Black Bloke
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It's an orchestra. Battery cells feed packs, which feed the modules, then inverters - then to the grid. Per site there are hundreds to hundreds of millions of cells - each firing slightly uniquely.

Apply that across a power grid, a nation, and a planet - and we have many billions of performers.
All I want for Christmas is an orchestra of energy storage
Chemical battery storage, led by lithium, has made such significant strides in terms of cost, capacity and technology that batteries are now positioned to accelerate our already exponential solar g…
pv-magazine-usa.com
December 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Good morning with good news: Coal deliveries to US coal plants are down ~65% since 2008. Why?

Coal plants are running less and closing, with 13 GW more forecast to close in 2025!

Coal fell from 50% of daily US electricity in 2005 to often less than 15% now!
#energysky
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December 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history.

Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life.

But it's not over.

A thread.
December 2, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Words to live by
November 25, 2024 at 1:22 PM