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- Comment on New steel tariffs put Canadian wind farms in danger of failure 12 hours ago:
When you impose a tariff, domestic producers raise their prices because they face less competition
- Submitted 14 hours ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 3 comments
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- Once opposed, A.C. wind farm has become a landmark 20 years later | That wind farm, once opposed for fears of noise, aesthetics, and worries over Shore birds, turns 20 on Friday.share.inquirer.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
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- Fervo Energy Raises $462 Million, Lands Google as Investor | The company, also backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, has emerged as a leader in advanced geothermal energywww.wsj.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Not All Drilling in Texas Is About Oil | The state has become a hub of innovation for creating electricity using geothermal power. Just don’t call it renewable.www.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables 5 days ago:
The thing about nuclear which drove us to large plants in the first place is that bigger reactors have significant economies of scale. Even with big reactors, nuclear has been very expensive to build, and hasn’t really come down in cost in a long time, and takes a very long time to actually build.
By contrast, wind, solar, and storage are cheap and can be deployed rapidly in small increments with much more site flexibility.
So what’s going on is a false promise of future nuclear being used to prevent the deployment of renewables now.
- Comment on A Rare Bright Spot for U.S. Solar: Subscriptions | The solar company Sunrun has managed to thrive despite President Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy, offering what it calls “energy as a service.” 5 days ago:
In the US, yes. Other countries do installers competing against each other over install price, which ends up dropping cost to about 1/4 of what it is in the US.
- Submitted 5 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 6 comments
- Comment on A Rare Bright Spot for U.S. Solar: Subscriptions | The solar company Sunrun has managed to thrive despite President Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy, offering what it calls “energy as a service.” 5 days ago:
Basically they have a financing deal for the rooftop solar that’s designed to have a lower monthly payment than the utility bill it displaces
- A Rare Bright Spot for U.S. Solar: Subscriptions | The solar company Sunrun has managed to thrive despite President Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy, offering what it calls “energy as a service.”www.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 5 comments
- Comment on Why Global Battery Prices Are Expected to Drop Again in 2026 5 days ago:
I don’t expect any kind of physical object to be free as in beer…but they definitely have a lot of room for technical improvement to make batteries cheaper
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- Comment on Once a Gamble in the Desert, Electric Grid Batteries Are Everywhere 1 week ago:
They’re mostly not set up as a backup system, but to time-shift wind and solar so that it isnt necessary to use more expensive fossil fuel generation. For example, here is what utility-scale battery use looked like on Dec 5 in California
- Comment on Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs 1 week ago:
Not really; there are real reasons people don’t want large-scale storage near populated areas, and it’s more expensive than avoiding the need for long-duration storage, and burning it (if you don’t store the oxygen, which raises costs even more) produces lung-damage nitrogen oxides. So there’s a lot of reasons to minimize the need for hydrogen as much as possible.
- Submitted 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs 1 week ago:
Depends a lot on where. Places with a lot of both wind and solar need a lot less than those with only one, or with big seasonal heating needs. Way more to say about this than can fit in a comment
- Comment on Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs 1 week ago:
You do need some amount of long-duration storage, with the amount depending on how generation diversity and how much clean firm generation you have, but we are still in the early stages of it.
- Comment on Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs 1 week ago:
People are going with batteries and demand-shifting first because they’re more cost-effective when it comes to dealing with a few hours of storage. Hydrogen storage is mostly a contender for longer-durarion storage
- Comment on A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town 1 week ago:
What’s new is the closed-loop horizontal drilling in places where geothermal was not possible before
- Comment on A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town 1 week ago:
That “or” is fairly surprising to me; its fairly easy to use waste heat from electric generation for district heat. Id expect some modest reduction, but not a total trade-off
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- Electricity Should Be Free at Noon | And two other ideas for lowering electricity costswww.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 9 comments
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