World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density

Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by philipkglass on Friday April 21, 2023 @02:13PM (#35657784)

I don't know where you live, but in the United States renewables have recently surpassed nuclear and coal power as sources of electricity:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55960

They're still pretty close to each other right now. Renewables are at 21%, coal 20%, nuclear 19%. However, nuclear is flat and coal is declining. Renewables are still growing rapidly and will widen their lead significantly in a few more years. See the first embedded chart in the article, showing output trends since 2010. Also see the short term forecast at the end of the article:

"In our March Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast the wind share of the U.S. generation mix will increase from 11% last year to 12% this year. We forecast that the solar share will grow to 5% in 2023, up from 4% last year. The natural gas share of generation is forecast to remain unchanged from last year (39%); the coal share of generation is forecast to decline from 20% last year to 17% in 2023."

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Re:World’s largest battery maker announces major breakthroug... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:54PM (#35660740)

I was curious, and Wikipedia lists 224 active coal plants in the USA. More amazing was that from 2010 to 2020, 240 coal plants were closed.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal-fired_power_sta...

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