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  1. Your occasional reminder that in #Scotland, electricity production has been #carbonfree for a while now.

    Yet people in the north of Scotland still pay more than those in the south of England for the same service.

    extraordinaryfacility.com/carb

  2. Your occasional reminder that in #Scotland, electricity production has been #carbonfree for a while now.

    Yet people in the north of Scotland still pay more than those in the south of England for the same service.

    extraordinaryfacility.com/carb

  3. Your occasional reminder that in #Scotland, electricity production has been #carbonfree for a while now.

    Yet people in the north of Scotland still pay more than those in the south of England for the same service.

    extraordinaryfacility.com/carb

  4. Your occasional reminder that in #Scotland, electricity production has been #carbonfree for a while now.

    Yet people in the north of Scotland still pay more than those in the south of England for the same service.

    extraordinaryfacility.com/carb

  5. Let us imagine, for a moment, a #CarbonFree #SteamEngine

    A #Locomotive , for pulling a #train.

    We would be doing this for #fun wouldn't we, so #efficiency is not a major concern, and even #effectiveness is not the main constraint.

    First off and really easy is what the #LondonUnderground, the#Tube, did in early days - make the boiler and firebox rather hot, use that to generate steam to propel the thing undergound, heat it up again when you get back into fresh air.

    No need to use #Coal now.

  6. Let us imagine, for a moment, a #CarbonFree #SteamEngine

    A #Locomotive , for pulling a #train.

    We would be doing this for #fun wouldn't we, so #efficiency is not a major concern, and even #effectiveness is not the main constraint.

    First off and really easy is what the #LondonUnderground, the#Tube, did in early days - make the boiler and firebox rather hot, use that to generate steam to propel the thing undergound, heat it up again when you get back into fresh air.

    No need to use #Coal now.

  7. Let us imagine, for a moment, a #CarbonFree #SteamEngine

    A #Locomotive , for pulling a #train.

    We would be doing this for #fun wouldn't we, so #efficiency is not a major concern, and even #effectiveness is not the main constraint.

    First off and really easy is what the #LondonUnderground, the#Tube, did in early days - make the boiler and firebox rather hot, use that to generate steam to propel the thing undergound, heat it up again when you get back into fresh air.

    No need to use #Coal now.

  8. Let us imagine, for a moment, a #CarbonFree #SteamEngine

    A #Locomotive , for pulling a #train.

    We would be doing this for #fun wouldn't we, so #efficiency is not a major concern, and even #effectiveness is not the main constraint.

    First off and really easy is what the #LondonUnderground, the#Tube, did in early days - make the boiler and firebox rather hot, use that to generate steam to propel the thing undergound, heat it up again when you get back into fresh air.

    No need to use #Coal now.

  9. 🇫🇮 Finland has cut #pollution from its #electricity sector by almost 80% in the past decade ⚡📉, mainly by switching from #FossilFuels to clean energy like #wind and #NuclearPower. By 2024, nearly all its electricity was #carbon-free, and even its last coal plant shut down in 2025 🔌🌱.

    Finnish delight: how the world...

  10. See, it just amazes me how #petroleum giants have made idiots out of everybody. Amazes? Annoys.

    If we actually had built #green #infrastructure, like #solar, #windmills, #batteries and co - in a tasteful, ethical & beautiful way ofc - then we wouldn't be struggling with energy now, would we?

    Still #European car makers lag behind, still with the #greenwashing, still more vassal state energy. Wtf.

    Opinion: Why your Google search won’t be #carbonfree anytime soon
    mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/opi

  11. See, it just amazes me how #petroleum giants have made idiots out of everybody. Amazes? Annoys.

    If we actually had built #green #infrastructure, like #solar, #windmills, #batteries and co - in a tasteful, ethical & beautiful way ofc - then we wouldn't be struggling with energy now, would we?

    Still #European car makers lag behind, still with the #greenwashing, still more vassal state energy. Wtf.

    Opinion: Why your Google search won’t be #carbonfree anytime soon
    mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/opi

  12. See, it just amazes me how #petroleum giants have made idiots out of everybody. Amazes? Annoys.

    If we actually had built #green #infrastructure, like #solar, #windmills, #batteries and co - in a tasteful, ethical & beautiful way ofc - then we wouldn't be struggling with energy now, would we?

