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Jan. 2, 2020

The AES Corporation, based in Virginia, installed the world’s largest solar-plus-storage system on the southern end of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A scaled-down version was first tested at NREL. Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL
An oft-repeated refrain—the sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow—is sometimes seen as an impediment to renewable energy. But it’s also an impetus toward discovering the best ways to store that energy until it’s needed.
Declining costs in available technologies have propelled interest in energy storage forward like never before. The price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen by about 80% over the past five years, enabling the integration of storage into solar power systems. Today, nearly 18% of all electricity produced in the United States comes from renewable energy sources, such as hydropower and wind—a figure that is forecast to climb. And as communities and entire states push toward higher percentages of power from renewables, there’s no doubt storage will play an important role.
Compared with the same period a year earlier, the United States saw a 93% increase in the amount of storage deployed in the third quarter of 2019. By 2024, that number is expected to top 5.4 gigawatts, according to a forecast by market research firm Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. The market value is forecast to increase from $720 million today to $5.1 billion in 2024. Driving such growth is an increased focus on adding renewable energy sources to the nation’s grid. Tiếp tục đọc “Declining Renewable Costs Drive Focus on Energy Storage”
A garment factory at the Yen Lap Industrial Zone in the northern province of Phu Tho. (Photo: baophutho.com.vn)Tiếp tục đọc “Material autonomy key for Vietnam to fully tap EVFTA”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHOeObudlI
The video chart above shows the stunning growth in both the total number of internet users between 1900 and 2019 and which countries had the largest total internet population.
In 1990, things looked rather different from today. Here are the top 10 countries and the number of users per country:
By 2019 both the mix of countries and total number of users have changed dramatically. Tiếp tục đọc “Top Countries By Number of Internet Users: 1990-2019”
TTO – Phân tích dự thảo Luật bảo vệ môi trường sửa đổi 2020, đại diện các mạng lưới, liên minh, tổ chức và nhà nghiên cứu hoạt động trong lĩnh vực môi trường, năng lượng, sức khỏe và pháp lý nhìn nhận dự luật này còn nhiều lý thuyết, ‘xa’ dân.
#Climatebreakthroughweek
Nguồn: https://www.climatebreakthroughproject.org/awardee/nguy-thi-khanh/
Chúng tôi vinh dự được chia sẻ thông tin, Climate Breakthrough Project vừa công bố hai giải thưởng mới của năm 2019: Bà Ngụy Thị Khanh của Việt Nam và Ông Arief Rabik của Indonesia. Cả hai sẽ nhận được 2 triệu đô la trong ba năm tới để thiết kế và đưa ra các sáng kiến toàn cầu.
Battery storage costs have evolved rapidly over the past several years, necessitating an update to storage cost projections used in long-term planning models and other activities. This work documents the development of these projections, which are based on recent publications of storage costs. The projections show a wide range of storage costs, both in terms of current costs as well as future costs. Although the range in projections is considerable, all projections do show a decline in capital costs, with cost reductions by 2025 of 10-52%. The cost projections developed in this work utilize the normalized cost reductions across the literature, and result in 21-67% capital cost reductions by 2030 and 31-80% cost reductions by 2050. The cost projections are also accompanied by assumed operations and maintenance costs, lifetimes, and round-trip efficiencies, and these performance metrics are benchmarked against other published values.
Download full report https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf
By Dana Nuccitelli, February 3, 2020
Long-exposure photo of the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity, and taken at 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16, 1945.
The heat absorbed in Earth’s oceans reached a new record in 2019, found a recent study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Despite the fact that this has been the case for almost every year over the past decade, this information dominated the news cycle, with some particularly viral headlines noting that the amount of energy accumulating in the oceans is equivalent to detonating five Hiroshima atomic bombs per second, every second over the past 25 years.
Tiếp tục đọc “Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second. Or two Hurricane Sandys.”
TTO – Đó là quan điểm của Ủy ban Pháp luật và Chủ nhiệm Ủy ban Tư pháp khi thẩm tra biện pháp cưỡng chế thi hành quyết định xử phạt vi phạm hành chính “ngừng cung cấp các dịch vụ điện, nước”.
Hoàng Thiên Nga
Rằm tháng Giêng mọi năm, thôn Hòa Liễu đều tổ chức Lễ hội Minh thề tưng bừng suốt 3 ngày đêm tại Miếu thờ Thành hoàng bản thổ. Còn Rằm năm nay, chúng tôi về vùng nông thôn nổi tiếng này vẫn thấy cờ hoa giăng mắc, nhưng cột đá thề vắng hoe trong nỗi buồn của Hội đồng bô lão.

Tiếng thơm còn mãi
Được công nhận là Di sản vi vật thể cấp Quốc gia, nhưng cho đến nay lễ Minh Thề vẫn chỉ do dân làng Hòa Liễu (xã Thuận Thiên, huyện Kiến Thuỵ, Hải Phòng) tự tổ chức. Tiếp tục đọc “Minh Thề, nơi dân tuyên thề chống tham nhũng”

There is no doubt the world is facing a climate emergency. We must all act now to shift to climate-smart growth by redirecting our current investment and financing flows towards the Paris Agreement. National development banks (NDBs) have huge untapped potential to support this transformation. But our new report finds that despite their collective firepower – which far exceeds that of the multilateral and bilateral development banking system – NDBs have yet to step out of the shadows and into the international and domestic limelight. It is now time for NDBs to claim their rightful place at the policy table.
Tiếp tục đọc “Three ways national development banks can unlock climate-smart growth”
A female flogging squad has enraged Indonesian activists. Authorities in the province say more women are committing “moral” offenses, which are punishable in Islamic-conservative Aceh by whipping or caning.
Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island follows Shariah law, an Islamic criminal code that includes “morality” offenses like gambling, adultery, drinking alcohol, and having gay or pre-marital sex.
Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesia’s Aceh enlists an all-female flogging squad to enforce Shariah law”