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Astonishing cost declines in SMRs.
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John Raymond Hanger
@johnrhanger
Good morning with good news: Solar module price falls to record low of $0.096/W, says BNEF's 3Q 2024 Global Solar Market Report!
Record low prices fuel record high global installations in 2024.
BNEF reports 592 GW will be installed in 2024, up 33% from then record high 2023!
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Developing solutions to create buildings that offer enhanced comfort, consume less energy and use fewer resources is the challenge that we are committed to tackling to make construction more sustainable.
#WeMakeTheWorldABetterHome #SaintGobain #Renovation0:24
We can bring low energy use and high levels of comfort to every floor
Derivative power is good. Original power is better.
Elemental Energy all the way.
Love the sarcasm ! Yeah, who needs billions in R&D when we can just harness that free energy from 94 million miles away?
And that SMR completely depends on the time of day, the season, weather, location, and vast amounts of raw materials and land.
The other kind of MSR doesn't care about any of those things, it just produces huge amounts of energy regardless.
20 years . . . from whenever you ask. 
Relevance to emissions reductions in next 30 years = zero.
For rich countries then, maybe.
For the global South probably never.
Relevance to emissions reductions in next 30 years = zero.
For rich countries then, maybe.
For the global South probably never.
We’ve been able to do viable fusion for six decades. It’s doing it on a small scale that’s the problem.
hear hear!
(lol just noticed my typo)
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Andrew T. Clark
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Note I’m a big supporter of nuclear power, whether it comes from a fission reactor hear on earth, or from a fusion reactor 94 million miles away. But the discourse comparing the two, especially “EROEI”, has been so incredibly stupid!
How far from viable fusion are all the startups people invested in recently? Same distance, or closer?
But I don’t only live in a house that I could put solar panels on. I also live in a major economy that must have a continuous supply of controllable power in the tens of gigawatts, regardless of the weather, in order to function. Or large numbers of people will be in trouble.
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Jigar Shah
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“China’s energy regulator said it will limit “low-end” solar panel manufacturing after industry leaders called for more government intervention earlier this month.
The move is an acknowledgement by Beijing that solar panel overcapacity is a problem, one that has pushed Chinese x.com/johnrhanger/st…
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all we really need is massive amount of storage both grid level&at home for that free abundant SMR-harvested fusion energy…luckily we already have brilliant cost effective solutions at scale both in stationary and mobile forms(if you don’t live in those places with nasty tariff)
Energy is not our problem.
It is the strawman.
It's the psyop.
It's the decoy to keep you busy, given 99.9% of humanity is scared to use their 2 gray cells they have instead of a brain, afraid they may run out!
Your brain is not gasoline or crude oil! You should use it now!
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Poland's largest offshore wind farm: The Baltica Offshore Wind Farm will be the largest wind project in the Polish waters of the Baltic Sea.
It is being developed in two phases, Baltica 2 and Baltica 3. The project is a partnership between and , Poland's
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Poland - the energy equivalent of West Virginia - is proposing a radical shift to phase out coal
The climate ministry wants to ratchet the share of coal power down from 60% to *checks notes* 1% 
The times they are a changing 
The times they are a changing 
Good morning with good news: US solar generation has doubled every 3 years from August 2015 to August 2024! Wow!
Aug 2024 33.85 TWh
Aug 2021 17.30 TWh
Aug 2018 9.71 TWh
Aug 2015 4.15 TWh
At this growth rate, solar will generate 68 TWh in 8/2027 & 136 TWh in 8/2030!
Bi-facial solar panels (using light from both sided) and trackers (that keep panels pointed at the sun) are super cool and a great match for agrivoltaics.
But did you know they are already the de-facto standard for utility scale PV?