    Still #European car makers lag behind, still with the #greenwashing, still more vassal state energy. Wtf.

    Opinion: Why your Google search won’t be #carbonfree anytime soon
    mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/opi

  13. See, it just amazes me how #petroleum giants have made idiots out of everybody. Amazes? Annoys.

    If we actually had built #green #infrastructure, like #solar, #windmills, #batteries and co - in a tasteful, ethical & beautiful way ofc - then we wouldn't be struggling with energy now, would we?

    Still #European car makers lag behind, still with the #greenwashing, still more vassal state energy. Wtf.

    Opinion: Why your Google search won’t be #carbonfree anytime soon
    mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/opi

  14. @kali Maybe just maybe the only silver lining of #IranWar and closure of strait of #Hormuz is an accelerated shift towards #renewables. If we can shift surface transport plus sea borne transportation entirely, along with electricity generation, away from #oil and #gas then that would be worthy outcome. But we cannot expect politicians to deliver this.

    Let not any crisis go a waste. This crisis ought not be wasted either. Shift to #Green and #CarbonFree.

    #EndlessWar #EndlessWars

  15. @kali Maybe just maybe the only silver lining of #IranWar and closure of strait of #Hormuz is an accelerated shift towards #renewables. If we can shift surface transport plus sea borne transportation entirely, along with electricity generation, away from #oil and #gas then that would be worthy outcome. But we cannot expect politicians to deliver this.

    Let not any crisis go a waste. This crisis ought not be wasted either. Shift to #Green and #CarbonFree.

    #EndlessWar #EndlessWars

  16. @kali Maybe just maybe the only silver lining of #IranWar and closure of strait of #Hormuz is an accelerated shift towards #renewables. If we can shift surface transport plus sea borne transportation entirely, along with electricity generation, away from #oil and #gas then that would be worthy outcome. But we cannot expect politicians to deliver this.

    Let not any crisis go a waste. This crisis ought not be wasted either. Shift to #Green and #CarbonFree.

    #EndlessWar #EndlessWars

  17. @kali Maybe just maybe the only silver lining of #IranWar and closure of strait of #Hormuz is an accelerated shift towards #renewables. If we can shift surface transport plus sea borne transportation entirely, along with electricity generation, away from #oil and #gas then that would be worthy outcome. But we cannot expect politicians to deliver this.

    Let not any crisis go a waste. This crisis ought not be wasted either. Shift to #Green and #CarbonFree.

    #EndlessWar #EndlessWars

  18. “(China’s) barely believable expansion of clean #carbon-free #energy has been the most important technological story since…the Industrial Revolution. And it shows no signs of stopping.” open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

    The World Turned Upside Down

  19. 【圖表】什麼是全時無碳電力(24/7 CFE)?和RE100差在哪?台灣做得到嗎?

    邱怡瑄 2025-11-06 17:58:00 CST
    近年國際社會談淨零,除了有企業會員公開承諾100%用綠電的「RE100」,還出現一個新焦點「24/7 CFE」。這項追求一年365天、24小時使用無碳電力的國際倡議究竟是什麼?跟RE100差在哪?無碳電力是否也包含核能?對台灣的影響是什麼?讓《關鍵評論網》透過三張圖表和報告解析,帶你快速了解
    https://www.thenewslens.com/article/260574
    #經濟 #地熱 #核能 #減碳 #太陽光電 #無碳電力 #RE100 #全時無碳電力 #陸域風電 #CFE #淨零 #Carbon-Free Energy #離岸風電 #綠能 #24/7 CFE #再生能源

  20. The BNZ says there will be no new lending to service stations & existing bank debt must be repaid by 2030. This is the bank decarbonising risk & as you'd expect, petrol station owners aren't happy.

    The Waitomo CEO reckons "Today’s petrol stations will become tomorrow’s energy stations" and "...banks need to expand their vision of sustainability."

    You can smell the petrocarbons on his breath as the resale value of petrol stations just tanked.

    waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360

    #NZ #CarbonFree #BNZ

  21. The BNZ says there will be no new lending to service stations & existing bank debt must be repaid by 2030. This is the bank decarbonising risk & as you'd expect, petrol station owners aren't happy.

