electricity on a mass scale there is.
T. A. Gardner
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The highlighted statement is a lie. Unless Massachusetts or various utilities can show where they decommissioned electrical power plants that produce 1.6 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year and that these wind turbines replaced them, then they didn't do that. They may not have created additional carbon emissions, but they don't reduce them unless they directly replaced carbon emitters.
Joe Capitalist
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COUPLE TAKE AN EV ALL THE WAY FROM THE SOUTH POLE TO THE NORTH POLE: 'ELECTRIC VEHICLES ARE THE WAY FORWARD'
"Our main goal is to inspire people." by Susan Elizabeth Turek*/*March 8, 2024
Santa Claus is known for being able to travel around the world in one night, but he may have a little competition after a couple drove an astounding 17,000 miles from the North Pole to the South Pole in an electric vehicle.
Chris and Julie Ramsey, who are from Scotland, made the record-breaking journey in a Nissan Ariya electric crossover SUV and completed the trek over nine months, arriving at the South Pole on Dec. 15, as detailed by TheStreet.*
"Our ambition is to capture hearts and minds and to show people that electric vehicles are the way forward," Chris said on the expedition's official website. "We want to demonstrate that electric vehicles are capable of taking us on an incredible journey and that they don't have to be seen as a sacrifice."
OMFG...
Are you really this stupid? That is like arguing that unless you sell your car you will always use the same amount of gasoline even if you simply park it in your garage for a year.
Unless you can show that Massachusetts is suddenly using more electricity then they are not getting electricity from carbon by reducing production from coal and gas plants. There is no need to decommission plants to reduce how much they are used.
T. A. Gardner
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Really? How'd they cross the S. Atlantic? How many support vehicles did they have accompany them to supply the electricity to recharge the vehicle where no charging was available? Aside from that it was nothing more than a publicity stunt, no doubt inspired by the original...