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A growing list of major companies — not just limited to finance — are facing ire from Republican officials at the state and federal levels for their stances on climate and issues such as race, voting rights and guns.
‘Bad-faith political attacks’
In Washington, House Republicans who will be in the majority next year are eyeing hearings and a suite of bills to pressure the investment firms.
The asset managers “do have a very defensible case as to why they should be considering climate and sustainability risk in investing practices,” said Sierra Club campaign director Ben Cushing, who advocates for financial firms to stop backing fossil fuel projects. “They didn’t do a very good job of just explaining that, and they’re allowing themselves to be bullied by these bad-faith political attacks.”
The GOP’s criticism of big money managers centers on the sway they hold over corporate America. The firms manage their clients’ investments in legions of publicly traded companies and, because of that, have a big say in how the companies are run through the shareholder voting process.
That economic influence is in focus for Republicans because the large asset managers have incorporated environmental, social and governance — or ESG — goals into their investing practices.
The most prominent leader of the shift is BlackRock’s Fink, a Democrat who has used his perch at the $7.9 trillion asset management firm to push companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to disclose their practices on social issues.
He has argued that it’s not just good for society but also good for investors — among them the company’s clients including pension funds, endowments and governments.
BlackRock said that under Fink’s leadership it has delivered a cumulative total return to shareholders of 7,700 percent since 1999 “by consistently putting clients’ interests first.”
More at https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/gops-anti-woke-crusade-splits
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There was a time – a recent time – when concern about the environment was relatively bipartisan, not a cultural flashpoint.
A Republican, President Richard Nixon, established the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. In the 1980s and 1990s, bipartisan majorities voted to strengthen the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, led by a Republican – Rhode Island’s Sen. John Chafee.
Those days are gone, and today a wide range of misleading statements and outright lies about the reality of human-caused climate change circulate widely.
The sheer volume of misinformation can distort perceptions of how many people don't believe the science that shows the Earth's climate is changing because of human activity, said Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas Tech University.
"I call them 'zombie arguments' because you can explain that they're not true but they still go stumbling around because they're not about facts but excuses," she said.
More at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/29/global-warming-m
yths-disinformation-and-lies-circulated-2022/10802959002/
Why would people need excuses (see the above article) for not fixing the climate change problem?
People say they take climate change seriously, but if you put an actual dollar figure on fixing the problem, even $10 per month is too much for 70% of the population.
Annual look at the growth of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It still doesn't look like emissions are slowing down, does it? 
https://jabberwocking.com/top-ten-charts-of-2022/
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Why would people need excuses (see the above article) for not fixing the climate change problem?
My friend, the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV
~Sheryl Crow
That's why.
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If you seriously ever want to get the EV thing off the ground, it's never going to be more than an expensive failure until nuclear power plants are put up everywhere. And they'd better not be rushed or given to non-union outfits that hire criminal illegal invader scabs either. This would be decades in the making if you broke ground tomorrow.
Maybe by that time the battery tech will be sustainable. Because in its current form it is not.
I couldn't even imagine the costs, but the $900 Billion Biden* just gave to the War Machine would have been a good start.
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The year the U.S. became the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas
Inside Climate News reports:
In the first half of the year, the United States became the world’s top exporter of liquified natural gas, or LNG. Then, in September, crude oil exports hit an all-time high when the country sent abroad about 4 million barrels per day.
The sharp rise in crude oil and natural gas exports has been supported by a bipartisan consensus that has spanned three consecutive presidential administrations, each of which has viewed energy exports as a lever of foreign policy. More than anything, though, it is the culmination of a sustained campaign by the oil industry that has seen production soar even as domestic demand for its fuels threatens to decline.
“This is all about industry staking a claim to a future role,” said Josh Axelrod, senior advocate in the nature program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Domestic gasoline consumption has plateaued or even begun to decline, he pointed out, and natural gas use is expected to do the same soon. “There’s no growth opportunity for oil in the U.S. market,” Axelrod said, “so securing export destinations and capacity is one of their many tactics to stay active and growing even as climate change gets worse.”
More at https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01012023/liquified-natural-gas-lng-
exports-2022/
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Quote:Americans have expressed themselves and the Federal government listened. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are willing to pay $1 per month to save America from the effects of excessive greenhouse gases, but at a higher price, there isn't majority support. Americans also want the price of gasoline lowered by $1 per gallon. The majority of Americans got both desires fulfilled by bipartisan politics.
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bipartisan
Yup.
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bipartisan
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Hey. You want to fix it, you'd better come up with a REAL fucking way to do it that is going to be affordable for the 50% of Americans who make less than $35k per year.
Unaffordable Coal burning cars that will make the price of household electricity skyrocket that can't possibly be supported by the current power grid infrastructure that is barely making due without tens of millions of these things on the road every day is not a legitimate answer.
Maybe you could figure it out if you weren't sending hundreds of Billions to Ukraine and Trillions to Rayethon and Boeing to make better killing machines, or enriching Pfizer to make more boner pills and happy pills that turn regular people into monsters.
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Quote:In the Firefly Universe, poor people travel in vehicles that either belch smoke or are pulled by methane and CO2 venting horses. It is the rich who have zero emission vehicles on the Firefly TV show. Back to Earth in a country ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-income-by-co
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey. You want to fix it, you'd better come up with a REAL fucking way to do it that is going to be affordable for the 50% of Americans who make less than $35k per year.
Unaffordable Coal burning cars that will make the price of household electricity skyrocket that can't possibly be supported by the current power grid infrastructure that is barely making due without tens of millions of these things on the road every day is not a legitimate answer.
Maybe you could figure it out if you weren't sending hundreds of Billions to Ukraine and Trillions to Rayethon and Boeing to make better killing machines, or enriching Pfizer to make more boner pills and happy pills that turn regular people into monsters.
untry ) where most people are rich:
80% of new cars sold in Norway are now electric vehicles
January 3, 2023 / 7:18 AM / AFP
Oslo, Norway — Electric vehicles accounted for almost four out of every five new car registrations in Norway last year, setting a new record, according to figures released Monday. Led by U.S. carmaker Tesla, which topped the list with a 12.2% market share, 138,265 new electric cars were sold in the Scandinavian country last year, representing 79.3% of total passenger car sales, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) said in a statement.
In doing so, Norway, which is both a major producer of oil and gas, as well as a pioneer for zero-emission cars, comfortably beat the previous record of 64.5% set in 2021.
Comparatively, electric cars made up just 8.6% of new car registrations in the European Union over the first nine months of 2022.
Shift to EVs too slow to avoid "climate catastrophe," report says
In December alone, electric cars hogged 82.8% of sales as Norwegian households rushed to buy them before a tax change came into force in 2023.
Norway aims for all new cars to be "zero emission" — in other words, electric or hydrogen - by 2025.
