Paul van Son
@pvson
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312ppm Never a dull moment in the energy transition a.o. Dii Desert Energy (Munich, Dubai). Zeta Global, Kaspa Kii, Africa Association, Geidco, EFET
Muelheim, Germany
Joined August 2009
If gold can really be ‘produced’ at lower cost than presently mined gold (like synthetic diamonds), it could dethrone gold as store of value. On the other hand it would make scars PoW crypto, like $BTC and $KAS, even more unique and valuable
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BMW employee: ‘If we had to reinvent the car today, it would never have a combustion engine. You need a lot of people to produce a petrol or diesel car, the supply chain is complicated with all those different parts, and to make it run, you also have to get energy from all
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Finland just switched on the world’s largest sand battery. 🇫🇮⚡️ Built by Polar Night Energy, it stores 100 MWh of heat — enough to power the town of Pornainen for a week — cutting emissions by 70%. Real innovation looks like this, not more oil rigs. https://t.co/Xt4E1Yy1KY
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Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's...
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🤔Social cost of carbon (SCC) is often debated and wide ranges are the norm. However, some hard facts are hard to ignore. Physical impacts of climate change cost the global economy at least $1.4 trillion last year. @DiiDesertEnergy @pvson
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Genau so ist es. Importe sind an sich ok, aber a. sie können wesentlich verringert werden und b. auf dauer wesentlich billiger und klimaneutral beschaffen werden @DiiDesertEnergy
Die, die jammern, die #Energiewende sei zu teuer, haben kein Problem, seit 1990 fast 2 Bio. € für #Energieimporte zu verbrennen. Investiert das Geld lieber in Deutschland – für Jobs, Innovationen und #Energieunabhängigkeit statt weiter in Erdgasheizungen und Verbrennerautos!
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Die, die jammern, die #Energiewende sei zu teuer, haben kein Problem, seit 1990 fast 2 Bio. € für #Energieimporte zu verbrennen. Investiert das Geld lieber in Deutschland – für Jobs, Innovationen und #Energieunabhängigkeit statt weiter in Erdgasheizungen und Verbrennerautos!
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China’s internal combustion car sales peaked in 2017 as electric vehicles took off— Electric cars have become incredibly popular in China. In 2020, one in eighteen new cars sold was electric. By 2024, this had increased to one in two. This growth has pushed down sales of
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Setting up a new $KAS node with my crypto, not Bitcoin friends Set up a public #Kaspa node!
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I'm surprised at the number of people in the PoW community who don't understand the difference between running a node vs. mining. Here's a simple explanation to clear it up 😊 Miners group transactions into blocks. They get paid for solving a complex math problem. For this,
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William Happer appeared on Joe Rogan recently and spread fossil fuel lobby group disinformation. Notes on Happer:
A 🧵This is William Happer. He works with a fossil fuel lobby group to mislead the public. He loves pretending that CO2 is good for the planet. Ironically human induced climate change deniers cite him without realising that Happer quietly admitted more CO2 causes rapid warming.
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The unique privilege of $KAS is its perspective of becoming at least as successful as $BTC, as it is cheaper, faster, consuming much less energy etc, plus being, on top of that, scalable and becoming a host for quasi unlimited high quality applications!
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What we have seen with $BTC is now taking place with $KAS. In that sense they are provisionally lookalikes 😉
Market psychology is insane Most people buy #Kaspa when the price is high and sell when the price is low Don't be like most people.
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Market psychology is insane Most people buy #Kaspa when the price is high and sell when the price is low Don't be like most people.
Market psychology is insane Most people buy Bitcoin when the price is high and sell when the price is low
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Very interesting. Is optimised cooling (shifting cooling energy around in the ‘load curve’) part of the paper?
New paper on the much lower cost, even in different climate zones, of 100% renewable microgrids that include heat pumps, battery storage, hydrogen storage with fuel cells, and thermal-energy storage, vs microgrids powered by diesel generators. https://t.co/5mlY7mZsKK
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Batteries have quickly become a totally integrated flexibility provider, monetarised through the ever more attractive dynamic pricing schemes in most power markets
When the system operator needs to buy energy to balance the grid close to delivery, how does the price of batteries compare with gas? Here’s the comparison for GB in September 2025. Average battery accepted offers were £33/MWh cheaper than gas, reducing costs for consumers.
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When the system operator needs to buy energy to balance the grid close to delivery, how does the price of batteries compare with gas? Here’s the comparison for GB in September 2025. Average battery accepted offers were £33/MWh cheaper than gas, reducing costs for consumers.
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Bioethanol aus Mais liefert 0.37 l/m2. Ein Benziner fährt damit max. 8 km weit und das ohne Berücksichtigung der Ernte- & der Herstellungsenergie. PV liefert >200 kWh/m2. Ein E-Auto fährt damit >120 km weit. Der Verbrenner ist 20 mal weniger effizient. https://t.co/n4LjvfZYgV
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One solar panel the size of a sheet of plywood can generate enough electricity to lift a person out of energy poverty. A single sheet of plywood. That’s how much space we’re talking about. 10 sheets of plywood per person for American levels of electricity. That’s not just
I don't think people realize how much power you can generate with a single solar panel. You can get panels that are over 700 watts now, and that's before bifacial gain. Cell efficiencies have increased substantially and panels are getting larger. More power per panel means
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