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Post by missouriboy on Dec 8, 2020 18:45:15 GMT
Illinois is surprising. I suspect hot air.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 8, 2020 19:56:42 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 13, 2020 20:42:13 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 13, 2020 21:04:02 GMT
But wait there's more
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 16, 2020 17:48:04 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 24, 2020 19:29:28 GMT
"As China struggles with a surge in energy demand brought on by their economic recovery and a cold snap, the reputation of wind power has suffered a blow, as freezing temperatures covered wind turbines in Hunan with ice.
China’s winter chills clean energy transition as factories fire up
PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO
BEIJING/YIWU, CHINA (REUTERS) – China’s harsh winter and stunning manufacturing recovery this year have pushed up electricity demand across the country’s industrial belt, complicating Beijing’s drive to cut businesses’ power usage and their reliance on polluting coal-fired energy.
The surge in demand also comes as the cold hampers the ability of renewable energy to fill the gap left by a severe coal shortage, raising doubts about the reliability of cleaner sources to power the world’s second-largest economy during critical periods."More here wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/24/iced-covered-wind-turbines-hamper-chinas-efforts-to-retire-coal/
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 5, 2021 21:37:26 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s National Grid, which is responsible for ensuring supply and demand are balanced in Britain’s energy systems, has issued a tight electricity margin notice for Wednesday afternoon and evening. In a market message, National Grid said there is a reduced margin between the hours of 1600-1900 GMT on Wednesday, with a system shortfall of 584 megawatts. “An electricity margin notice is used to send a signal to the electricity market. It highlights that, in the short-term, we would like a greater safety cushion (margin) between power demand and available supply,” National Grid said. “It does not signal that blackouts are imminent or that there is not enough generation to meet current demand.” www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-power-idUKKBN29A1XZ
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 9, 2021 9:03:29 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 12, 2021 11:17:33 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 13, 2021 20:15:16 GMT
There's an interesting correlation
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 17, 2021 17:12:32 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 18, 2021 4:12:51 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 21, 2021 3:31:25 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 23, 2021 5:17:20 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 24, 2021 4:40:48 GMT
"Toxic secrets behind your mobile phone: Electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels... how our so-called green world depends on the mining of rare metals which is a filthy, amoral industry totally dominated by China
Past the suburbs of the Chinese city of Baotou, below a quadruple carriageway, a lonely path led me to an embankment bristling with pylons, each with a security camera watching for intruders.
This is how I reached the Weikuang Dam – an artificial lake into which metallic intestines regurgitate torrents of black water from the nearby refineries. I was looking at ten square kilometres of toxic effluent. After observing this immense, disintegrating landscape, my guide and I decided to move before the security cameras alerted the police to our presence.
A few minutes later, we arrived in a village called Dalahai on another side of the artificial lake. Here, the thousands of inhabitants breathe in the toxic discharge of the reservoir as well as eating produce, such as corn and buckwheat, grown in it.Cancer affects the local population and many villagers have died. The hair of young men barely aged 30 has suddenly turned white. Children grow up without developing any teeth.
One villager, a 54-year-old called Li Xinxia, confided in me despite knowing it’s a dangerous subject. He said: ‘There are a lot of sick people here. Cancer, strokes, high blood pressure… almost all of us are affected. We are in a grave situation. They did some tests and our village was nicknamed “the cancer village”. We know the air we breathe is toxic and that we don’t have that much longer to live.’
The provincial authorities offered villagers compensation to relocate but these farming folk were reluctant to move to high-rise flats in a neighbouring town.
In short, it is a disaster area.
And the reason? Our insatiable demand for rare metals."More here: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9179751/Toxic-secrets-mobile-phone-called-green-world-depends-mining-metals.html
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