The battery invented 120 years before its time—OR NOT
So, BBC implicitly suggests we use a battrolyzer to compressively store green ~30% of wind nameplate capacity (its capacity factor) at a battrolyzer efficiency of maybe 65%, netting (0.3*0.65*0.9) ~18% energy storage efficiency. Then we use that at about at best ~60% efficiency to regenerate electricity for the grid, a net round trip efficiency of maybe (0.18*0.6) 0.11% from the originally subsidized renewable generation. What a great deal–NOT.…
Claim: Antarctic Peninsula warming up due to heat in Tasman sea
Heating of the Tasman sea warms up the climate of Antarctic Peninsula via changes in wind patterns, new study by Japanese and Australian scientists shows RESEARCH ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND……
Compensation between cloud feedback + ECS and aerosol-cloud forcing in CMIP6 models
The new open-access paper – the senior author of which, Gabriel Vecchi, is a well known professor of geosciences at Princeton University – provides further evidence that high ECS CMIP6 models do not realistically simulate the behaviour of the Earth’s real climate system.…
EV subsidies, fantasies and realities
Tesla may be synonymous with electric vehicles right now. But within a few years, GM, Volvo and many other manufacturers will be making mostly or only EVs, because they’re emission-free, climate-friendly, socially and ecologically responsible, and more affordable every year. Which explains why we need subsidies to persuade people to buy them, and mandates to force people to buy them.…
Michael Mann Urges OECD to Reject “Climate Inactivist” Mathias Cormann’s Leadership Bid
Michael Mann and other greens are horrified the new OECD head might be former Aussie minister Mathias Corman, whom they describe as a “climate inactivist”.…
The Revolutionary Weather Observers
Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog It is not well known that the founders of the American republic were avid amateur meteorologists, with many of them taking weather observations……