"Eight out of 10 people choosing fully electric instead of combustion engines is a considerable step towards Norway reaching its climate goal of 100% BEV [battery electric vehicle] sales in 2025," said Christina Bu, Secretary General of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association.
Enough chargers? EV push fuels infrastructure concerns
"Our message to the rest of the world is crystal clear: Now there is no excuse for the internal combustion engines' unnecessary pollution when the climate crisis is so urgent to solve," she said in a statement.
To promote sales in Norway, EVs have benefitted from being tax-free, as well as being charged lower fares for road tolls and public parking.
But with their popularity growing, and subsequent loss of income for the state, Norwegian authorities have started to roll back some of the benefits.
As of January 1, the 25% sales tax exemption on the purchase of new electric vehicles applies only to the first 500,000 Norwegian kroner (about $50,500) of the price.
About one in five cars on Norwegian roads are currently electric.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-vehicle-europe-norway-tesla-sale
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ExxonMobile predicted global warming with 'shocking skill and accuracy' starting in 1977
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-fi
nds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
That massive changes have occurred is clear from the historical record. For example, Egypt was once the breadbasket of the Roman Empire. It may be the same role as the American Midwest plays today. That is certainly no longer the case. It’s not a greenhouse effect issue. It may be an overgrazing issue, but it is an example of how humans are perfectly capable of making these unexpected and inadvertent changes.
Because the effects occupy more than a human generation, there is a tendency to say that they are not our problem. Of course, then they are nobody’s problem, not on my tour of duty, not on my term of office. It’s something for the next century. Let the next century worry about it. But the problem is that there are effects, and the greenhouse effect is one of them which have long time constants. If you don’t worry about it now, it’s too late later on. And so in this issue, as in so many other issues, we are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems, if they can be solved at all, is now. . . .
As you’ve heard, the best estimates, they certainly have some uncertainty attached to them, are that at the present rate the burning of fossil fuels, the present rate of increase of minor infrared absorbing gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, that there will be a several centigrade degree temperature increase on the Earth’s global average by the middle to the end of the next century. And that has a variety of consequences, including redistribution of local climates and, through the melting of glaciers, an increase in global sea level. There is concern on a somewhat longer time scale about the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet and a general rise of many meters in sea level. . . .
I’d like to close by just saying a few words on the kind of perspective that this problem, as related problems, pose to us. Here is a problem that transcends our particular generation. It is an intergenerational problem if we don’t do the right thing now, there are very serious problems that our children and grandchildren will have to face.
More at https://theanalysis.news/carl-sagan-testifying-before-congress-in-1985
-on-climate-change/
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OK. Do something about it.
And by something, I mean something pragmatic.
SPOILER ALERT: Knocking down nuclear plants, banning gas ovens and trying to force coal burning cars on everyone is not pragmatic.
What else you got?
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OK. Do something about it.
And by something, I mean something pragmatic.
SPOILER ALERT: Knocking down nuclear plants, banning gas ovens and trying to force coal burning cars on everyone is not pragmatic.
What else you got?
How wind, sun and water can power the world
“Combustion is the problem – when you’re continuing to burn something, that’s not solving the problem,” says Prof Mark Jacobson.
The Stanford University academic has a compelling pitch: the world can rapidly get 100% of its energy from renewable sources with, as the title of his new book (February 2, 2023) says, “No Miracles Needed”.
Wind, water and solar can provide plentiful and cheap power, he argues, ending the carbon emissions driving the climate crisis, slashing deadly air pollution and ensuring energy security. In stark contrast, carbon capture and storage, biofuels, new nuclear and other technologies are expensive wastes of time, he argues.
“Bill Gates said we have to put a lot of money into miracle technologies,” Jacobson says. “But we don’t – we have the technologies that we need. We have wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, electric cars. We have batteries, heat pumps, energy efficiency. We have 95% of the technologies right now that we need to solve the problem.” The missing 5% is for long-distance aircraft and ships, he says, for which hydrogen-powered fuel cells can be developed.
Jacobson’s claim is a big one. He is not just talking about a shift to 100% renewable electricity, but all energy – and fossil fuels still provide about 80% of that today. Jacobson has scores of academic papers to his name and his work has been influential in policies passed by cities, states and countries around the world targeting 100% green power.
Jacobson divides approaches to the energy transition into two camps: “One says we should just try everything – they’re the ‘all-of-the-above camp’ – and keep investing huge amounts of money in technologies that may or may not be available to work in 10 years. But 10 years is too late.” Carbon emissions must fall by 45% by 2030, scientists agree, to keep on track for no more than 1.5C of global heating.
His camp takes a different approach, Jacobson says: “Let’s focus on what we have and deploy as fast as possible. And we will improve those technologies just by deploying, bringing better solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and so on. Some people just don’t realise the speed that we need to solve these problems, especially air pollution – 7 million people die every year. We can’t wait.”
However, there are major barriers to a rapid rollout of a 100% renewable energy system, he says: “The No 1 barrier is that most people are not aware that it’s possible. My job is trying to educate the public about it. If people are actually comfortable that it’s possible to do, then they might actually do it.”
He adds: “The policy of all-of-the-above is also a big barrier to a transition. In the US, for example, in the recent [climate legislation], a lot of money was spent on carbon capture, small modular nuclear reactors, biofuels, blue hydrogen. These are all what I consider almost useless, or very low-use, technologies in terms of solving the problems. And yet, a lot of money is spent on them. Why? Because there are big lobby groups.”
More at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/23/no-miracles-needed
-prof-mark-jacobson-on-how-wind-sun-and-water-can-power-the-world
Download Mark Z Jacobson’s books for free from mirrors at https://libgen.unblockit.ink/search.php?req=Mark+Z+Jacobson
For now, “No Miracles Needed” is not a free book because it hasn't been published, but it will be available soon enough (February 2, 2023) as an ebook or on paper for your purchase. Try these places:
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Texas Republicans introduce tax hikes, burdensome regulations in an assault on clean energy
Texas lawmakers are launching attacks on clean energy.
Jacksonville’s Sen. Robert Nichols wants to punish consumers who buy electric vehicles by raising the registration fees. SB 505 would add $400 to the cost of new electric-only cars and small trucks.
State Sen. Drew Springer, R-Muenster, thinks Texas should impose a tax “on each electric generator in this state that generates electricity using an energy source other than natural gas.” The target of SB 488 is the clean energy industry. This bill takes the amount of taxes collected on natural gas extraction and divides that number by the total cubic feet of gas produced in the previous year. The total is then multiplied by the number of cubic feet needed to generate a kilowatt of electricity to establish a tax rate. The state comptroller then imposes the tax on every kilowatt of electricity not produced by burning natural gas.
