Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: The solar and wind industries are both heavily dependent of government and consumer subsidies. When those subsidies are modified or withdrawn the industries suffer massive constrictions. Solar and wind employment is a little like a gold …
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There is no doubt that electric transportation will make terrific headway over the coming couple of decades. Here, Forbes suggests that one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs. Fair enough. But the author goes on …
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Frequent commenter Frank Eggers calls our attention to an article on the development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) in China, and points to this excerpt: “Professor Li, director of the project’s molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said …
I’m delighted to announce that a razor-sharp graduate student at USC, Nikita Rao, will be joining us at 2GreenEnergy as an intern. Her master’s program focused on the electric power industry, a topic that I know we’d all like to …
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In a piece I wrote yesterday on clean energy power density, I mentioned that renewable resources do, in fact, come with a number of limitations, owing mainly to the fact that the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light we receive at ground level from …
Here’s an article about renewable energy power density, i.e., the amount of power available in a certain area, measured perhaps in Watts per square meter. The article makes the point that, as the world’s population continues to move to the …
