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Red government already sold it to the ChineseRipe Chenette wrote:I go sell the pitch lake
You do know that you that turbines have to operate at a range of wind speed. Meaning you can't have too strong of a wind and too little of wind speeds. Half of the time they are turned off cause its not cost effectivecornfused wrote:The Reason put forward of a tree falling on a transmission line and the failure of 3 of the other power plants is plausible but...
No where in Trinidad is there more wind than the East Coast from Manzan southward down the coast has almost perpetual wind. A few discrete wind towers would provide energy to most to that area.
adnj wrote:
Electric vehicle owners have more choices of energy sources to charge their vehicles than just gasoline to operate their vehicles. They can charge their vehicles using renewable energy, which will greatly reduce emissions generated by the use of their vehicles.
On the manufacturing front, EV detractors often claim that the energy and resources that it takes to build batteries counterbalance all the tailpipe advantages. However, those detractors often leave out battery recycling, which makes all the difference for the full-emission cycles for electric vehicles since you can recover most of the materials in a battery pack.
Last year, Tesla reported that it achieved 92% battery cell material recovery in its new recycling process, and it recycled 1,300 tons of nickel, 400 tons of copper, and 80 tons of cobalt in 2020.
In Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report, it has released an update on its battery recycling effort. In 2021, Tesla increased its battery material recycling to 1,500 tons of nickel, 300 tons of copper, and 200 tons of cobalt.
Interestingly, copper recovery went down, but cobalt recovery went up significantly. At the current price of $80,000 per ton for cobalt, Tesla has recovered the equivalent of $16 million worth of cobalt last year.
With the recent surge in nickel prices, the nickel recovered by Tesla last year is worth more than $45 million now.
https://electrek.co/2022/05/09/tesla-in ... ery-packs/
Solid State batteries are a better option.nervewrecker wrote:adnj wrote:
Electric vehicle owners have more choices of energy sources to charge their vehicles than just gasoline to operate their vehicles. They can charge their vehicles using renewable energy, which will greatly reduce emissions generated by the use of their vehicles.
On the manufacturing front, EV detractors often claim that the energy and resources that it takes to build batteries counterbalance all the tailpipe advantages. However, those detractors often leave out battery recycling, which makes all the difference for the full-emission cycles for electric vehicles since you can recover most of the materials in a battery pack.
Last year, Tesla reported that it achieved 92% battery cell material recovery in its new recycling process, and it recycled 1,300 tons of nickel, 400 tons of copper, and 80 tons of cobalt in 2020.
In Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report, it has released an update on its battery recycling effort. In 2021, Tesla increased its battery material recycling to 1,500 tons of nickel, 300 tons of copper, and 200 tons of cobalt.
Interestingly, copper recovery went down, but cobalt recovery went up significantly. At the current price of $80,000 per ton for cobalt, Tesla has recovered the equivalent of $16 million worth of cobalt last year.
With the recent surge in nickel prices, the nickel recovered by Tesla last year is worth more than $45 million now.
https://electrek.co/2022/05/09/tesla-in ... ery-packs/
biggest questions right now is if tesla batteries will remain in use.
Skeleton technologies look promising with high power density graphene cells and and we on the advent of nuclear diamond cells that utilize nuclear waste that have no viable disposal avenues beside burying.
Toyota has also announced its new solid state battery which they will incorporate into hybrids as trails before presenting in full electric.
EFOY has managed to incorporate DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) technology of some sort into its electric generators and DMFC cells in hybrid vehicles are possible alternatives to ICE. PROMAN is into alternative energy research and is a huge methanol producer so maybe we can see more options in the near future. PROMAN's methanol production also captures carbon from the atmosphere as opposed to fossil fuel that brings up carbon from underground that introduces it to surface concentrations via combustion.
nervewrecker wrote:
biggest questions right now is if tesla batteries will remain in use.
Skeleton technologies look promising with high power density graphene cells and and we on the advent of nuclear diamond cells that utilize nuclear waste that have no viable disposal avenues beside burying.
Toyota has also announced its new solid state battery which they will incorporate into hybrids as trails before presenting in full electric.
EFOY has managed to incorporate DMFC (direct methanol fuel cell) technology of some sort into its electric generators and DMFC cells in hybrid vehicles are possible alternatives to ICE. PROMAN is into alternative energy research and is a huge methanol producer so maybe we can see more options in the near future. PROMAN's methanol production also captures carbon from the atmosphere as opposed to fossil fuel that brings up carbon from underground that introduces it to surface concentrations via combustion.