SB 154 would limit where companies can build wind projects and grant county commissioners extraordinary powers to block them. The state allows natural gas drilling in residential neighborhoods, but wind facilities would need to be set back “3,000 feet measured from the property line of each property.” The fine print defines a wind facility not just as the turbines on top of tall towers but includes ground-level batteries, transformers and transmission lines.
State Rep. Shelby Slawson, R-Stephenville, is so worried about aircraft navigating around wind turbines that her HB 1443 would ban them within 65 nautical miles of any airport where military aircraft might land. Start drawing 65-mile circles around the state’s airports, and soon most of the state is off-limits.
Solar energy is also under threat. State Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Galveston Republican, introduced SB 433 to strike a state law provision requiring a country appraiser to value solar facilities based on a 10-year depreciation. Removing the requirement would make solar energy much more expensive by raising property taxes.
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Texas Republicans introduce tax hikes, burdensome regulations in an assault on clean energy
Texas lawmakers are launching attacks on clean energy.
Jacksonville’s Sen. Robert Nichols wants to punish consumers who buy electric vehicles by raising the registration fees. SB 505 would add $400 to the cost of new electric-only cars and small trucks.
Good.
It's keeping down electricity costs for all the sensible people.
Raise that yearly registration to $1,000 per year.
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Texas Republicans introduce tax hikes, burdensome regulations in an assault on clean energy
Texas lawmakers are launching attacks on clean energy.
Jacksonville’s Sen. Robert Nichols wants to punish consumers who buy electric vehicles by raising the registration fees. SB 505 would add $400 to the cost of new electric-only cars and small trucks.
Good.
It's keeping down electricity costs for all the sensible people.
Raise that yearly registration to $1,000 per year.
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You think that fixing your car was a personal triumph. All you really showed is that you are not knowledgeable and you misunderstand most of the technology your life depends upon. But I have never known a stupid person to be aware of just how much trouble their stupidity causes for everybody around them, especially at work, so your behavior is not unexpected.
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UK scientists discover method to reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emissions by 90%
Decarbonising the steel industry is an imperative
January 27, 2023 - 11:46 am
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emission by nearly 90%.
The iron and steel industry is a major cause of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 9% of global emissions. That’s because of the inherent carbon-intensive nature of steel production in blast furnaces, which currently represent the most-widely used practice.
In blast furnace steel manufacturing, coke (a type of coal) is used to produce metallic iron from ore obtained from mining — which releases large quantities of carbon dioxide in the process. According to Dr Harriet Kildahl, who co-devised the method with Professor Yulong Ding, their technology aims to convert this carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide that can be reused in the iron ore reaction.
This is realised using a thermochemical cycle which performs chemical reactions through changes in temperature. That way, the typically damaging CO2 is turned into a useful part of the reaction, forming “an almost perfect closed carbon loop.” This drastically reduces emission by the amount of coke needed and, subsequently, lowers steelmaking’s emissions by up to 88%.
As per the researchers, if this method was implemented in the remaining two blast furnaces in the UK, it could save £1.28 billion in 5 years, all while reducing the country’s overall emissions by 2.9%.
“Current proposals for decarbonising the steel sector rely on phasing out existing plants and introducing electric arc furnaces powered by renewable electricity. However, an electric arc furnace plant can cost over £1 billion to build, which makes this switch economically unfeasible in the time remaining to meet the Paris Climate Agreement,” Professor Ding said. “The system we are proposing can be retrofitted to existing plants, which reduces the risk of stranded assets, and both the reduction in CO2, and the cost savings, are seen immediately.”
University of Birmingham Enterprise has filed a patent application covering the system and its use in metal production. It’s currently looking for partners to take part in pilot studies and deliver this technology to existing infrastructure, or collaborate on further research to develop the process.
https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-scientists-discover-method-reduce-steel
makings-co2-emissions
You can read the full study, “Cost effective decarbonisation of blast furnace”, here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262300121X?vi
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How California’s ambitious new climate plan could help speed energy transformation around the world
Published: January 26, 2023 8.24am EST
California is embarking on an audacious new climate plan that aims to eliminate the state’s greenhouse gas footprint by 2045, and in the process, slash emissions far beyond its borders.
What happens in California has global reach. What California does matters far beyond state lines.
California is close to overtaking Germany as the world’s fourth-largest economy and has a history of adopting environmental requirements that are imitated across the United States and the world. California has the most ambitious zero-emission requirements in the world for cars, trucks and buses; the most ambitious low-carbon fuel requirements; one of the largest carbon cap-and-trade programs; and the most aggressive requirements for renewable electricity.
In the U.S., through peculiarities in national air pollution law, other states have replicated many of California’s regulations and programs so they can race ahead of national policies. States can either follow federal vehicle emissions standards or California’s stricter rules. There is no third option. An increasing number of states now follow California.
More at https://theconversation.com/how-californias-ambitious-new-climate-plan
-could-help-speed-energy-transformation-around-the-world-197094
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And nobody can afford it.
Natural Gas in California is now $3.45 per Therm.
Why natural gas prices — and bills — are soaring in Southern California
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-01-09/why-natural-gas-pric
es-and-bills-are-soaring-in-southern-california
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The price for what’s called “core procurement” that goes to residential and small commercial customers is set at the start of each month. The price soared to $3.45 per therm (a unit of natural gas) on Jan. 1 from $1.05 in December. In January 2022, it was 84 cents.
And let's not forget right after their announcement to ban any cars that aren't coal burning, they had to tell Californians to turn their A/C down and not charge their coal burning cars because the infrastructure was overloaded.
Get fucked, Second.
California is a model of failure under any metric one could conceive.
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States Reimagine Power Grids for Wind and Solar Future
STATELINE ARTICLE January 25, 2023
A 2019 analysis by global consulting group Wood Mackenzie found that reaching 100% renewable electricity would require adding 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines — doubling the existing total — at a cost of $700 billion. A complex web of independent system operators, state regulators and utility companies oversee the planning and construction of new grid infrastructure, with frequent disagreements about who should bear the cost.
Streamlining Projects
In Washington state, leaders are working to connect wind and solar projects in the state’s arid eastern region with population centers west of the Cascade Mountains. Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, is proposing a bill that would speed up permitting for high-capacity transmission projects, placing them under the oversight of the state’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council.
More at https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/202
3/01/25/states-reimagine-power-grids-for-wind-and-solar-future
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The Price of a Fully Renewable US Grid: $4.5 Trillion
Shifting to 100 percent renewables in the U.S. is an attainable goal, Wood Mackenzie analysts say. Three major hurdles must be overcome.
CHLOE HOLDEN JUNE 28, 2019
The cost of shifting the U.S. power grid to 100 percent renewable energy over the next 10 years is an estimated $4.5 trillion, according to a new Wood Mackenzie analysis.
This estimated price tag is associated with transitioning entirely to renewables: replacing nuclear and fossil fuels with renewable energy, while keeping hydro, biomass and geothermal, consistent with a 1 00 percent renewables vision. If nuclear were to remain in the energy mix, the total price tag would drop to $4 trillion.
