Tag: inverters
Winning the Energy Transition on Oʻahu: It’s Not About Technology
The clean energy future for Oʻahu is no longer blocked by missing technology. The architecture is already visible. Once overseas aviation fuel, international bunkering, and military energy use are taken out of the frame, and once transportation, buildings, and industry are electrified, the civilian Oʻahu system settles into roughly 6,000 … [continued]
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The Hormuz Shock & The Rise Of The Electrostate
The Strait of Hormuz has always been one of the obvious stress points in the global energy system, a narrow passage through which a large share of internationally traded crude oil, LNG, and fertilizer feedstocks move every day, but most years it has been treated as a geopolitical abstraction rather … [continued]
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A Backup Battery For The Rest Of Us
Zachary Shahan’s review of the Bluetti Elite 400 battery made me smile, I have to admit. Let me explain. Perhaps you might smile as well. I have been interested in getting a solar power system for a very long time. So long, in fact, that I remember talking about such … [continued]
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From Subsidies to Scrap: The Real Story of Hydrogen Vehicle Fleets
Aberdeen’s hydrogen double decker buses are being withdrawn, and a German municipality was left with seven hydrogen garbage trucks that could not refuel. Paris saw Hype’s hydrogen taxi fleet collapse after years of public claims about scale. Liverpool is trying to convert its abandoned hydrogen bus fleet. More hydrogen fleets … [continued]
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The System Case Against Hydrogen for Grid Storage
Every time hydrogen is critiqued as an energy carrier for the power sector, the same question reappears. If not hydrogen, where does long duration storage come from? I received it related to my recent critique of Germany’s attempt to force the EU to double green hydrogen and synthetic fuel quotes … [continued]
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