    The Waitomo CEO reckons "Today’s petrol stations will become tomorrow’s energy stations" and "...banks need to expand their vision of sustainability."

    You can smell the petrocarbons on his breath as the resale value of petrol stations just tanked.

    waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360

    #NZ #CarbonFree #BNZ

  22. The BNZ says there will be no new lending to service stations & existing bank debt must be repaid by 2030. This is the bank decarbonising risk & as you'd expect, petrol station owners aren't happy.

    The Waitomo CEO reckons "Today’s petrol stations will become tomorrow’s energy stations" and "...banks need to expand their vision of sustainability."

    You can smell the petrocarbons on his breath as the resale value of petrol stations just tanked.

    waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360

    #NZ #CarbonFree #BNZ

  23. The BNZ says there will be no new lending to service stations & existing bank debt must be repaid by 2030. This is the bank decarbonising risk & as you'd expect, petrol station owners aren't happy.

    The Waitomo CEO reckons "Today’s petrol stations will become tomorrow’s energy stations" and "...banks need to expand their vision of sustainability."

    You can smell the petrocarbons on his breath as the resale value of petrol stations just tanked.

    waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/360

    #NZ #CarbonFree #BNZ

  24. [Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    “The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.

    “In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’

    “They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.

    “A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”

    Pages 139-140

    #IndigenousAnarchy
    #Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
    #CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine

  25. [Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    “The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.

    “In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’

    “They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.

    “A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”

    Pages 139-140

    #IndigenousAnarchy
    #Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
    #CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine

  26. [Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    “The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.

    “In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’

    “They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.

    “A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”

    Pages 139-140

    #IndigenousAnarchy
    #Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
    #CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine

  27. [Thread] The next installment from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

    “The devastation of #NuclearColonialism, which permanently destroys #Indigenous communities throughout the world, is outright ignored by some of the most devout #ClimateJustice advocates. They claim #NuclearEnergy production is also a #GreenSolution to the #ClimateCrisis. More than 15,000 abandoned #UraniumMines are located within the so-called US, mostly in and around Indigenous communities, permanently poisoning #SacredLands and waters with little to no action being taken to clean up their deadly toxic legacy. There are currently 93 operating #NuclearReactors in the so-called US that supply 20% of the country’s electricity. There are 60,000 tons of #HighlyRadioactive spent waste store in concrete dams at #NuclearPowerPlants throughout the country with the waste increasing at a rate of 2,000 tons per year.

    “In 1987 the ‘US’ Congress initiated a controversial project to transport and store almost all of the US’s #ToxicWaste at #YuccaMountain located about 100 miles northwest of so-called #LasVegas, #Nevada. Yucca Mountan has been held holy to the #Paiute and #WesternShoshone Nations since time immemorial. In January 2010 the #ObamaAdminstration approved a $54 billion taxpayer loan in a guarantee program for new nuclear reactor construction, three times what Bush previously promised in 2005. In April 2022, the #BidenAdministration government bailout to ‘rescue’ nuclear power plants at risk for closing. A #Colonial government representative stated, ‘US nuclear power contributes more than half of our #CarbonFree electricity, and President Biden is committed to keeping these plants active to reach our #CleanEnergy goals.’

    “They, along with Climate Justice activiists, cite nuclear energy as necessary to combat #GlobalWarming, all while ignoring the devastating percent impacts #IndigenousPeoples have faced. There is nothing clean about energy produced from nuclear colonialism. From its weapons (including #DepletedUranium) to its #Mining and its waste; Indigenous bodies, lands, and waters continue to be sacrificed to heat water with radioactive materials which creates steam that moves generators to change batteries made from #Lithium extracted from other Indigenous sacred lands so #Teslas can mo you forward into a ‘just’ climate future.

    “A green economy sustains and advances colonial progress, which means mitigated selective and ongoing destruction of #MotherEarth.”

