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Post by Ratty on Dec 15, 2018 1:20:18 GMT
Conclusions This report analyses the possible impacts of decarbonising EU related shipping on the primary renewable energy production and concludes that a mix of alternative zero emission technologies including batteryelectric, liquid hydrogen and ammonia would cause the least additional strain on the broader energy system. Synthetic fuels such as electro-methane and electro-diesel, on the other hand, would be the least optimal for the broader energy system and also extremely difficult to monitor and enforce.
Maritime transport is only one of the many sectors of the economy that will need to rely on primary renewable energy in order to decarbonise. Together with other sectors this will add tremendous additional stress on the renewable electricity production, possibly an order of magnitude higher than the current electricity production sector, which itself is yet to fully decarbonise. In addition to improving the efficiency of shipping as much as possible, it is therefore essential in our view that any regulatory and economic policies to support any of the technology pathways analysed in this report take account of this impact and prioritise those which minimise the impact on primary energy demand.To paraphrase: It's all too hard.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 15, 2018 9:31:54 GMT
... What? Do the termites get a pardon, FordMan? It isn't that termite colonies are small and transient.... "Termites in Brazil have covered an area the size of Britain in mounds""In the dry forests of northeastern Brazil, an area of 230,000 square kilometres – larger than Great Britain – is covered in 200 million regularly spaced mounds, each about 2.5 metres tall. These mounds, known to locals as murundus, are the waste earth dug out by termites to create a vast network of underground tunnels, and some of them are up to 4000 years old." www.newscientist.com/article/2185895-termites-in-brazil-have-covered-an-area-the-size-of-britain-in-mounds/Humanity does have a serious case of conceit. Name a human structure anywhere in the world that is 4000 years old, the size of UK, and, that is still in continual use.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 15, 2018 21:08:02 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 16, 2018 1:08:30 GMT
Ooh ooh that smell. Time to bring out Lynyrd again.
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Post by Ratty on Dec 16, 2018 1:11:23 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 16, 2018 2:48:15 GMT
On a shingle.
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 16, 2018 16:55:43 GMT
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/16/health/sutter-cop24-climate-talks/index.htmlSome negotiators emphasized that only four countries stood up to decline welcoming the science. If the climate talks were not guided by consensus, that would be a fringe view, they said. There actually is wide agreement on the importance of these reports -- both among governments and the public, said Teresa Ribera, Spain's minister for ecological transition. "You cannot contradict what has been said by science," she said. "It is fact."
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 29, 2018 17:17:19 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 29, 2018 21:14:55 GMT
The USA has reduced carbon dioxide output by more than any other country in the developed world, unlike China and India and many states in the European Union who are moving more to coal. The only thing that the USA is not doing is funneling funds to 'The Green [slush] Fund' that was intended to keep climate 'scientists' and potentates of small developing nations in the manner to which they have become accustomed. So the bad news is that they are not going to get their slush fund. Note there is *nothing* whatsoever to do with climatological effects real or imaginary - just lack of slush fund.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 30, 2018 2:04:44 GMT
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/16/health/sutter-cop24-climate-talks/index.htmlSome negotiators emphasized that only four countries stood up to decline welcoming the science. If the climate talks were not guided by consensus, that would be a fringe view, they said. There actually is wide agreement on the importance of these reports -- both among governments and the public, said Teresa Ribera, Spain's minister for ecological transition. "You cannot contradict what has been said by science," she said. "It is fact." I like her title. Minister for Ecological Transition. It decomposes so easily. 😎
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Post by Ratty on Dec 30, 2018 3:53:47 GMT
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/16/health/sutter-cop24-climate-talks/index.htmlSome negotiators emphasized that only four countries stood up to decline welcoming the science. If the climate talks were not guided by consensus, that would be a fringe view, they said. There actually is wide agreement on the importance of these reports -- both among governments and the public, said Teresa Ribera, Spain's minister for ecological transition. "You cannot contradict what has been said by science," she said. "It is fact." I like her title. Minister for Ecological Transition. It decomposes so easily. 😎 ... a famous person once said " Hypotheses gather adherents like carcasses gather worms". Can't remember who.
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 6, 2019 11:08:27 GMT
A good question by Katie Hopkins about the media inability to report les gilets Jaunes. The reason is that the French will take to the streets a lot more rapidly than other nationalities. But if Townie greens (and there are a lot of them in UK and in East and West coasts of the US) push for the kind of rapid political virtue signalling that Macron tried, the same would happen in their countries. Imagine for a moment the effect of gasoline prices in the US being artificially raised by a Bernie Sanders government to $10 a gallon with forecasts that it would be pushed to $20 or even $30 a gallon based on what Al Gore is saying. The politicians would not want to go back to their states from the safe townie and all Democrat DC - I suspect that the political class especially the posturing grandstanding types in the current Congress, who probably admire globalist open borders Macron, do not realize how close to the edge they are. The media have an inkling and do not want les Gilet Jaunes to appear in this or other countries - they may be too late in the EU.
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Post by Ratty on Jan 6, 2019 12:38:46 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 7, 2019 0:22:49 GMT
"CLEXIT: Canada Must Get Out of the Paris Climate Agreement. I am proud to be the Canadian representative for the climate exit (CLEXIT) movement. Canada has more culpability than any other nation in creating and perpetuating the deception. It is not hyperbole to say that Canada was central to creating and mobilizing the false claim of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). The idea that humans were causing runaway global warming originated with the Club of Rome. Formed in 1968 by David Rockefeller, it expanded on the Malthusian idea that the population would outgrow the food supply. The expansion was that world population would outgrow all resources. They made three major assumptions. The demand for resources would increase every year because the population is increasing every year. Developed nations increase the demand by using resources at a much greater rate than developing nations. More nations are changing from developing to developed and accelerating demand."Much much more at drtimball.com/
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 24, 2019 18:07:36 GMT
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