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Post by eclipse on Oct 6, 2015 9:38:25 GMT 9.5
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Post by eclipse on Oct 6, 2015 16:05:23 GMT 9.5
Double whammy of solar + storage agit prop today with the Climate Council putting this one out in my Facebook feed. Sometimes it's overwhelming and going against the 100% renewable grain I feel like some sort of anti-science climate denier.  |
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Post by Roger Clifton on Oct 8, 2015 8:42:16 GMT 9.5
At first glance, it would seem that that remote observatory is indeed 100% renewable powered. Why do you think otherwise? Tell us about those batteries!
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Post by eclipse on Oct 8, 2015 11:24:01 GMT 9.5
Hi Roger,
I'm not disagreeing with the fact of it, but the emphasis of it. What may be appropriate and economical in a distant, isolated, costly radio telescope is not appropriate or economical for the average Australian business or house. Yet the climate council trot out this sort of headline in a meme-generating frenzy that is pro-renewables and glibly assumes that one day we'll all live with solar batteries or go "100% renewables" like some little country town, even though it's actually "renewables equivalent" energy produced, averaged out over a year, of course buying from the coal fired grid when they need to.
It's the dishonesty of the memes that's getting to me.
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Post by singletonengineer on Oct 22, 2017 17:21:33 GMT 9.5
Two years later and the tide appears, perhaps and just maybe, to be turning if only a little.
This is in part due to the Federal Government's approach to the proposed NEG, National Energy Guarantee.
The Climate Council, though, has dug itself into a hole entirely of its own choosing regarding unreliable electricity generation technologies.
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Post by huon on Oct 25, 2017 10:09:10 GMT 9.5
The following article from the Conversation explains Australia's National Energy Guarantee very well, at least to one curious reader in the US. "How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target" theconversation.com/how-the-national-energy-guarantee-could-work-better-than-a-clean-energy-target-85821I also liked the conclusions: "The National Energy Guarantee is not the best policy solution. A carbon price imposed on electricity generators may have avoided the need for either of the two 'guarantees' contained in the NEG. But the political reality is that a carbon price of any sort is not going to be adopted in Australia any time soon. "So this is not a perfect solution, but it is better than what we have now. And importantly, it is supported by all members of the newly formed Energy Security Board. Opportunity knocks for this nation's politicians." |
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Post by Tenn on Apr 10, 2019 3:18:42 GMT 9.5
I have to agree with Eclipse. As a scientist, you value truth, facts, logic. It is truly baffling how the public and politicians have been misled on renewable energy and batteries. Individuals I work with are incredibly frustrated with the public perception. I see a lot of people who understand the science but not the business, or the business and not the science. Or neither.
Then you have people like Mark Jacobs, who (I think) either got his degree in a box of cereal, or is a bold faced liar, telling people just what they want to hear.
What is truly frustrating is that if you are absolutely convinced there is a climate crises, and an immediate need for action, then these fools and liars are your worst enemy, sucking up time and resources better spent elsewhere.
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Post by David B. Benson on May 22, 2019 16:54:47 GMT 9.5
The Story on Storage: Is It Truly Charging Ahead?
Tanya Bodell, Energyzt
2019 May 21
Power Engineering
is a remarkably even tempered article
regarding the role of the FERC in establishing a market for batteries, etc. No hype here.
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Post by cyrilr on May 22, 2019 21:56:23 GMT 9.5
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Post by cyrilr on May 23, 2019 16:24:44 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on May 23, 2019 16:49:55 GMT 9.5
The second post on the Australian Grid thread cites an article explaining how the Tesla battery in South Australia fulfilled it's role as a grid stabilizer on an exciting day in 2018.
But it is not there to energize the grid; different function.
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Post by Roger Clifton on May 24, 2019 14:52:17 GMT 9.5
CyrilR, pls give us a URL to your (information-full) figure and article, "The world's biggest battery is a complete dud"...
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Post by cyrilr on May 24, 2019 19:52:06 GMT 9.5
The second post on the Australian Grid thread cites an article explaining how the Tesla battery in South Australia fulfilled it's role as a grid stabilizer on an exciting day in 2018. But it is not there to energize the grid; different function. You know that, and I know that, but most people really think wind+solar+battery = 100% renewable. As Prof. Murphy showed in his Nation Sized Battery, this isn’t feasible. It is important that people understand what batteries can’t do. |
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Post by engineerpoet on May 25, 2019 0:29:58 GMT 9.5
Most people aren't technical and can't see through the cloud of squid ink that the greenies are blowing to cover for the emptiness of their claims. How do you get through to people that they're being sold an empty box, especially when they desperately want to believe the hype?
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Post by David B. Benson on Jun 25, 2019 17:37:12 GMT 9.5
Arizona fire highlights challenges for energy storage
Jonathan J. Cooper
2019 Jun 24
Power Engineering
Utility scale battery explodes and burns.
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