Future Tech

New tech: automation, robotics, 3dprint, gaming, data, IoT, blockchain. Clean tech & energy: efficiency, wind, solar, storage, built environment, transport, EVs

[Future Tech @FSS_Tech]

Solar has created the fastest shift in electricity generation in history
And solar growth still accelerating
Driven by increasing volume + scale + falling cost from China
Don't trust projections that show slowing growth
Volumes growing, prices falling
https://t.co/LNpcYXBoYp

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Hybrids were only ever a waypoint, and their story is often misunderstood

Hybrids are temporary solutions
PHEVs are conditional transition vehicles

As capability grows, BEVs are the final answer.
https://t.co/NfiJjnewtw @TheDriven_io

@ProfRayWills @leRaffl @PeterNewmanCUSP

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Productivity is a means, not the destination. The true value of an economy is the benefit it delivers to people

Judge reforms by whether they lower real costs, improve household affordability and deliver lasting gains - and ask who benefits. And when.

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

The year of reckoning of motor sport based on ICE is coming

Once 50% of car sales are battery electric, where's the value in promoting the lesser performance of internal combustion engines?

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Retire the clunkers - but make the transition fair

Targeted EV replacement scheme can cut transport costs, improve road safety and accelerate fleet renewal

Retire, Recycle, Replace, Recharge

Ray Wills, Peter Newman & Howard Buckley
https://t.co/p1UbxTj88a @TheDriven_io

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Still Australia's largest solar hybrid DC connected battery project

Cunderdin project to Global Power Generation (GPG) owned by @Naturgy

Hybrid 125 MWdc PV solar + 55 MW / 220 MWh battery

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Retire the clunkers - but make the transition fair
https://t.co/A2lXQ5bUsx

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

Australia’s first major transmission loop is now operating, and will be at full capacity by the end of the year, bringing a major change in the way the grid operates
https://t.co/B8V1Pe0MpX

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Sigh
It's not a passing unseasonal dry spell
It's a long-term drying climate
Data is clear
Incontrovertible
Farmers not taking action on climate change asleep at the wheel
Farmers supporting absence of political action backing long term end to what they do
https://t.co/CLC6di282z

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Environmental Doomsday Clock 2026
Asahi Glass Foundation survey records renewed deterioration in expert environmental risk perception

The Doomsday Clock does not say the world lacks environmental knowledge or technical options, but an unwillingness to prosecute the solutions

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

The next race is not for liquid fuels
It is for cheap electrons

Global evidence shows electrification is no longer a distant or marginal pathway

The deployment of solar and batteries now represents the fastest energy shift in human history

https://t.co/DUqC3LWVsv

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Houthi attacks are a historic moment for an oil-free future
The Middle East crisis is Australia’s opportunity to transition to electrification for freight, agriculture and mining.

Peter Newman and Ray Wills
https://t.co/Q6sdd8jxfb

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

The PHEV emissions problem is not the plug in the hybrid

It's the ‘plug-in maybes’

Latest EU data on plug-in hybrids show real-world fuel use & emissions far higher than lab results suggest

(But PHEVs still little cleaner than regular ICE & hybrids)
https://t.co/Y4FHpTJrCq

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

The case for legalising plug-in solar and batteries now clear: portable energy devices can help households use cheaper midday electricity and reduce what they buy from the grid
And renters deserve it
https://t.co/KsoUZTQlB0 @renew_economy

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

Perth-based logistics giant Centurion is backing plans to build the first electric heavy freight charging network in Western Australia, which would comprise an initial three 12-bay charging networks between Perth and Bunbury to the south
https://t.co/kG5Qa0qwOP

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

Fossil fuel hierarchy is collapsing as the EV fleet crocodile meets the renewable grid crocodile
By Ray Wills and Peter Newman
@TheDriven_io

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

We're living thru the fastest energy transition in human history; we're still having difficulty accepting that it can be this fast

5 years ago, getting it wrong didn't take you terribly far into the wrong direction into the future
From here on, it'll be scary if you get it wrong

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

"Microphones left running at 12 ecovoltaic solar farms in the Midwest heard nearly twice as many grassland bird species as the corn and soybean fields beside them, and more than 230 nests sat on the racking." https://t.co/3shA5rBjtY

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

Renewables get built Nuclear gets talked about. This is the reason fossil fuel lobbyists usually support Nuclear.

Global build program now to 2030
Solar 6200GW
Wind 2000GW
BESS 2000GW
Hydro 290GW
Nuclear 180GW

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

Plans to add batteries to three-quarters of the turbines at a proposed 298 MW wind farm have won two key approvals, paving the way for what will likely be Australia’s first grid-scale hybrid wind and battery project
https://t.co/s6lE8TYeEU

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

The H5N1 Bird Flu Challenge – Chooks Or Wildlife? 
Prof Ray Wills and Prof Peter Newman https://t.co/z1KplFjiTo