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El Niño and Solar Batteries: What Australia Really Faces

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8d ago Our executive director @sachuconstantine.bsky.social joined KPFA Radio A Rude Awakening last week to highlight how solar is already reshaping our electric grid. Listen here: kpfa.org/episode/sach... +4.0
9d ago Cuba has only gotten one tanker of oil since January. Cuba's iconic vintage cars have all but disappeared. In their place, small electric tricycles outfitted with solar panels, allowing them to rec… +2.5
9d ago Yes solar panels, but also double the cost of electricity that needs to be used by these data centers! Or provide all their own electric independently off the local power grid! -3.0
9d ago I am not talking about home generation but about the needs of the power grid 24/7/365. And if you have priced full solar for all household power you know how many years it takes to reach breakeven… ×2 -1.0
9d ago We have a flat roof without any shade cast on it. What makes these spaces unqualified for passive solar. And you can't tell me that generating extra electricity during peak load wouldn't change the… ×2 +5.0
9d ago It's not what people assumed, it's what happens on the electricity grid most of the time. Wind produces a chunk of the electricity, gas also produces a chunk, and the spot price is high. (sometime… ×2 +0.0
9d ago And this at a time where for any country that gets enough winter sunshine a solar power grid looks incredibly cheap. Spain and North Africa are heading to too cheap to measure territory. +6.5
9d ago "These panels plug directly into a standard outlet and allow homes to use less energy from the power grid. The systems are designed for people who may not be able to afford or install rooftop solar… +5.0
9d ago Fun: getting high and going to a show Not fun: getting high and watching a show about how all of humanity dies as a result of a solar storm causing a worldwide power outage -4.5
9d ago OPINION: Artificial intelligence data centers are poised to transform California's electric grid — but they might also rescue rooftop solar from years of political backlash, say clean-energy advoca… +3.5
10d ago Every EXISTING data center should be required to use solar panels - while figuring out even more ways to decrease the environmental and quality of life impacts. The rest should not be built or open… +3.0
10d ago Ontario govt could install soooo many solar panels to ease pressure on our electric grid, but decides to promote online gambling, cheap beer, and development overtop of greenbelt land instead. -4.0
10d ago As far as solar power, of course you can generate it on site, but you then have to store it in order for vehicles to be able to charge when the sun doesn't shine. You will need a massive PV system … ×2 -0.5
10d ago But if solar and wind can add to the power grid then why not promote renewable sources? +4.0
10d ago Every single time I see a data center, those big giant roofs, I wonder why they don't put solar panels there. I wonder why they are allowed to operate off the public's power grid. There is not a s… -6.0
9d ago Old electric vehicle #EV batteries are coming back with a new purpose: energy storage for the power grid. “Batteries retired with 70 to 80 percent of their original capacity… can be excellent candi… +6.0
9d ago We could probably do something like permanent half between time, but I'm guessing the choice of DST all the time is in part an energy grid thing. Evening Western sun load is greater than Eastern mo… +1.5
8d ago What’s the endgame when they overload our electrical grid & contaminate &/or drain our water resources? -6.0
8d ago I’m grading all the venues #Phish plays based on how fossil-dominant the electricity grid is and what venues are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ⭕️ Tonight we’re at #coastalcreditunionmus… -3.5
8d ago Ireland is possibly the world leader in the use of its resources by data centres. We have about a hundred on a small island, nearly 25% of the output of our entire electrical grid is taken up by th… -1.0
9d ago San Francisco is planning to acquire its electrical grid from PG&E. @kcbsradio.bsky.social spoke with @keithataylor.bsky.social, UC Cooperative Extension community economic development specialist @… +1.5
9d ago There’s a difference between stupid and acting stupid. Have you ever tried to turn on your TV/lights/appliance during a power outage? We take for granted what we have until we don’t. My grandma tol… +4.0
9d ago I’ve got power but wanted to ask you about your dewalt (IIRC) fan. What size is it? I did remember to go looking (online) for a battery box fan JIC with you previous power outage, but the ones I … +1.5
9d ago Here OMG yellow orange haze. Mon/Tues w humidiex it was 45 and I couldn't risk it being asthmatic & high bp so I didn't get to bike ride. Then I wake up to what tf? Today is better, this morning pl… -2.0
9d ago Rumors and guesswork? What happens when your family is desperate enough to risk contaminated food? We already have many families that struggle to afford heating in the winter. What happens when th… -6.5
9d ago What everyone is forgetting in all of this concern about the effect Data Centers have on the environment and the Power Grid is *Who's Paying For It, and How Will It Be Paid For?* Spoiler Alert; It … -1.5
9d ago What everyone is forgetting in all of this concern about the effect on the environment and the power grid of Data Centers is *Who's Paying For It, and How Will It Be Paid For?* *Spoiler Alert* It W… ×4 -2.0
9d ago So what are all of your best tips for working through a heatwave or an extended power outage? #FreelanceFriends +1.5
9d ago There are issues with what's going on in Pakistan. It's putting the already unstable power grid into a death spiral. It's taking the wealthiest customers off the grid putting the cost of grid maint… -7.0
9d ago Meanwhile in VA: Dominion has approved 111 data centers and has 220 in the queue. The amount of energy needed to power those 111 is more than what they currently use to power the rest of the state … -6.0

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T3 El Niño and Solar Batteries: What Australia Really Faces 📄 power_grid_resilience energymatters.com.au concerned, curious, prepared
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