🇨🇳 China is building the Largest Solar and Reforestation Project in the World in the Kubuqi Desert The target for the expansion of solar installations is 100 GW by 2030, by which time the Chinese green solar wall will be 5 km wide and 400 km long in the Kubuqi Desert. It is

There’s a reason that electricity is the highest step on the energy ladder. It’s clean, highly efficient, highly versatile, and extremely cheap. Fossil fuels are simply inferior. They are dirty, outdated, much less efficient, and way more expensive.

What if we replaced fossil fuels with cleaner sources of energy that never ran out?

Interesting article on the reliability and cost of wind and solar. In the long term this will turn out to be true. By 2050, it will seem normal that our grids are mostly powered by wind and solar, that they’re completely reliable, and that electricity is extremely cheap.

Rule #1: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed from one form to another. Lighting fuels on fire is a terrible way of transforming energy from one form to another. It’s dirty, and inefficient. ~66% of the energy gets converted to unused heat.

A more elegant way of converting energy from one form to another is using electricity. For example electric motors can convert electrical energy into mechanical energy with efficiencies as high as 99%. This is way better than the 33% efficiency you get lighting fuels on fire.

It's good to see the timeline for new nuclear projects being pulled forward. We'll need a lot more reactors to offset natural gas use in data centers, and in general. x.com/yasir_fission/…

There is most certainly a non-sensical war against 80% of what was added to the grid last year. Adding barriers instead of unleashing American energy. But it was amazing to see how much of the Inflation Reduction Act was kept. And watch the resiliency of the solar/wind industry

This can be attributed to pretty stable energy demand in the U.S. for the last 25 years. But we’re now seeing signs of growth driven by data centers running AI. Can we win the AI war without more electricity? Definitely not. Helion’s first plant, and many more after that, are

🗣 “Grid congestion has serious implications for societies … undermining energy security, economic development & clean energy transitions.” Our commentary highlights the importance of expanding & modernising the world's grid networks. Read more ➡️ iea.li/4oq4JdK

“US natural gas prices are expected to double between 2024 and 2026, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA)’s August Short-Term Energy Outlook” rmi.org/affordability-…

There is unfortunately a massive a wave of energy inflation headed for the U.S. economy right now and it’s largely unavoidable. It was entirely driven by the bad energy policies of second the Trump administration.