    Pages 139-140

    #IndigenousAnarchy
    #Ecosystem #HaulNo #DefendTheSacred
    #CorporateColonialism #NoDAPL #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife #ClimateDefenders #NoCopperMiningWithoutConsent #NoLithiumMining #CorporateColonialism #NoMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CopperMining #Greenwashng #NuclearWeapons #RestInPowerKleeBenally #RIPKleeBenally #StopCanyonMine

  28. Canada is set to revolutionize aluminum production with the introduction of Elysis’ groundbreaking inert anode technology at Rio Tinto’s Arvida smelter in Quebec. This innovative process eliminates carbon emissions from traditional smelting, releasing only oxygen and significantly reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.

    #GreenTech #Sustainability #AluminumProduction #CarbonFree #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechNews #Canada #Elysis #RioTinto

  29. Canada is set to revolutionize aluminum production with the introduction of Elysis’ groundbreaking inert anode technology at Rio Tinto’s Arvida smelter in Quebec. This innovative process eliminates carbon emissions from traditional smelting, releasing only oxygen and significantly reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.

    #GreenTech #Sustainability #AluminumProduction #CarbonFree #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechNews #Canada #Elysis #RioTinto

  30. Canada is set to revolutionize aluminum production with the introduction of Elysis’ groundbreaking inert anode technology at Rio Tinto’s Arvida smelter in Quebec. This innovative process eliminates carbon emissions from traditional smelting, releasing only oxygen and significantly reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.

    #GreenTech #Sustainability #AluminumProduction #CarbonFree #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechNews #Canada #Elysis #RioTinto

  31. Canada is set to revolutionize aluminum production with the introduction of Elysis’ groundbreaking inert anode technology at Rio Tinto’s Arvida smelter in Quebec. This innovative process eliminates carbon emissions from traditional smelting, releasing only oxygen and significantly reducing the industry’s carbon footprint.

    #GreenTech #Sustainability #AluminumProduction #CarbonFree #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechNews #Canada #Elysis #RioTinto

  32. But we have shown that they are solvable.

    In the next 5-10 years, #Scotland's electricity generation network will be 100% #carbonfree at source, all the time.

  33. But we have shown that they are solvable.

    In the next 5-10 years, #Scotland's electricity generation network will be 100% #carbonfree at source, all the time.

  34. But we have shown that they are solvable.

    In the next 5-10 years, #Scotland's electricity generation network will be 100% #carbonfree at source, all the time.

  35. But we have shown that they are solvable.

    In the next 5-10 years, #Scotland's electricity generation network will be 100% #carbonfree at source, all the time.

  36. #Japan Is Building Underwater #TidalPower Plants on Ocean Currents

    Innovation & Technology / By Bojan Stojkovski / June 15, 2022

    "Active shipping around the Japanese islands does not allow the Japanese to deploy conventional tidal power plants, and therefore Japanese experts are now developing and testing underwater power plants immersed in water to a depth of more than 50 meters.

    "Successful testing of early prototypes of such power plants leads to Japan’s plans to build extensive networks of 2-MW standard tidal turbines by 2030.

    "The development of the Kairyu Tidal Ocean Power Plant was started by IHI and NEDO scientists in 2011. By 2017, the partners assembled a 100 kW unit in the form of three 20-m floats with two 11-m blades (two 50 kW generators).

    "The immersion depth of 50 meters was chosen for safety reasons during #typhoons, when you will not surprise anyone with the 20th wave, although the closer to the surface, the more influential the movement of water masses.

    "The most promising place for installing underwater tidal turbines near Japan is the Japan Current (#Kuroshio) area off the country’s southern and eastern coasts in the Pacific Ocean. The potential current power is estimated at #205GW.

    "IHI and NEDO are planning to build a 2MW tidal power plant with 40 blades for commercial use. A distributed network of such turbines could significantly contribute to providing the islands with electrical energy.

    "According to Japanese experts, this type of network could generate electricity at the price of #solar energy. At the same time, the efficiency of tidal power plants is much higher than that of solar farms.

    "Thus, the installed capacity utilization factor (ICUF) for solar farms is only 15%, while for tidal power plants, it reaches 70% and approaches the ICUU of thermal power plants with 80%.

