Solar Plus Batteries Proven As the New Baseload
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Abstract
Solar plus batteries are having a breakthrough moment, signaling a major shift in global energy. An aluminum plant in Australia is moving to solar plus battery storage, making its production greener than ever.We also hear from a listener who connected his heat pump hot water heater to his HVAC system, proving once again that our audience is the smartest around. And in a groundbreaking development, scientists have achieved 100% lithium recycling, which could make EV battery production truly sustainable.Join The Clean Energy Show's CLEAN CLUB on Patreon for great rewards from Brian and James like our exclusive Patreon Podcast on Clean Energy!Meanwhile, a new millimeter-wave drilling technology could revolutionize geothermal energy by reaching depths conventional drills can't handle. Plus, we discuss fossil fuel subsidies in Canada and Alberta's premier's threats to national unity over green policies.Topics This Week:Solar plus battery storage powering an aluminum plant in AustraliaA listener shares his heat pump water heater and HVAC integration100% lithium recycling breakthrough for EV batteriesMillimeter-wave technology for next-gen geothermal drillingCanada's ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and Alberta's political maneuversListener Mail: Roshan Gervais shares his experience with a heat pump hot water heater in Edmonton, how it affects his home's temperature, and how he integrated it with his furnace ducts for cooling benefits in summer.Lightning Round:China is expanding its grid to keep up with its solar boomMercedes-Benz unveils its most affordable and advanced EV sedanGermany locks its net-zero goals into the constitutionTrump's plan to kill clean energy tax credits could spike U.S. household energy costsChina's Sinopec halts Russian oil purchasesTesla deliveries drop 43% in Europe, while EV sales rise 28%BYD advances silicon-ion battery technology for improved safety and durabilityUK announces its first national forest in 30 yearsGlobal building sector emissions stop rising for the first time since 2020Landmark youth climate lawsuit in the U.S. comes to an end, but leaves a lasting impactJoin the Conversation:Email us at CleanEnergyShow@gmail.comLeave a voicemail at speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshowJoin our Patreon for ad-free episodes, bonus content, and community discussions: https://www.patreon.com/c/cleanenergypodFollow us on social media: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleanenergypod, https://www.instagram.com/cleanenergypod/, https://www.youtube.com/c/thecleanenergyshow, https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIGJi8pZ9EmiJTPY4VOr5, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-clean-energy-show/id1498854987
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.061 | 0.088 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".