Banana purple punch coming along nfsot https://www.allforgardening.com/1267819/banana-purple-punch-coming-along-nfsot/ #hydro #HydroponicGardening #hydroponics

"Australian state backs 20 GWh pumped hydro project"

#Australia #Hydro #Energy #Renewables

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/04/15/australian-state-backs-20-gwh-pumped-hydro-project/

World #energy consumption by source

If Trudeau and the Canadian government really wanted to push around their power, they'd cut links to Quebec & Ontario hydro during the Superbowl.

Just sayin'.....

How China became the biggest market for energy storage tech.

Currently some 50GW pumped hydro is just over half of CN energy storage, with the rest mostly lithium ion batteries as well other emerging tech (flywheels, compressed air)

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-china-became-the-worlds-leading-market-for-energy-storage/

Jimmy Carter's unappreciated legacy was bringing to an end decades of wasteful and destructive dam projects that defined federal politics in the US for generations.

Other half off to see Travis (with the great Hamish Hawk as support) & has a spare ticket. I'd love to keep them company but I can't enjoy gigs with my #menieres impaired hearing.
If anyone needs a face value ticket...
#Glasgow #Hydro #Travis #HamishHawk

‘We’re an evolving laboratory’: the #island on a quest to be #self-sufficient in #energy

Harnessing wind, #hydro and maybe #geothermal power, the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro is blazing a trail for #sustainable energy – and the secret is all in the mix

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/11/el-hierro-canary-islands-wind-hydro-power-renewable-energy-self-sufficiency-sustainability-aoe

I got a rushed message from the failed PC MPP candidate for Scarborough SW today that Stephen Lecce will be announcing energy priorities for the province tonight at 6pm at Scarborough Legion 13 (1577 Kingston Road)

WHAT: announcement of priorities and initiatives from Ontario's Minister of Energy and Electrification

WHEN: 6 pm, Thursday 5th Dec

WHERE: Royal Canadian Legion Scarborough Branch 13 1577 Kingston Road Scarborough, Ontario M1N 1S3

Icelandic Election Set to Usher In a Green Energy Boom

"The expansion that’s likely to be unleashed as a new government comes in may see more #hydro and #geothermal plants emerging across Europe’s most sparsely populated country. #Iceland’s first wind farm, run by the national power company Landsvirkjun, is due to join the grid in 2026 and several other #WindParks are on the drawing board. Harnessing of solar and tidal power remains an option too."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-29/iceland-election-sets-stage-for-green-energy-investments

'Energy independent' #Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months
https://theprogressplaybook.com/2023/10/19/energy-independent-uruguay-runs-on-100-renewables-for-four-straight-months/ “#Renewables alone have powered the Uruguayan economy for 10 straight months.

Between 1 July 2023 and end-April 2024, the South American nation generated all of its electricity from #hydro, #wind, #bioenergy and #solar

Hydroelectric plants comprised 42.9% of the total mix, followed closely by wind farms at 40.6%. Bioenergy (12.9%) and solar (3.5%) accounted for the remainder.”

"‘Levels are dropping’: drought saps Zambia and Zimbabwe of hydropower"

#Zambia #Zimbabwe #Energy #Hydro

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/11/levels-are-dropping-drought-saps-zambia-and-zimbabwe-of-hydropower

"""
Since 23 September, Ecuador has been hit by rolling blackouts, which peaked at the beginning of November, with power cuts lasting up to 14 hours a day, mainly during daylight and evening hours, when demand is highest.

The country – which gets about three-quarters of its electricity from hydropower – goes through one of its worst droughts in decades, and people struggle to adjust to the relentless blackouts.
"""

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/11/ecuador-energy-generation-power-sources-cuts-blackouts-drought-reliance-hydropower-adapt-diversify-protests

The international climate experts aren't.

I guess I need to find a replacement for my AeroGarden, now that it’s shutting down :/

Ontario's wind energy policies aren't working, unfairly burdening taxpayers with rising costs and inefficiencies. Time to rethink our approach to sustainable energy!

#OnPoli #EnergyPolicy #WindPower #TaxpayerFairness #Nuclear #Solar #Hydro

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/ontarios-wind-energy-policies-are-failing-taxpayers/

AGL issues warning on Duttons nuclear plan.

Power giant AGL says Australia has reached a critical juncture in the renewable energy transition and has no time to waste on the Coalition’s controversial pitch to build nuclear generators.

“The cost and the time of delays involved in nuclear assets are such that we simply cannot wait,” “We need to move ahead” with the rollout of renewables, she added.

#renewables #energy #solar #wind #hydro #nuclear #australia #auspol

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/energy-giant-issues-warning-on-dutton-nuclear-plan-20240925-p5kddz.html

I did some big refactoring of #WaterwayMapOrg code, and now it uses the `name` to connect up river basins! Here's the Nile, in one piece!
(if you look at WWM.org now, you'll see the Nile split in 2 in Lake Nasser)

A map of the Nile is relatively common, but this map is created 100% automatically from #OpenStreetMap data, and can be created for any river in the world.

A new electricity economics report at Macdonald-Laurier Institute: the Province should pay no more than CAD$46/MWh for wind generation in Ontario's nuclear & hydro-dominant grid.

#Nuclear #Wind #Hydro #Canada #EnergyTransition

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/chasing-the-wind-the-value-of-wind-generation-in-a-low-emission-nuclear-and-hydro-dominant-grid-the-case-of-ontario/