Category Archives: ENERGY

Elon Musk: When you “Electrify Everything” it HALVES how much energy you need to make!

Posted on 7 March, 2023 by Eclipse Now

Elon: when you Electrify Everything it HALVES how much energy we need to make in the first place! While oil was this incredibly dense energy source with a very high EROEI – the Internal Combustion Engine is terribly inefficient. Diesel … Continue reading →

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Throw some perovskites in the blast furnace for green steel?

Posted on 27 February, 2023 by Eclipse Now

This is mind blowing – as if it works as advertised – it could mean mostly green steel arrives years earlier than the hydrogen method. That is, a large CO2 reduction decades earlier is better than none. Indeed – if … Continue reading →

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It’s groundhog day again, again.

Posted on 24 February, 2023 by Eclipse Now

Nothing new. Stasse’s pushing this. Apparently it’s truer-er if you shout it emotionally. In French. But it’s the same arguments – even if it’s short and passionate and eloquent. And French. (After a few subtitled French philosophy documentaries many years … Continue reading →

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It’s Groundhog Day in Peak Oil land

Posted on 18 February, 2023 by Eclipse Now

Mike Stasse is at it again. He is promoting Paul Mobbs, another Degrowth Doomer. Paul pushes message that there is no alternative but to go back to the land. A highly complex industrial information age is about to collapse back … Continue reading →

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Double the head, halve the cost of pumped hydro

Posted on 10 February, 2023 by Eclipse Now

Renew Economy is one of Australia’s biggest renewable energy podcasts. Here they interview Professor Andrew Blakers. (Click here or on image to go to episode.) Here they interview Professor Andrew Blakers. His team just won the engineering *equivalent* of the … Continue reading →

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