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Schneider: The infrastructure bill allocated ~$2.5B for hydropower upgrades and development
“So yes, I think in the infrastructure bill, which was passed two years ago, there was a very big chunk of money directly for upgrading hydro and making various improvements and in, in, in existing hydro as well as advancing development. Something like two and …”
Bartholomew: Average age of HVAC installers and plumbers is 55
“You know, the average age is 55 right now for an HVAC installer or a plumber.”
O'Donnell: Roughly 80% of industrial heat is below 350 degrees Celsius
“Something like 80% of industrial heat is in the low to mid mid range temperatures below about 350 C.”
Lubershain: Midwest heat pump adoption rose from 5% to 20%
“Back in 2000, you know, at the turn of the century, heat pump adoption, you know, in or, you know, for new, new heating systems in, say, the U.S. Midwest, relatively cold climate area, was at about five percent. And by the late aughts, you know, 2009, 20 10, i…”
Webber: Coal plants now store only 15 to 30 days of coal
“And these coal plants in the old days maybe stored 60 days worth of coal on site. These days they store like 15 to 30 days.”
Jaffe: Over 60 startup companies are developing silicon anode batteries
“There's over 60 of them... Just silicon anode. Over 60 companies that we track and try to make an analysis of”
Lubershane: Global nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer use nearly doubled since 1984
“The amount of fertilizer we use in both nitrogen fertilizer and phosphate-based fertilizer has increased by about that same percentage. So it's about doubled not quite over that period.”
Kann: Total US energy storage deployed today is under two gigawatt-hours
“For reference, we have a total of less than two gigawatt hours of energy storage in the US overall.”
Schroeder: California Installed Its First Large Eight-Hour Lithium-Ion System
“Though I noticed just this week, California installed its first large eight-hour lithium-ion system.”
Yao: Lithium makes up only ~7% of a lithium-ion cell's mass
“Lithium is only about seven percent, right, of by mass of lithium-ion cell.”
Berdichevsky: Only 2,000 to 3,000 EVs were sold worldwide in 2011
“There were about 2003 thousand electric cars sold worldwide, right? Not 100,200 thousand, but, you know, just 2003 thousand. So you know, we're talking you know, almost no vehicles.”