Tag: Pumped Hydro
From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid
Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]
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China Plans To Double Renewable Energy By 2035. That’s The Good News.
China continues to build massive renewable energy systems, but at the same time it is building lot of new coal fired facilities.
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The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It
This transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical breakthroughs, and explored everything from transmission and … [continued]
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Why Molecular Solar Thermal Is Great Chemistry And Bad Energy Hype
Every few years, a chemistry paper wanders out of the lab, passes through a university press office, gets dressed up by a science news site, and lands on social media as if humanity is one strained molecule away from solving energy storage. The latest example is Molecular Solar Thermal storage, … [continued]
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Why Small Hydrogen Markets Are Likely to Shrink
Someone recently asked me about small, distributed hydrogen use cases and whether those markets might eventually be served by imported green methanol cracked onsite to produce hydrogen. The idea is not irrational. Hydrogen is difficult to transport and store. Methanol is a liquid fuel with existing global shipping infrastructure. Catalytic … [continued]
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