Electricity

The unique position we are in Australia, our sun and wind together allows us to have arguably the cheapest source of renewable energy on the planet.

Coupled with the reduction in the cost of battery storage, we are landing the cost of Electron to electrify our iron ore business now to a point where internally without reliance on any foreign export or import into Australia to fully and self-sufficiently cater for the iron ore business.

And we're on the cusp now of getting that electron to the price point that the hydrogen makes economic sense for us to make liquid steel here in West Australia.

In fact, a month ago, our first liquid green metal was poured and granulated using the sun, the wind best to produce hydrogen.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885, by Various.

Rapid Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway by E.T. Abbott, member of the Engineers Club of Minnesota, read December 12, 1884.

During the winter of 1881 and 1882, the contract was let to Messrs. Langdon, Shepard & Company of Minneapolis to construct during the working season of the latter year or prior to january first eighteen eighty three five hundred miles of railroad on the western extension of the above company the contract being for the grading bridging track laying and servicing also including the laying of the necessary depot sidings and their grading the idea that any such amount of road could be built in that country in that time was looked upon by the writer hereof as well as by railroad men generally as a huge joke, perpetrated to gall the Canadians.

At the time the contract was let, the Canadian Pacific Railway was in operation to Brandon, the crossing of the Assiniboine River, 132 miles west of Winnipeg.

American engineer.

The Osgood Excavator.

At a recent meeting of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia, Mr. John C. Troutwine Jr. exhibited and described drawings of a large land dredge built by the Osgood Dredge Company of Albany, New York, for the Pacific Guano Company, to be used in removing 8 to 15 feet of material from the phosphate rock at Bull River, South Carolina.

the more prominent features of the machine are the car body the water tank boiler and engine the a frame so called from its slight resemblance to the letter a the boom the dipper handle and the dipper drawings of which were shown and described in detail before the excavation is begun the forward end of the car the end nearest the dipper is lifted clear of the track by means of three screw jacks when the machine has excavated as far in advance of itself as the length of the boom and that of the dipper handle will permit say about eight feet the car is again lowered to the track the screw jacks removed and the car is moved forward about eight feet by winding the rope upon the drum the other end of the rope being attached to any suitable fixed object near the line of the track the forward end of the car is then again lifted by means of the three screw jacks and the digging is resumed the machine cuts a channel from twenty five to thirty five feet wide and deposits all the dirt upon one side if necessary it can dump earth about twenty five feet above the track the miners follow in the wake of the machine getting out the phosphate as fast as it is uncovered when the machine reaches the end of the field it is lowered to the track and the screw jacks are removed shoes or skids are then placed upon the track and the wheels of the turntable are run up on them this lifts the end wheels clear of the track so that the car and machine rest entirely upon the turntable by now blocking the turntable wheels and winding up only one of the ropes the car body and the machine are swung around end for end the digging is then resumed in the opposite direction the temporary track upon which the machine travels being shifted to one side so that the second channel is made alongside of the first the earth removed in cutting this second channel is dumped into the first channel the phosphate as stated above having been first removed the dipper is of plate steel and holds one and three quarter cubic yards of earth when even full the machine is manned by an engineer a fireman and a dipper tender besides which from five to ten labourers are required these look after the track c

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Azerbaijan advances €22bn renewable electricity corridor to Europe.

Azerbaijan and its partners have completed a feasibility study for a proposed green energy corridor linking the Caspian region with Europe.

Presented in Baku on 22 October, the project would connect Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, and Hungary through approximately 3,000 kilometers of electricity infrastructure, including cables beneath the Black Sea.

Estimated investment requirements total €22.1 billion, although financing remains uncommitted.

A final investment decision is targeted for 2029.

The corridor could expand Europe's access to renewable electricity while strengthening Azerbaijan's position beyond oil and gas.

It also illustrates how Europe's energy security strategy is increasingly extending from pipelines to international electricity networks.

That's interesting.

Electricity could be used locally to power railroad equipment, monitoring systems, industrial facilities, or possibly contribute to the electrical grid.

And Regen Tracks, again, that's the name of the company, has built a working prototype, but the technology is still undergoing engineering, testing, and development.

And this reminds me, Ben, folks, if you're new to the show, a lot of what we look at is early research, twinkle-in-the-eye stuff, may not be deployed or available in your local stores right now, but something to watch as a development.

A win-win.

Very cool.

And our last honorable mention comes from Electric.

That's E-L-E-C-T-R-E-K.

That's to tell you that we're making progress.

Mr. Degbile, thank you for joining us and for sharing your perspective on electricity reforms, investment and importance of building energy systems that serve both economies and consumers.

Your

insights have helped us to look beyond just the policy announcements to the wider questions of regulation, reliability and the future of electricity markets.

So thank you to the good folks at Danella for making this possible.

Greetings, I'm Steve VanCore, and this is the Florida Public PowerCast, a production of the Florida Municipal Electric Association.

If you're a regular listener, you know that each episode we sit down with leaders and experts from Florida's public power communities, and we explore issues, innovations, hot topics, all those things that are affecting our state's energy future.

Today, we're visiting with Ricky Erickson, He's the incoming, he's the FMEA incoming vice president and is also the chief electric systems officer at JEA.

Thank you for asking me.

Tell me what you do.

So today, as you said, my title, Chief Electric Systems Officer.

I'm over all the electric production, generation, transmission, distribution of electricity at JEA.

A ball can technically be an infinite-sided dice.

maybe the real person who discovered electricity first at some point died of a shock in the process and we don't know about it

all risks are calculated ones but some people are terrible at math

being an adult is eating the crust not because you like it but because you paid for it

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... electricity.

You hear? It's small thinking.

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I will allow you to waste water, electricity, and food-

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... as long as you think bigger.