Renewable energy

Notes

• Renewables don't provide baseload power when the wind and solar aren't delivering. You need the baseload, which today mostly comes from coal.

Links

• HN: Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push (2019)
• Vultus - Offers a satellite system for precision farming. The technology enables farmers around the world to grow healthier plants at a lower cost and significantly reduces environmental harm.
• Awesome Clean Tech - Community curated list of awesome clean tech companies.
• Energy (2019)
• Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020) (HN)
• Solar Power Satellite Hardware That Beams Energy to Earth Tested in Orbit (2020)
• Ørsted - Global leader in offshore wind based in Denmark.
• After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit (2020) (HN)
• Semi-Transparent Solar Panels Allow Concurrent Production of Crops and Power (2020) (HN)
• Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years? (2020)
• Energypedia - Wiki-based platform for collaborative knowledge exchange on renewable energy and energy access.
• Notes on Hydrogen (2020)
• ElectricityMap - Real-time visualization of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption. (HN) (API) (Twitter) (Code) (HN)
• Facebook and Carnegie Mellon launch the Open Catalyst Project to find new ways to store renewable energy (2020)
• NextEra Analytics - Provide innovative design and optimization solutions that enable low cost, reliable and sustainable power systems.
• Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? (2020) (HN)
• The future of electricity is local (2020)
• The Future of Solid State Wind Energy - No More Blades (2021)
• Crystal arrangement results in 1,000x more power from ferroelectric solar cells (2021) (HN)
• How to Build a Low-Tech Solar Panel? (2021) (HN)
• The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids (2021) (HN)
• How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight (2021) (HN)
• DIY Off-Grid Solar Power (HN)
• The Three Horseman of Grid Stability (2021)
• Geothermal's Path to Relevance: Cheap Drilling (2021)
• Energy Prices are Naturally Turbulent (2021)
• Electrify Everything is Slow (2021)
• Gridcognition - Software to help all the players in the energy system navigate the transition to a decentralised and decarbonised energy future.
• You can have geothermal power everywhere if you drill deep enough (2022) (HN)
• What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy? (2020) (Tweet)
• Quaise Energy - Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy. (HN)
• I built an open-source, AI-powered solar panel that's 95% optimal (2022) (HN)
• Solcore - Multi-scale, python-based library for the modelling of solar cells and semiconductor materials.
• Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells (2022) (HN)