According to the analysis, $4.5 trillion covers everything needed to reliably produce and deliver clean energy to consumers. That runs the gamut from constructing and operating new generation facilities, making capacity payments, investing in transmission and distribution infrastructure, delivering customer-facing grid edge technology and more.
The model used for the estimate is based on today's technology and does not factor in potential future innovations. However, WoodMac's model does take into account the cost inflation in materials and labor that would be likely to occur in an "accelerated build" scenario.
"Markets can reach 25 percent wind and solar market penetration with relative ease, assuming fundamental natural resource and grid infrastructure prerequisites. Beyond that point, operational and cost complexities progressively multiply, in large part due to the intermittent nature of renewables," the authors state.
No large and complex power system in the world operates with an average annual penetration of greater than 30 percent wind and solar, the report says.
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Go to Texas to see the anti-green future of clean energy
Lessons for liberals from climate-skeptic wind ranchers
Texas has three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California — just don’t call it green.
For more than 140 years John Davis’s family has owned the Pecan Spring Ranch on the prairie lands of West Texas. He has a photo of his great-great-grandmother, known as "the sheep queen of Texas", sitting in a horse-drawn carriage beneath a tree that still stands in front of the hay barn. It’s a tough business to maintain, even with a valuable herd of Wagyu beef cattle to raise. Yet when a renewable-energy developer offered Mr Davis a large payment to put wind turbines on his land, at first the staunch Republican — and former state congressman — turned it down.
His opposition was knee-jerk. “Clean energy has been branded a liberal technology. People literally say, ‘this is AOC coming into town,”’ explains his son, Samuel, referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the left-wing congresswoman whose name pops up with almost flattering frequency among conservative Texans. Eventually, though, economic sense prevailed. As the family points out, at an average return per acre, cattle generate $8, deer hunters $15 — and wind hundreds of dollars. It assures the ranch’s future.
Now hosting seven turbines, the family embraces renewables as religious converts would. Samuel is a representative for the Texas Land and Liberty Coalition, which promotes wind and solar energy among ranchers. His parents have bought a filling station, ripped out the petrol pumps, and are converting it into an electric-vehicle charging station (with a farmers’ market on the side). Your columnist sat down with the clan last month over a breakfast of quiche and tomato-jalapeño jam, before bouncing across their ranch in an electric buggy. He learned lessons about clean energy that challenged his own philosophical assumptions.
1) The first is that you do not have to believe in climate change to support renewables. Quite the opposite. For a portion of conservative America, things like climate change and carbon taxes are still viewed as big-government malarkey. Even greenery is despised as a term co-opted by the left. “When someone says we are embracing green energy, it’s like shoving an ice pick through our ears,” says Matt Welch, head of Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, another pro-renewables group. “We just say clean energy.”
This is not just Texan recalcitrance. Wind power is abundantly harvested in states run by Republican governments and over land owned by climate-skeptic ranchers. The message they prefer is a more free-market one: that wind and solar are increasingly competitive sources of energy, help reduce electricity costs, foster entrepreneurship, and are no less American than oil and gas.
It is a surprisingly effective mantra. You might think that California, which talks a good game about climate change and green energy, is on the forefront of renewables development. But Texas is far ahead. According to a study commissioned by Mr Welch’s organization, in the second quarter of 2022 his home state had three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California. The Energy Information Administration, a federal agency, predicts that this year the share of renewables in Texan power generation will for the first time exceed that of natural gas.
2) That helps explain the next lesson. For all the mockery of AOC, it is from their own Republican ranks that wind-energy ranchers face the most antagonism — especially from fossil-fuel producers who fear being undercut by renewables. Organizations like the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), which lobbies on behalf of oil and gas, and the Texas Landowners Coalition, backed by right-wing beneficiaries of the fracking boom, are fighting tooth and nail to curb wind development. The TPPF’s battle extends to proposed offshore wind farms as far away as New England.
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China invests $546 billion in clean energy, far surpassing the U.S.
E&E News reports:
China once again topped the world in clean energy investments last year, a trend that could challenge U.S. efforts to develop more homegrown manufacturing.
Nearly half of the world’s low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
That is nearly four times the amount of U.S. investments, which totaled $141 billion. The European Union was second to China with $180 billion in clean energy investments.
China also dominated in low-carbon manufacturing, accounting for more than 90 percent of the $79 billion invested in that sector last year, according to the report.
The findings come as the U.S. and Europe work to expand domestic manufacturing capacity. The United States has begun in recent months to roll out the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is packed with $369 billion of incentives aimed at building up the U.S. clean energy industry.
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China invests $546 billion in clean energy, far surpassing the U.S.
E&E News reports:
China once again topped the world in clean energy investments last year, a trend that could challenge U.S. efforts to develop more homegrown manufacturing.
Nearly half of the world’s low-carbon spending took place in China, according to a recent analysis from market research firm BloombergNEF. The country spent $546 billion in 2022 on investments that included solar and wind energy, electric vehicles and batteries.
That is nearly four times the amount of U.S. investments, which totaled $141 billion. The European Union was second to China with $180 billion in clean energy investments.
China also dominated in low-carbon manufacturing, accounting for more than 90 percent of the $79 billion invested in that sector last year, according to the report.
The findings come as the U.S. and Europe work to expand domestic manufacturing capacity. The United States has begun in recent months to roll out the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is packed with $369 billion of incentives aimed at building up the U.S. clean energy industry.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-invests-546-billion-i
n-clean-energy-far-surpassing-the-u-s/
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Talk to Joe*. He and the Democrats just sent $900 Billion to the very-non-clean War Machine.
Get fucked, Second.
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Quote:Funny how the Pentagon sees its budget steadily getting smaller and smaller.
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Talk to Joe*. He and the Democrats just sent $900 Billion to the very-non-clean War Machine.
Get fucked, Second.
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DOD funding is near a record low as a percentage of our economy
Defense Spending as a % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
This is a graphic showing defense spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002099941/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Funny how the Pentagon sees its budget steadily getting smaller and smaller.
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Talk to Joe*. He and the Democrats just sent $900 Billion to the very-non-clean War Machine.
Get fucked, Second.
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DOD funding is near a record low as a percentage of our economy
Defense Spending as a % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
This is a graphic showing defense spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002099941/
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LOL
Hey sigs. Now he's using Bidenflation to make you feel bad about our War Machine budget.
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Quote:You didn't even click on the link so you could see the graph of defense spending as a percent of GDP. (It is 2.7%, which is as low as it has ever been. Most recent peaks were 4.5% in 2010 and 5.7% in 1985 and 8.6% in 1968 and 11.3% in 1953) The percentage keeps decreasing because the economy keeps growing, but that is too complicated for you.
