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Post by nautonnier on Feb 8, 2019 21:05:12 GMT
www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11548807424?ns=prod/accounts-wsjDumb environmental policies are routine across Europe—see Emmanuel Macron’s riot-inducing fuel tax in France—but even by that standard Germany’s new plan to abandon coal is notable. Having wasted uncountable billions of euros on renewables and inflicted some of Europe’s highest energy prices on German households and businesses, now Berlin is promising to kill the one reliable power source Germany has left. That plan comes via a blue-ribbon commission that recommended over the weekend that Germany phase out coal-fired power generation by 2038. Coal currently accounts for 40% of Germany’s electricity, by far the highest proportion in northern Europe. To the extent this is creating an environmental crisis, it’s a result of more than a decade of bad green policy choices. The phase out of coal and reliable baseload power, will match the phase out of heavy industry and car manufacture in Germany. Of course it is the deindustrialization of Germany that is the aim.
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Post by birder on Feb 8, 2019 21:31:04 GMT
They'll need to keep on good terms with Russia or they won't have any gas either.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 9, 2019 5:44:18 GMT
" UK unprepared for surge in electric car use, thinktank warns
Green Alliance says simultaneous charging could potentially damage electronic equipment unless action is taken by 2020 The UK’s energy networks are not ready for a surge in electric cars and solar panels that is coming within the next few years, according to a report.
Clusters of the battery powered cars could result in 1% of the UK experiencing unplanned drops in voltage – potentially damaging electronic equipment – without action by 2020, the Green Alliance said.
The thinktank warned that as few as six electric vehicles located near one another, most likely in an affluent neighbourhood, could lead to such “brownouts”."www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/20/uk-unprepared-for-surge-in-electric-car-use-thinktank-warnsSo action has to be taken within 18 months to upgrade the national grid for electric car charging...... It looks like AOC is not alone in her New Green Deal unicorn phart thinking - upgrade a national electric grid in 18 months???
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Post by Ratty on Feb 9, 2019 6:37:58 GMT
Imagine what would happen to Australia's fragile grid.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 9, 2019 10:00:00 GMT
Imagine what would happen to Australia's fragile grid. It is so blatantly obvious that if you remove baseload power replacing it with intermittent renewables, while at the same time increasing demand for baseload power, that the grid is going to be pushed over the edge with increasing frequency - that it must be a deliberate strategy.
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 11, 2019 13:04:45 GMT
Renewable Storage Myth Busted: Elon Musk’s Great Battery Conjob Exposed
We’re now told the solution to the chaos delivered by wind and solar is giant lithium-ion batteries, of the kind peddled by Elon Musk. The reefer-smoking, Californian carpetbagger managed to offload one unit in wind power obsessed, South Australia, collected $150 million, and was never seen again.
"The world’s biggest battery continued to dribble out around 30MW until 7.30pm, then it ran flat, rendering it completely useless as peak demand hit at 7.30pm."stopthesethings.com/2019/02/11/renewable-storage-myth-busted-elon-musks-great-battery-conjob-exposed/
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 18, 2019 11:05:35 GMT
" Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind & Solar Energy Date: 18/02/19
Stop These Things & Jo Nova When the world’s richest entrepreneur says wind and solar will never work, it’s probably time to listen.
Make no mistake, Bill Gates totally believes the climate change scare story but even he can see that renewables are not the answer, it’s not about the cost, it’s the reliability. He quotes Vaslav (possibly Vaclav Smil?): Here’s Toyko, 27 million people, you have three days of a cyclone every year. It’s 23GW of electricity for three days. Tell me what battery solution is going sit there and provide that power. As Gates says: Let’s not jerk around. You’re multiple orders of magnitude — … — That’s nothing, that doesn’t solve the reliability problem."www.thegwpf.com/bill-gates-slams-unreliable-wind-solar/" Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming, says Bill Gates The interview by Arun Majumdar, co-director of Stanford Energy’s Precourt Institute for Energy, which organized the conference, can be watched here.
When financial analysts proposed rating companies on their CO2 output to drive down emissions, Gates was appalled by the idea that the climate and energy problem would be easy to solve. He asked them: “Do you guys on Wall Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer, cement, plastic going to come from? Do planes fly through the sky because of some number you put in a spreadsheet?” “The idea that we have the current tools and it’s just because these utility people are evil people and if we could just beat on them and put (solar panels) on our rooftop—that is more of a block than climate denial,” Gates said. “The ‘climate is easy to solve’ group is our biggest problem.”joannenova.com.au/2019/02/gates-on-renewables-how-would-tokyo-survive-a-3-day-typhoon-with-unreliable-energy/
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 18, 2019 15:24:59 GMT
GOOD SHOT BILL! (embedded video 2)
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 22, 2019 8:14:16 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Feb 22, 2019 13:49:44 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 1, 2019 14:36:45 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Mar 1, 2019 21:49:04 GMT
Agree and here's a TED talk by Shellenberger:
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 1, 2019 23:42:57 GMT
Agree and here's a TED talk by Shellenberger: One of the children of the damned came home sane. There should be a party.
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 2, 2019 9:50:25 GMT
Agree and here's a TED talk by Shellenberger: One of the children of the damned came home sane. There should be a party. The more qualified ones have been doing that for some time - it is rare for the media to report it. Unfortunately they are outnumbered by those with a degree in " Do you want fries with that". It is readily apparent that if you want to have continuous grunt baseload power of the type that will drive heavy industries such as metal foundries, it cannot come from a variable diffuse power source. The current green energy cannot even replicate itself - steel for the subsidy farms and thousands and thousands of kilometers of heavy duty high voltage cables held on yet more steel pylons and all on concrete bases. "Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs
Comment Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible.
Both men are Stanford PhDs, Ross Koningstein having trained in aerospace engineering and David Fork in applied physics. These aren't guys who fiddle about with websites or data analytics or "technology" of that sort: they are real engineers who understand difficult maths and physics, and top-bracket even among that distinguished company. The duo were employed at Google on the RE<C project, which sought to enhance renewable technology to the point where it could produce energy more cheaply than coal.
RE<C was a failure, and Google closed it down after four years. Now, Koningstein and Fork have explained the conclusions they came to after a lengthy period of applying their considerable technological expertise to renewables, in an article posted at IEEE Spectrum.
The two men write:
At the start of RE<C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today’s renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope ...
Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach." www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/This is precisely what Shellenberger said in his article and TED talk. This won't stop the virtue signalling politicians from mainly first world countries (funny that **) from breaking into a sprint to the cliff edge to throw their countries off - as we have seen in Australia where they are even demolishing coal powered generation - these idiot politicians are happily betting the farm on 'Renewable energy technologies [that] simply won’t work'. **There is one country that has not done this and that is China which strangely managed to get agreement that it could build coal fired power stations for the next 20 years at around 1 every 10 days - while making totally fake virtue signalling noises and happily selling subsidy farm markers to the 'first' world. The country that Maurice Strong - the author of Agenda 21 'retired to'. One might almost think it was planned Trump is trying very hard to stop 'the green new deal' crowd from pushing USA over that cliff too as they make an extra run at it.
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Post by blustnmtn on Mar 13, 2019 16:28:53 GMT
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