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Zero Net Energy – October 20, 2022

October 20, 2022 By gmoke

An energy rule of thumb is one third of energy goes to buildings, one third goes to industry, one third goes to transportation. The technology is certainly available to reduce the energy that goes to buildings drastically, nearly to zero … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, buildings, ecology, electricity, energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency, environment, insulation, sustainability

Energy as a System, Systems as Synergy

September 4, 2022 By gmoke

MIT has designed a program which maximizes the production of wind farms by operating the wind farm as a system, not individual wind turbines. Reducing downwind turbulence within the whole wind farm can increase energy production by 1.2% to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Donella Meadows, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, r-buckminster-fuller, renewables, sustainability, synergy, systems, thermodynamics, windpower

Studying 100% Renewable Energy Studies

August 23, 2022 By gmoke

the war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it. Diane di Prima, “Rant" On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910) is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, electricity, energy, environment, futures, renewables, solar, sustainability, windpower

Electric Appliances as Virtual Power Plants

January 5, 2022 By gmoke

“We’re thinking we can turn water heaters, refrigerators, thermostats, electric vehicles and batteries into virtual power plants [VPPs]” to help balance the grid's increasing clean electricity, Jigar Shah, director of the DOE Loan Programs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: DER, doe, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, sustainability, VPP

Planning the Energy Transition

December 23, 2020 By gmoke

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve run across what might be a few really useful reports on the energy transition. The Lancet is doing an annual climate countdown report to monitor our progress. Here is this year’s edition: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, co2, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, greenhouse-gases, infrastructure, sustainability

Grid-scale Battery: The Tesla System in Australia

June 18, 2019 By gmoke

Remember when Elon Musk offered to build a grid-scale battery for Southern Australia in "100 days or it’s free"? He made good on his bet, installing it on time for the cost of $66 million in December of 2017. According to a report on its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: Australia, batteries, climate-change, ecology, electricity, energy, environment, solar-energy, sustainability, Tesla, wind-energy

Building New Renewables Cheaper than Operating Existing Coal Plants

December 18, 2018 By gmoke

Rocky Mountain Institute had a webinar on “The Energy Future Is Now” on December 13: "Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Jules Kortenhorst, electricity expert Leia Guccione, and Marketing Director Kelly Vaughn discuss the urgency facing today's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: electricity, energy, sustainability, wind

Ann Berwick states the obvious: “Natural gas is not a clean fuel”

May 23, 2018 By Charley on the MTA

Just to amplify another experienced, reality-based voice calling out the Boston Globe for its series (!) of pro-pipeline editorials. This time it's former Department of Public Utilities chair Ann Berwick -- but stop me if you've heard this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: electricity, energy, natural-gas, pipelines, renewables

Zero Net Energy – May 14, 2018

May 14, 2018 By gmoke

Design for World’s First Energy Positive Hotel in the Arctic Circle https://snohetta.com/projects/366-svart https://inhabitat.com/snohetta-unveils-designs-for-worlds-first-energy-positive-hotel-in-the-arctic-circle/ Editorial Comment: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: architecture, city planning, climate-change, ecology, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, environment

MIT Energy Hackathon: Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes

October 31, 2017 By gmoke

The content committee for the MIT Energy Hackathon, November 3-5, has accepted my challenge on "Rebuilding Energy Infrastructure in the Caribbean After the Hurricanes.” With luck, an extremely knowledgeable and expert team of MIT and other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: disaster, electricity, energy, hackathon, mit, renewables, solar, wind

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