High Power Bills in California, Unreliable Service and Poor Maintenance

Winter storms in California knocked out power for more than 890,000 customers on Sunday—with more than half a million still without electricity on Monday. There are still about 140,000 without power today on Tuesday. As of January 2024, the average monthly electric bill in California is $190–$210, which is a 20% increase from 2023. The …

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Comparison of Current Space Based Solar Power Proposals

Here is a paper written by Virtus Solis, Space based solar power startup. Virtus Solis is a funded startup working to develop space based solar power. They would leverage the low cost launch of the SpaceX Starship and modular satellites to enable power to be beamed from space at lower cost than coal or natural …

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2027 Orbital Space Solar Power Demo by Virtus Solis and Orbital Composites

Silicon Valley startup Orbital Composites and Michigan-based Virtus Solis Technologies announced plans Feb. 1 to conduct a 2027 space-based solar power demonstration. The 2027 mission is designed to showcase critical power-generation technologies including in-space assembly of solar panels and transmission of more than one kilowatt to Earth. The 2027 mission will be a precursor to …

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China’s Solar and Wind Power Needs 1 Million Megapacks

At the end of October 2023, China’s NEA (National Energy Administration) reported China’s installed renewable energy capacity had exceeded 1.4 Terawatts. This capacity includes 420 GW of hydropower, 404 GW of wind power, 536 GW of solar, and 44 GW of biomass. China added 216.9 GW of solar capacity in 2023, marking a 148 % …

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Naive and Misguided Questions

There is a common internet accusation. I write some articles on a topic and then there is some accusation if there is a financial connection. These question are from naive people who do not understand the internet, journalism or business or viable scams. Are the sources above pretending to not have bias? Brian Wang, Do …

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Improved Solar Thermal Energy Storage Could Replace Coal Plants

New South Wales, Australia, reached a record high and more efficient critical milestone temperature of 803 °C for concentrated solar thermal energy storage. Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight, converting it to heat, which can then be stored or used to generate electricity. Heated ceramic particles act like a battery, storing energy …

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IVO, NASA, DARPA and Another Group Are All Working to Test Quantum Drive’s in Space

Here is information of the Quantized inertia drive and experiments. There is information from several of the papers, video discussions and direct communication that I, Brian Wang, had with Mike McCulloch. Mike McCulloch is working with two other teams planning to launch cubesats with propellentless thrusters, one of them with connections to NASA. DARPA is …

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Is the Barry-1 an Inexpensive Dark Matter Experiment? $3 Million Tests Quantized Inertia versus Billions on Dark Matter

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies simply wouldn’t make sense. Quantized Inertia is another theory for explaining the shape and behavior of stars, planets and …

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Tiled Titanium Sapphire Laser Amplification to Go Beyond the 10 Petawatt Limit to 40 PW or More

Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. “By adding a 2×2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high-energy laser amplifier in China’s SULF or EU’s ELI-NP, the current 10-petawatt can be further increased to 40-petawatt and the focused peak intensity can be increased by nearly 10 times …

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