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LOL
Hey sigs. Now he's using Bidenflation to make you feel bad about our War Machine budget.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You didn't even click on the link so you could see the graph of defense spending as a percent of GDP. (It is 2.7%, which is as low as it has ever been. Most recent peaks were 4.5% in 2010 and 5.7% in 1985 and 8.6% in 1968 and 11.3% in 1953) The percentage keeps decreasing because the economy keeps growing, but that is too complicated for you.
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LOL
Hey sigs. Now he's using Bidenflation to make you feel bad about our War Machine budget.
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Trust me, moron... Anything you can wrap your head around is like 5th grad shit to me.
I'm just commenting on how you're so fucking confused about everything because your brain is broken and you stand for nothing since every thought you shit out online is in contradiction to every other thought you shit out online.
You are a waste of carbon. I hope nature does better next time when your atoms are cast into the wind.
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Hundreds of used electric vehicle battery packs are enjoying a second life at a California facility connected to the state's power grid, according to a company pioneering technology it says will dramatically lower the cost of storing carbon-free energy. Reuters reports:
B2U Storage Solutions, a Los Angeles-based startup, said it has 25 megawatt-hours of storage capacity made up of 1,300 former EV batteries tied to a solar energy facility in Lancaster, California. The project is believed to be the first of its kind selling power into a wholesale market and earned $1 million last year, according to Chief Executive Freeman Hall. B2U's technology allows the EV battery packs to be bundled together without having to be taken apart first. Founded in 2019, the company is backed by Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp.
By extending the batteries' lives, project developers can save both resources and costs. Hall estimates that a system like B2U's could lower grid-scale battery capital costs by about 40%. "Second life and re-use helps the overall lifecycle be more energy efficient, given all the efforts that go into making that battery," Hall said in an interview. "So you're getting maximum value out of it." Batteries are worked hard during their years powering vehicles, and over time their range deteriorates. But they still hold value as stationary storage, which has gentler demands, Hall said. The batteries in the B2U system are up to 8-years old and once powered vehicles built by Honda and Nissan.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/02/07/2236259/ev-batteries-gett
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EverWind Fuels has become the first green hydrogen producer in North America to secure the necessary permits for a commercial-scale facility on Tuesday.
Reuters reports:
Provincial authorities in Canada granted environmental approval for EverWind to begin converting a former oil storage facility and marine terminal at Point Tupper in Nova Scotia into a green hydrogen and ammonia production hub. [...] EverWind expects the project's first phase, producing and exporting 200,000 tonnes per annum, to be online in 2025, before ramping up to 1 million tonnes per annum the following year. The company has agreements with German energy firms E.ON and Uniper to acquire the production. "To get the permit is a big deal," said Vichie, who co-founded Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and also worked at Blackstone. The green hydrogen produced by EverWind's facility will be combined with nitrogen and converted into ammonia before being shipped, in liquid form, in tankers to Germany, where it can be retained as ammonia or turned back into green hydrogen.
Production during the facility's first phase will be powered using wind and solar assets to be built nearby, Vichie said. The company in December leased 137,000 acres (55,440 hectares) which will eventually site turbines generating 2 gigawatts of wind energy, that will power production in its second, larger phase. "This provides an amazing green growth path for Atlantic Canada, where they have some of the world's best wind resources," Vichie said. The overall cost of the project is expected to be around $6 billion. Three banks are helping arrange debt funding, while Vichie's family office is providing equity capital, he said.
In other hydrogen-related news, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Universal Hydrogen approval to fly its 40+ passenger hydrogen electric plane.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/02/08/0730203/everwind-gets-app
roval-for-north-americas-first-green-hydrogen-facility
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Hindenburg report delays Adani's green hydrogen project with French firm
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/hindenburg-report-delays-adan
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Also, Hydrogen: 
Good luck on your maiden voyage.
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Jet Fuel Burns, 6ix:
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MIT team makes a case for direct carbon capture from seawater, not air
February 17, 2023
The team projects an optimized cost around US$56 per ton of CO2 captured from seawater.
Cost per ton of CO2 ranges between US$300-$1,000 if removed from air.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in seawater is more than 100 times greater than in air. Suck the carbon out of the seawater, and it'll suck more out of the air to re-balance the concentrations. The ocean currently soaks up some 30-40% of all humanity's annual carbon emissions, and maintains a constant free exchange with the air.
The team has a practical demonstration project planned for sometime in the next two years, and says there are plenty of things that still need work. For one, the researchers would love to be able to separate the gas out without a vacuum system. And mineral precipitates are fouling the electrodes on the alkalinization side, so there's plenty of progress yet to be made.
More at https://newatlas.com/environment/mit-carbon-capture-seawater/
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Solar capacity in Europe doubled since 2018, and is on track to triple in the next four years.
Two things happened in 2022 that made renewables out compete both coal and gas: Renewable technology is getting reliably cheaper while its competitors are getting more expensive.
Oil, gas, and coal are commodities, and as physical goods, their prices are dictated by volatility in markets. Oil price shocks occur once every few years. But solar and wind prices depend on technology getting better, which follows a much more predictable curve as it gets cheaper and more advanced.
While the technology still has room for improvement, what’s needed is not so much a better wind turbine or solar panel as much as broader policy changes that encourage more widespread adoption.
The Russia-Ukraine war turned out to be the crisis to propel that adoption.
European households and businesses turned to rooftop solar last year as they worried about skyrocketing electricity costs. They added three times as many gigawatts in 2022 as in the year before.
Better technology can also help us slash energy usage. Heat pumps require less energy than traditional furnaces and boilers. Heat pumps were already on the rise in Europe before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and sales soared in 2022, doubling in countries like Poland, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands.
This year is likely to see the beginning of the end of natural gas in Europe because it’s now the most expensive fuel in Europe, due to the sanctions on Russia.
More at https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/2/21/23594544/europe-electricity-natu
ral-gas-renewable-energy-russia
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The world is on track to overshoot 1.5 degrees of warming, so it's time to study reflecting sun away from the earth, says UN
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/27/speculative-tech-to-reflect-sun-away-f
rom-earth-needs-focus-un.html
Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping
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How a high school in Estonia has almost achieved carbon neutrality
By Aurora Velez • Updated: 27/02/2023
All energy sources at the school are green. Some are more obvious, like the 144 solar panels, which produce 37.4 kWh.
The building, which dates back to Soviet times, was completely rebuilt in 2016. The total budget for this project was over €5.7 million. More than 260 students and teachers benefit from the project, says Polva Gümnaasium. The school is also open to the local community for concerts, meetings and other events.
This project has been used as a model both within Estonia and abroad and was recently recognised as one of the best European projects at the 2022 REGIOSTARS Awards.