    "After the accident at the #Fukushima #nuclear power plant, Japan has problems with developing a peaceful atom. Also, there are no areas for full-fledged solar energy in the country, and the #winds are not as predictable as in Europe. Tidal power plants could be the foundation in Japan around which the government will build #carbonfree energy."

    renewable.news/innovation-tech

    #TidalEnergy #RenewablesNow #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes

  37. #Japan Is Building Underwater #TidalPower Plants on Ocean Currents

    Innovation & Technology / By Bojan Stojkovski / June 15, 2022

    "Active shipping around the Japanese islands does not allow the Japanese to deploy conventional tidal power plants, and therefore Japanese experts are now developing and testing underwater power plants immersed in water to a depth of more than 50 meters.

    "Successful testing of early prototypes of such power plants leads to Japan’s plans to build extensive networks of 2-MW standard tidal turbines by 2030.

    "The development of the Kairyu Tidal Ocean Power Plant was started by IHI and NEDO scientists in 2011. By 2017, the partners assembled a 100 kW unit in the form of three 20-m floats with two 11-m blades (two 50 kW generators).

    "The immersion depth of 50 meters was chosen for safety reasons during #typhoons, when you will not surprise anyone with the 20th wave, although the closer to the surface, the more influential the movement of water masses.

    "The most promising place for installing underwater tidal turbines near Japan is the Japan Current (#Kuroshio) area off the country’s southern and eastern coasts in the Pacific Ocean. The potential current power is estimated at #205GW.

    "IHI and NEDO are planning to build a 2MW tidal power plant with 40 blades for commercial use. A distributed network of such turbines could significantly contribute to providing the islands with electrical energy.

    "According to Japanese experts, this type of network could generate electricity at the price of #solar energy. At the same time, the efficiency of tidal power plants is much higher than that of solar farms.

    "Thus, the installed capacity utilization factor (ICUF) for solar farms is only 15%, while for tidal power plants, it reaches 70% and approaches the ICUU of thermal power plants with 80%.

    "After the accident at the #Fukushima #nuclear power plant, Japan has problems with developing a peaceful atom. Also, there are no areas for full-fledged solar energy in the country, and the #winds are not as predictable as in Europe. Tidal power plants could be the foundation in Japan around which the government will build #carbonfree energy."

    renewable.news/innovation-tech

    #TidalEnergy #RenewablesNow #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes

  38. #Japan Is Building Underwater #TidalPower Plants on Ocean Currents

    Innovation & Technology / By Bojan Stojkovski / June 15, 2022

    "Active shipping around the Japanese islands does not allow the Japanese to deploy conventional tidal power plants, and therefore Japanese experts are now developing and testing underwater power plants immersed in water to a depth of more than 50 meters.

    "Successful testing of early prototypes of such power plants leads to Japan’s plans to build extensive networks of 2-MW standard tidal turbines by 2030.

    "The development of the Kairyu Tidal Ocean Power Plant was started by IHI and NEDO scientists in 2011. By 2017, the partners assembled a 100 kW unit in the form of three 20-m floats with two 11-m blades (two 50 kW generators).

    "The immersion depth of 50 meters was chosen for safety reasons during #typhoons, when you will not surprise anyone with the 20th wave, although the closer to the surface, the more influential the movement of water masses.

    "The most promising place for installing underwater tidal turbines near Japan is the Japan Current (#Kuroshio) area off the country’s southern and eastern coasts in the Pacific Ocean. The potential current power is estimated at #205GW.

    "IHI and NEDO are planning to build a 2MW tidal power plant with 40 blades for commercial use. A distributed network of such turbines could significantly contribute to providing the islands with electrical energy.

    "According to Japanese experts, this type of network could generate electricity at the price of #solar energy. At the same time, the efficiency of tidal power plants is much higher than that of solar farms.

    "Thus, the installed capacity utilization factor (ICUF) for solar farms is only 15%, while for tidal power plants, it reaches 70% and approaches the ICUU of thermal power plants with 80%.

    "After the accident at the #Fukushima #nuclear power plant, Japan has problems with developing a peaceful atom. Also, there are no areas for full-fledged solar energy in the country, and the #winds are not as predictable as in Europe. Tidal power plants could be the foundation in Japan around which the government will build #carbonfree energy."

    renewable.news/innovation-tech

    #TidalEnergy #RenewablesNow #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes