Why putting #solarpanels beside #highways is a no-brainer!
#California could generate enough #electricity to power 270,000 homes by putting solar panels in the empty land next to highway interchanges in just 3 Southern California counties.There is a lot of “dead” space between highways, which is currently not used for much of anything. It’s not a usable space for wildlife, either, due to the proximity of so many cars. These locations are often near #transmissionlines
https://electrek.co/2023/08/31/why-putting-solar-panels-beside-highways-is-a-no-brainer/

Again, #cryptocurrency mining is a way some people try to make money by shifting the cost of their bad behavior onto other people. Pollution, money laundering for organized crime, ransomware, scams, support for rogue states like Russia and North Korea: that's what cryptocurrency is.

Here, #Texas power authorities paid a cryptocurrency mining company $31.7 million last month to use less power:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/07/texas_crypto_mining_outfit_energy/
https://www.riotplatforms.com/investors/news-events/press-releases/detail/159/riot-announces-august-2023-production-and-operations-updates

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#energy #electricity #subsidies #ERCOT

Scientists Control #Human #DNA with #Electricity in 'Leap Forward', Study Reports
In a novel experiment, researchers were able to trigger #insulin production in human #cells by sending electrical currents through an “electrogenetic” interface that activates targeted #genes. Future applications of this interface could be developed to deliver therapeutic doses to treat a wide range of conditions, including #diabetes, by directly controlling human DNA with electricity.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yjnx/scientists-control-human-dna-with-electricity-in-leap-forward-study-reports

@electrek This is great news for energy customers in the Northeast and the grid overall. Hopefully our Tesla solar and powerwall install will be complete soon and we'll be able to join a program when it comes to #NewJersey. I love to see these kind of partnerships that are win win for consumers and electric utilities #Electricity #CleanEnergy #Tesla

Here's how #extremeheat can impact the grid and #renewables – and what's being done to protect them
#Heatwaves can also impair efficiency of power generation and transmission. Both renewable and conventional #powerplants may operate less efficiently under high temperatures. Likewise, #electricity #transmissionlines can lose efficiency due to higher resistive losses at elevated temperatures. Battery systems, particularly #lithiumion, can suffer in high temperatures as well
https://electrek.co/2023/07/19/extreme-heat-grid-renewables/

First U.S. #nuclearreactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in #Georgia
Georgia Power announced Monday that they #nuclear reactor Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably. At its full output of 1,100 megawatts of electricity, Unit 3 can power 500,000 homes and businesses. Utilities in Georgia, Florida and Alabama are receiving the #electricity. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-scratch-decades-enters-commercial-opera-rcna97258

World's first #offshorewind–#greenhydrogen pilot
#Wind-generated #electricity can power water #electrolysis – process of using electricity to split water into #hydrogen & oxygen – to produce green hydrogen.
#French green hydrogen company #Lhyfe announced that its offshore wind–green hydrogen pilot, a 200-square-meter platform called #Sealhyfe, has produced first kilos of green hydrogen. The hydrogen pilot project will be able to produce 400kg (882lb) of hydrogen daily.
https://electrek.co/2023/06/30/worlds-first-offshore-wind-green-hydrogen-pilot/

#USSR Sprinkled More Than 2,500 #Nuclear Generators Across Countryside
Hundreds of tiny atomic terrors are still unaccounted for in rugged landscape of #SovietUnion. They work by converting heat caused by #radioactive decay into #electricity. Due to dangerous materials used, countries like America only use RTGs in applications such as space exploration. These probes however, use expensive plutonium-238 as their power sources and we launch them far the hell away from us.
https://jalopnik.com/ussr-sprinkled-more-than-2-500-nuclear-generators-acros-1850501190

Tips from the energy company to conserve electricity include: "run your ceiling fans counterclockwise".

I should look into how one goes about doing that.

#heatwave #electricity #energy #conservation

#OffGrid #solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages
775 million people around the world didn't have #electricity last year, according to the International Energy Agency. But the Associated Press points out that's changing in some of the world's most remote places — thanks to off-grid solar systems.
https://apnews.com/article/offgrid-solar-electrification-indonesia-0991d77d68f879c4daa12e7d3dfd97ee

#RooftopSolar could power up to 35% of US #manufacturing
Researchers found that rooftop #solar arrays could completely fulfill the #electricity requirement of 5% to 35% of US manufacturing sectors. Further, manufacturing companies across nearly 40% of US locations could fulfill their electricity needs in the spring and summer with rooftop solar arrays. ors.
https://electrek.co/2023/05/11/rooftop-solar-us-manufacturing/

This #geothermal startup showed its wells can be used like a giant underground #battery
#Fervo can create flexible geothermal #powerplants, capable of ramping #electricity output up or down as needed. Potentially more important, the system can store up energy for hours or even days and deliver it back over similar period
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/07/1069437/this-geothermal-startup-showed-its-wells-can-be-used-like-a-giant-underground-battery/

@pallenberg Sehr interessante Grafik! In diesem Zusammenhang erlaube ich mir auf meinen Bot hinzuweisen 😀. Der postet täglich die in Deutschland erzeugte Solarenergie: @solarticker

#germany #solar #solarpanels #solarpower #pv #photovoltaik #photovoltaikanlage #electricity

Recently I launched a bot, which posts daily the solar power generation in Germany: @solarticker

#solar #solarpanels #solarpower #pv #photovoltaik #photovoltaikanlage #Electricity #germany

Today I launched my bot, which posts daily the amount of solar power generated in Germany: @solarticker

#solar #solarpanels #solarpower #pv #photovoltaik #photovoltaikanlage #electricity #germany

Happy to see our weekly #electricity usage is lower, although I don't think we did things much differently.

More importantly, rather than just passively get these updates each week from my energy provider *after* the fact, I'm looking into a new home energy monitoring solution that works with Home Assistant. Stay tuned! #smarthome #IoT

#Sweden is preparing legislation to allow the construction of more #nucleapower stations to boost #electricity production in the Nordic country and bolster energy security, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said
https://reut.rs/3INNssC #nuclearreactor #nuclear #NuclearEnergy

Articles on "Electricity" WJ Beaty

These are the absolute best explanations of all topics surrounding “#electricity” and #electronics I’ve ever read. Ever feel the explanations of electrons flowing through wires didn’t quite add up? This explains it all.

http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html

“New #research shows that protein filaments from a #microbe called Geobacter sulfurrenducens can be made into a paper-thin device that pulls #electricity from humid air” https://now.northropgrumman.com/energy-harvesting-tech-pulls-electricity-from-the-air/

“#Windpower is abundantly harvested in states run by Republican governments and over land owned by climate-sceptic ranchers. The message they prefer is a more #freemarket one: that wind and #solar are increasingly competitive sources of #energy, help reduce #electricity costs, foster #entrepreneurship”

Lessons for liberals from climate-sceptic wind ranchers https://www.economist.com/business/2023/01/12/go-to-texas-to-see-the-anti-green-future-of-clean-energy #climate #renewable #Texas #cleanenergy #greenenergy