More at https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/27/how-a-high-school-in-est
onia-has-almost-achieved-carbon-neutrality
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China tops nuclear fusion patent ranking, beating U.S.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-nuclear-fusion-pat
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The Chinese have raced ahead of the pack in filing patents in nuclear fusion technology
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That's what happens when you don't prioritize diversity hiring above everything else.
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Quote:6ix, how many operating fusion power plants are in the world? Zero. When will the first one be built? There is none scheduled. To get to the future shown in Firefly or Star Trek will require either fusion power plants that fit inside a starship or di-lithium crystals as in Star Trek. I don't think travel to the stars will be part of history until after humans get more than half of their electrical power from the fusion power plant of the Sun, which means solar cells and wind turbines, both things that Trumptards despise as much as "prioritize diversity hiring".
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That's what happens when you don't prioritize diversity hiring above everything else.
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State senators are aggressively pursuing a plan to build more natural gas power plants and curb the growth of wind and solar energy in Texas. Senators say the federal government offers unfair incentives to wind and solar plants, making it tough for non-renewable energy providers to compete.
The legislation would add to laws the Legislature passed after the deadly winter freeze in 2021, which Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans have unduly blamed on wind and solar generation. Those failures were mostly attributable to a massive drop in natural gas production, federal investigators determined.
Another measure would require at least half of all new generation built in Texas to be coal or natural gas-powered starting in 2024.
Doug Lewin, a renewable energy consultant, warned that the proposals will be “extremely expensive.” "Any time that you hear a policymaker talking about raising costs on renewables, that's raising costs on customers,” Lewin said. “Renewables benefit customers, and it's nothing but a tax on electricity. That’s what it is — a massive tax on electricity that all Texans are going to pay” to benefit natural gas producers.
University of Houston Energy Fellow Ed Hirs said Texas would be facing problems even if renewables hadn’t come onto the system with so much gusto. But because wind and solar energy have become so cheap to produce and don’t have a fuel cost like natural gas, it has been hard for legacy plants to compete in the Texas system.
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In 2022, Europe saw wind and solar power overtake nuclear power and natural gas for the first time.
Thanks to a record rollout of renewable energy sources combined with conservation measures, the continent’s emissions footprint actually positioned the EU to remain within reach of its goal to slash emissions by at least 55 percent in seven years’ time.
The secret to Europe’s success was its expansive deployment of solar photovoltaics and wind farms, which had a combined generation that jumped by 15 percent in 2022 over the previous year.
In Germany, no one was certain whether people would cooperate of their own volition. But research has shown that in combination with a relatively mild winter, conservation efforts by individuals, businesses, and even factories reduced overall gas consumption by 15 percent. Individual motivations varied: many saw no alternative in the face of soaring energy bills and inflated consumer prices; others framed their sacrifice in terms of solidarity with the people of Ukraine or as a boon to climate protection. Whatever the reason, Europeans embarked on the energy-saving actions that efficiency experts have long advocated — and hope to make permanent.
“There was a positive attitude about conserving energy,” says Neuhoff. “People seemed to understand that they have to save gas to prevent the crisis from escalating — and they did.” And, emphasizes Neuhoff, “Industry cut back even more than ordinary people.” Citing high energy prices and the scaling back of some production, the industrial sector slashed gas use by around 25 percent.
More at https://e360.yale.edu/features/europe-energy-crisis-winter-gas-coal-wi
nd-solar-emissions
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Are Texas wind and solar really more subsidized than oil and gas? (Editorial)
April 6, 2023
Roughly 15 years after derricks at the Spindletop oil field first rained black gold in southeast Texas at the turn of the 20th century, a different spigot began flowing: a fire hose of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of oil companies.
Since 1916, when the federal government first allowed firms that extracted natural resources to immediately deduct related costs — including construction, wages, drilling, fuel and other expenses — oil and gas companies have benefited from hundreds of billions of dollars in federal subsidies entrenched in our tax code. States such as Texas duplicate those efforts with generous oil and gas subsidies of their own, reasoning that doing so enhances job creation and economic development. Only in the 21st century did federal support for renewable energy sources such as wind and solar begin to keep pace with oil, gas, and coal. Congress was motivated in part by a global awakening that carbon emissions from fossil fuels directly contribute to climate change.
Somewhere along the way, the notion of special treatment emerged. Critics began to claim that renewables — those darlings of the Left — were being showered with unfair government advantages that skewed the energy playing field and made it harder for oil and gas to compete. That thinking recently led Gov. Greg Abbott to suggest that Texas should exclude renewable energy projects from the newest version of the popular "Chapter 313" tax break program.
We actually think the government has a right, even a duty, to encourage industries that can save our warming earth from Armageddon. We also think it's important to lay out the facts and set the record straight on the idea that wind and solar have an unfair advantage.
It's just not that simple. Calculating federal subsidies is something of an inexact science, particularly when factoring indirect subsidies, such as the discounted cost of leasing federal lands for drilling, or foregone consumption taxes, to say nothing of the environmental and public health costs from carbon pollution that companies usually don't pay.
Abbott is correct that renewables get substantial federal help. One study from the conservative-leaning think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation found that from 2010-2019, wind and solar received $71 billion in federal subsidies compared with $38 billion for oil and gas. Congress' recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which has even more generous tax credits, will further tilt the balance of federal subsidies toward renewables. As Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told us recently, the new law will make investing in clean energy "irresistible," even for Big Oil companies.
Of course, Texas helps make up for that subsidy imbalance: A University of Texas Energy Institute study from 2018 — the most recent analysis of its kind — found that the state doled out roughly $1.8 billion in direct subsidies for oil and gas compared with $1 billion for wind and only $19 million for solar between 2010-2019. Even if you consider the $976 million subsidy provided to build transmission lines to deliver wind power from West Texas to big cities, just one subsidy cutting taxes on gas wells that are hard to develop costs Texas taxpayers $1 billion.
Another problem with Abbott's desire to kick renewables out of the revamped 313 program? It would basically require Texas to cut off its nose to spite of its face. Robust federal support over the next decade creates even more opportunity for Texas' energy industry to grow, create more jobs, and produce more clean energy. Why would Texas' energy producers not want a slice of that pie?
Federal subsidies aren't just "corporate welfare," as critics describe them. They're seed money for investment in a state that wants to maintain its dominance in wind and solar. This is a state that's evolved past binary categories of dirty and clean energy. Today, traditional fos
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Solar and Wind power will never make a dent in the energy we need. They will only be supplemental to Nuclear power.
You'd better start building those Nuclear power plants, or your Green Dream is DOA.
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Quote:Already more than halfway there:
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Solar and Wind power will never make a dent in the energy we need. They will only be supplemental to Nuclear power.
You'd better start building those Nuclear power plants, or your Green Dream is DOA.
