Published

2 years ago

March 28, 2024

Alice Rush

GameChange Solar (GCS) has had what the company calls certain performance enhancement features of its Genius Trackers validated by research and analysis firm Enertis, which examined the company’s proprietary algorithms for the tracker series.

The company says the report includes models estimating power production from three of its algorithms, as well as presented site analysis findings, comparing real production data from inverters to theoretical models.

It added that the report found the company’s PowerBoost algorithm, meant to enhance solar plant production during backtracking, demonstrated 5.5% annual gains. Its SmartStow algorithm for wind-stow method had estimated gains of 3.15% over a 45-degree stow and 0.73% over a 0-degree stow. The company’s WeatherSmart is said to show gains of 6.02% during overcast days.

“We are pleased to announce that Enertis’s comprehensive analysis confirms, through models and real production data, the efficacy of our proprietary algorithms,” says Derick Botha, CCO at GameChange Solar. “Our innovative control logic helps maximize energy generation, which is what every solar project owner cares about.”

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Concepts Can’t Violate the Laws of Physics

Published

9 hours ago

February 28, 2026

Alice Rush

In the early days of 2GreenEnergy, my people and I were vigorously engaged in finding solid ideas in cleantech that needed funding in order to move forward.

I vividly remember a conversation with a guy in Maryland who was trying to explain the (ostensible) breakthrough that he and his team had made in hydrokinetics. When I was having trouble visualizing what we was talking about, he asked me to “think of it as a river in a box.”

“Oh!” I exclaimed. “You mean you take a box full of standing water, add energy to it get it moving, then extract that energy, leaving you with more energy that you added to it.”

“Exactly.”

I politely explained that the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, make this impossible.

He wasn’t through, however, and insisted that, in his office, his people had constructed a “working model.”

Here’s where my tone descended into something less than 100% polite. I told him that he may think he has a working model, but he’s wrong; if he believes this, he’s ignorant; if he doesn’t, but is conducting this conversation anyway, he’s a fraud.

“But don’t you want to come see it?” he implored.

“No. Not only would not fly across the country to see whatever it is you claim to have built, I wouldn’t walk across the street to a “working model” of something that is theoretically impossible.”

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I tell this story because the claim made at the upper left is essentially identical. You’re pumping water up out of a stream, and then claiming to extract more energy when the water flows back into the stream.

Of course, social media today is rife with complete crap like this. We’ve devolved to a point where defrauding money out of idiots is rapidly replacing baseball as our national pastime.