Seasonal solar storage right there with that solar thermal setup

My favorite part was at the end where they basically said if we had to design this system from scratch would you rather drill for some explosive vapor, ship it across the country and burn it in your house or just move some water through pipes underground?

Time to stop burning things

Funny piece of EV history: the 12V is mainly used for closing the contactor to energize the high voltage pack. The AC Propulsion eBox had a backup 9V battery you could quickly use to close the contactor and "jump" the car. Why modern companies haven't replicated something similar is beyond me

Not sure I agree with the headline that they should just stick to gas. They need to improve their EVs.

Just imagine if we gave it the same permitting regs as oil and gas

Very good point. Looks like I've just added something to my to-read list

Interesting how the Republican party is more popular than any of the individual members. Yet the Democratic party is less popular than many of the individual members, save Chuck of course.

Its one of those things where we should be deploying plenty of proven solar, wind and batteries while continuing R&D on all three AND pouring lots of money into other research like fusion and EGS. Crypto/AI has proven there is no shortage of money to deploy on wild ideas

I think starter batteries (main use of lead acid today) should be one of the first markets for sodium ion. It can handle lower temps better than li-ion which is why you haven't witnessed a wholesale switch to li-ion

Electrify the cars in that house hold too and you've now stolen business from the oil companies/gas stations. Electrifying everything allows you to take what used to be three separate cost intensive networks and jammed them into one 'pipe'

Electrification can help distribution costs. It costs a lot of money to bring a NG line and an electric line to the same house. If you electrify the house you've increased the electricity consumption and most of the times not increased the size of the wire to the house, spreading the costs

The solar and EV cost curves are definitely be the biggest threat while the politicians bicker

And that all time peak was a long time ago because rooftop solar killed it

Presuming you've read this? worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...

I'm all for preventing radiation exposure but requiring expensive upgrades just to save 0.0001 millisieverts per year seems extreme.

What math are they even doing in Pre-K? This sounds made up.