Nuclear power, climate change, renewables…It’s all been dictated by a small handful of powerful, greedy, and corrupt people in this country and the world. It has nothing to do with common sense, affordability, or sustainability. It’s been obvious to many of us all along.
So much for the nuclear renaissance…
Some
really great news in these troubled times.
As the US
struggles through its chaos, the rest of the world is not standing still, and
continues to move towards a more sustainable future. Recent events have peaked my optimism that
there are a lot of smart people in this world.
Here is some of my joy!
I’ve always admired
the son of a close friend of mine, who went to work for Nextracker, a small
company in the Bay Area, that specializes in solar tracking. He writes software for them, and about a year
and a half ago, they moved him and his family to Australia, to work on what he
said was a fabulous solar project. The 120MW
Bomen Solar Farm has been completed and is up and running.
https://www.westpac.com.au/news/making-news/2020/06/renewable-life-solar-farm-sets-sail-post-ppas/
Just the
other day, he told his dad that the contract was signed for 6 square miles! of solar
surface, for which he will program the solar tracking! This is part of a $20 billion project in Northern
Australia which will produce 10,000MW of solar electricity on about 60 square
miles of land, and coupled with battery storage, will send electricity to
Singapore via a 2400-mile undersea cable.
Many years in the planning, this project is constantly morphing and growing,
as more private investors see the emission-free future, and are expanding the
renewables potential for this part of the world. Vestas is looking at building 5MW of wind, and
other investments in various technologies are looking at Green Hydrogen
production.
My prediction
of hydrogen as the future carrier of energy is now making a very big inroad in
many parts of the world. Years ago, the argument
was over a plutonium or a hydrogen economy.
Sanity and common cents will eventually prevail!
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-hydrogen-9-billion-to-spend-as-strategy-is-revealed/a-53719746
