Saturday, July 18, 2020

SOME REALLY GREAT NEWS

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/14/just-a-matter-of-when-the-20bn-plan-to-power-singapore-with-australian-solar

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

 

 

 


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