"According to its roadmap for bringing energy-related CO2 emissions to net zero by 2050, global nuclear capacity would need to almost double from current levels to reach 812 gigawatts (GW) in 2050."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/role-nuclear-power-
energy-mix-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
Parenthetically, that is why OPEC+ raised its prices recently since it has to make all the money it will ever make in the next 27 years because by 2050 OPEC+ will be out-of-business. If OPEC+ does connive to stay operating after 2050, we will be dead meat roasting in the Summer Sun. What a vile smell from the smoke of humans being barbecued. Let's avoid that future rather than make the Saudi Arabian King living in his air-conditioned palace richer and richer forever and ever as he sells more and more crude for many centuries to come.
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Simple Math and the Climate Crisis
About a decade ago, I wrote an essay for this magazine that went quite viral, simply because it laid out the math of climate change as we understood it at the time. Scientists calculated that in order to have any real chance of meeting the climate goals the world had agreed on, our atmospheric bucket had space for about 585 gigatons more carbon dioxide. And new data showed that the fossil-fuel industry had in its reserves — the stuff it had told shareholders and banks it would dig up and burn — about 2,795 gigatons worth of CO2. Which is to say: five times too much.
From that math, you could derive a powerful result: The fossil-fuel industry was a rogue enterprise. If the various companies (and countries that operated like companies — think Saudi Arabia) carried out their stated business plan, there was no drama about the outcome: Earth as we had known it would no longer exist, and in its place would be something much hotter and more dangerous.
That remains true — truer, even. Mark Campanale, whose London-based NGO Carbon Tracker provided those numbers a decade ago, has kept an ongoing count, and here’s where we stand. The fossil-fuel industry has continued to explore and prospect, and now controls reserves of coal, gas, and oil that, if burned, would produce 3,700 gigatons of carbon dioxide. That’s 10 times the amount that scientists say would take us past the temperature targets set in the Paris Climate Agreement.
Another way of saying this: If we are to meet the climate targets set by scientists, we have to leave 90 percent of the fossil fuels we have discovered underground. And at current prices that means stranding about $100 trillion worth of assets in the soil. If you want to understand why the battle over climate progress is so fierce — why the fossil-fuel industry fights so hard, with all the political influence it can buy — remember that $100 trillion. That’s a lot of incentive.
$34 per Megawatt Hour
That’s the new figure from the investment bank Lazard for the average cost of utility-scale solar power. That is, if you have a bunch of solar panels in a field, that’s how much it costs to produce electricity from them. To understand why it’s a figure that could change the world, you need to know a couple of other things.
One, it’s far, far lower than it was a decade ago: The price of renewable energy has dropped as much as 90 percent since then.
And two, it’s lower than any other way of producing energy. The only thing that comes close is a wind turbine catching the breeze, which checks in at $39 per kilowatt hour. Running a gas-fired power plant, still the most common solution in America, runs you $59; a coal-fired power plant, in these calculations, produces power at $108 a megawatt hour; nuclear is more expensive yet.
We’re used to thinking of renewable clean energy as “alternative energy,” the Whole Foods of energy compared with the Piggly Wiggly of gas or coal: luxe, not mainstream. But that has shifted dramatically. And that’s an advantage that should continue to grow. A remarkable study from Oxford scientists published in 2021 makes clear that solar and wind power (and the batteries to store that power when the sun sets or the wind drops) are firmly set on what economists call “learning curves.” That is, the more you build them out, the better you get at doing it, and so the price drops. At the moment, when solar installations double, the price drops by a third.
The power of that learning curve is so great that it tends to overwhelm all the obstacles that get in the way. Not all power sources are on learning curves, however. Fossil fuel was pretty cheap from the start, but it hasn’t gotten significantly cheaper. That’s because it’s less a technology than a commodity — and you have to work harder to find that commodity now that the easy stuff has been burned. The coal is farther back in the mine; the oil is down at the bottom of the ocean now, or under a polar ice cap. There’s hope — but no certainty yet — that nuclear power might ge
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Millions face threat of flooding from glacial lakes
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EPA lays out rules to accelerate sales of electric cars and trucks
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations to date, two plans designed to ensure two-thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States are all-electric by 2032.
The new rules would require nothing short of a revolution in the U.S. auto industry, a moment in some ways as significant as the June morning in 1896 when Henry Ford took his “horseless carriage” for a test run and changed American life and industry.
If the two rules from the Environmental Protection Agency are enacted as proposed, they would put the world’s largest economy on track to slash its planet-warming emissions at the pace that scientists say is required of all nations in order to avert the most devastating impacts of climate change.
The government’s challenge to automakers is monumental. Last year, all-electric vehicles accounted for just 5.8 percent of new cars sold in the United States. All-electric trucks were even more rare, making up fewer than 2 percent of new heavy trucks sold.
Nearly all major automakers have already invested billions in producing electric vehicles at the same time as they continue to manufacture the conventional vehicles powered by gasoline, which deliver their profits. The proposed regulations would require them to invest more heavily and reorient their processes in ways that would essentially spell the end of the internal combustion engine.
The E.P.A. is “proposing the strongest-ever federal pollution technology standards for both cars and trucks,” said Michael S. Regan, the agency’s administrator, in remarks outside E.P.A. headquarters on Wednesday. “Together, today’s actions will accelerate our ongoing transition to a clean vehicle future, tackle the climate crisis head on and improve air quality in poor communities all across the country.”
“This is historic news,” he said.
The E.P.A. cannot mandate that carmakers sell a certain number of electric vehicles. But under the Clean Air Act, the agency can limit the pollution generated by the total number of cars each manufacturer sells. And the agency has set that limit so tightly that the only way manufacturers can comply is to sell a certain percentage of zero-emissions vehicles. Each model year that the rule is in effect, car companies will report to the federal government the average greenhouse emissions of all new cars sold. Companies that fall short of the standard could be penalized in different ways, including fines of billions of dollars.
The proposed regulations will surely face legal challenges from those who see them as government overreach. A group of about a dozen Republican attorneys general has filed lawsuits against the Biden administration’s climate polices, and one of its leaders, Attorney General Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia, suggested the group would fight the newest proposals.
“This administration is hell bent on destroying America’s energy security and independence by making us dependent on resources and components that can come only from abroad,” Mr. Morrisey said. “Over the coming weeks, we’ll be taking a closer look at the proposed rule, and we’ll be ready to once again lead the charge against wrongheaded energy proposals like these.”
The proposed tailpipe pollution limits for cars, first reported by The New York Times on Saturday, are designed to ensure that 67 percent of sales of new light-duty passenger vehicles, from sedans to pickup trucks, will be all-electric by 2032. Additionally, 46 percent of sales of new medium-duty trucks, such as delivery vans, will be all-electric or use some other form of zero-emissions technology by the same year, according to the plan.
The E.P.A. also proposed a companion rule governing heavy-duty vehicles, designed so that half of new buses and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold, including eighteen-wheeler big rigs, would be all-electric by 2032.
