Many power-to-x firms and energy exporting companies are looking at Japan especially, but also other hydrocarbon light countries as a great market to send ammonia to as an energy carrier. That’s not going to end well. Why not? Let’s start with ammonia itself. It’s hydrogen and nitrogen. The nitrogen doesn’t … [continued]
Another week comes and goes. What big and fun cleantech stories from the past week do we need to highlight? Here’s what I’ve got! What future is coming? Well, this one is more about news in 11 years than it is about news in the past week, but it’s an … [continued]
There’s been a lot of great pumped hydro news from around the world in the past month, so a bit of a round up is in order. As a reminder, pumped hydro is the gravity storage solution that actually works, unlike concrete blocks, elevators and hillside rail systems. We’ve been … [continued]
Legacy forms of electrical generation are going to diminish radically in significance. Total energy requirements are going to halve. Renewable generation will dominate. Grids will become even more important. Storage will be everywhere.
Australia still has a large agricultural industry (in between the mines, that is), and all of these properties have dams, for irrigation of crops and for watering livestock. Around the various dams, there is a lot of space. What if these dams could be used to generate and store electricity? … [continued]
Someone should look seriously at Red Hill and do more than this napkin math. 140 MWh of high-efficiency storage that reuses existing infrastructure isn’t something that should be dismissed out of hand.
The 13 grid storage technologies should be five, and that’s why one of the biggest barriers to progress right now is confusion over the optimal technology to pick.
Assessment Shows Global Warming Potential Lowest Among Technologies Studied
China is building pumped-storage hydropower facilities to increase the flexibility of the power grid and accommodate growing wind and solar power. As of May 2023, China had 50 gigawatts (GW) of operational pumped-storage capacity, 30% of global capacity and more than any other country. China’s pumped-storage capacity is set to increase even … [continued]
It’s almost like this is an ideologically motivated witch hunt that’s completely baseless. It’s almost like Alberta hates getting any good press.