Combined, the two rules would eliminate
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Another blizzard of bullshit.
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Quote:Signym, what is wrong with you? Between your accusations that Ukrainians are Nazis and that NATO, EU, UK and USA are evil, there is something seriously out of balance about you. Could it be that the Russian economy prospers by selling fossil fuels? Climate change is unstoppable so long as fossil fuels keep getting burned. Fortunately, engineers have engines that do NOT burn fossil fuels. For example, here is Volvo and its giant earth-movers. Russians won't like this because it cuts into their fuel sales:
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Another blizzard of bullshit.
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Electric has infiltrated heavy equipment.
Volvo’s latest all electric excavator: EC230. It is a 23 metric tonne (25 ton) machine. It is just like their diesel version but with batteries and an electric motor. 264KW of battery power. They have it structured for 4 to 5 hr run time then a 150KW, 1 hr charge and your good for the rest of the day. The battery life is 2000 to 5500 charging cycles.
https://www.volvoce.com/global/en/this-is-volvo-ce/what-we-believe-in/
innovation/ec230-electric-customer-pilot/
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has started testing the world's first fuel cell articulated hauler prototype, the Volvo HX04.
The fuelling process for hydrogen vehicles is fast – the Volvo HX04 is charged with 12kg hydrogen in circa 7.5 minutes, enabling it to operate for approximately four hours. Fuel cells work by combining hydrogen with oxygen, and the resulting chemical reaction produces electricity which powers the machine. In the process, fuel cells also produce heat that can be used for the cab's heating. Fuel cells only emit one thing – water vapour.
In principle, a fuel cell works much like a battery except that it generates its own electricity from the hydrogen onboard as needed rather than being charged from an external source. Vehicles with fuel cell electric powertrains have an uptime, range, and fuelling time similar to that of combustion engine-powered vehicles.
https://www.aggbusiness.com/feature/hydrogen-power-haulers
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In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived
About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230510155707/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/05/08/business/energy-environment/norway-electric-vehicles.html
The Times piece tackles other related subjects as well: the reordering of auto dealerships to accommodate EV sales, the increasing demands on Norway’s power grid (no, it has not collapsed), battery recycling, and the expectation that the country will end the sales of internal combustion engine cars by 2025. The piece is a useful preview of what may soon be encountered in the US.
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Sen. Manchin attacked EPA’s new rules. They could cost him millions.
The West Virginia senator accused the Biden administration of killing coal plants. One, in particular, has helped enrich him.
When Sen. Joe Manchin upbraided EPA on Wednesday for requiring power plants to reduce their carbon emissions, he didn’t mention that the agency’s rules could threaten his personal income.
The West Virginia Democrat vowed to oppose President Joe Biden’s EPA nominees because the agency’s rules being proposed Thursday could push coal- and gas-fired power plants “out of existence,” he said.
The risk to one plant, in particular, could jeopardize a lucrative source of money for Manchin. His family business Enersystems Inc. delivers waste coal to the Grant Town power plant, a financially struggling coal facility near Manchin’s hometown that he has spent much of his political career protecting.
The Grant Town plant has repeatedly threatened to shut down. Now, with the release of EPA rules that are expected to push many power plants into installing expensive technology to capture their carbon emissions before the pollution escapes into the sky, the plant faces an increasingly troubled future. Many coal plants might shut down rather than comply with the stringent new climate rules.
“This is going to make it harder for them to stay around. You won’t find written anywhere in the rule that this is supposed to be putting coal plants out of business, but just do the math,” said Brian Murray, director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University.
Last year, Manchin earned $537,000 from Enersystems, according to financial disclosure records he filed with the Senate. He has been paid more than $5 million by the company since being elected to the Senate in 2010. The Grant Town plant is the main facility to receive coal from Manchin’s family business. Enersystems is now run by Manchin’s son, Joe Manchin IV.
Spokespeople for Manchin and Grant Town did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/11/manchin-epa-new-rules-biden-0
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Thorium a Future of Nuclear Energy?
https://www.iaea.org/publications/15215/near-term-and-promising-long-t
erm-options-for-the-deployment-of-thorium-based-nuclear-energy
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Last year, the world built more new solar capacity than every other power source combined.
Solar is now growing much faster than any other energy technology in history. How fast? Fast enough to completely displace fossil fuels from the entire global economy before 2050.
The rise and rise of cheap solar is our best hope for rapidly mitigating climate change.
Total solar capacity tipped over 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) for the first time last year. The sector is growing at around 20% a year. If this continues, we’ll hit 6 terawatts around 2031. In capacity terms, that would be larger than the combined total of coal, gas, nuclear and hydro. 
To run our homes, industries and vehicles with electricity, we’ll need to double electricity production. Why not more? Because electricity is usually much more efficient at producing an energy outcome. For example, 85% of the petrol you put into your car is wasted as heat.
In countries with a significant chemical industry, electricity production might need to triple.
If these trends continue, by mid-century we will be in a very different – and better – energy world.
Long term, there are practically no constraints on vast deployment of solar.
The sun will shine for billions more years. Raw materials for solar panels are abundant – silicon from sand and common metals like steel. There are no toxic metals or no critical materials like cobalt in them, and they are highly recyclable. Energy storage is now a solved problem.
More at https://theconversation.com/despairing-about-climate-change-these-4-ch
arts-on-the-unstoppable-growth-of-solar-may-change-your-mind-204901
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Drastic climate action is the best course for economic growth, new study finds
For decades, many economists’ analyses seemed to justify inaction on weaning the economy from fossil fuels, saying the astronomical cost of such rapid transformation would strangle economic growth. These experts were heeded over scientists who warned that acting too slowly would court climate catastrophe.
But in recent years, more economists have begun to agree that the short-term costs of aggressive action are not as high as once thought, while the long-term costs of inaction are much steeper.
The learning-by-doing principle accounts for the fact that as many new technologies are increasingly deployed, their costs fall. As companies and workers become more efficient and productive, curbing climate change becomes less costly. This is evident in the rapidly falling costs of solar panels, wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. A study published last year found that learning by doing will help determine how quickly humanity succeeds in slowing global warming.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/drastic-climate-action-is-t
he-best-course-for-economic-growth-new-study-finds/
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Well, DUH!
Making artificial meat make as much sense as making artificial photosynthesizers.
Quote:MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lab-grown-meats-carbon-footprint-l
Carbon Footprint Of Lab-Grown Beef "Orders Of Magnitude" Worse Than Traditionally Raised: Study
A new study from the University of California, Davis, has found that lab-grown, or "cultivated" meat's environmental impact is likely to be "orders of magnitude" higher than retail beef based on current and near-term production methods.
The preprint study, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.21.537778v1.full which has yet to undergo peer review, concludes that the energy needed and greenhouse gasses emitted during all stages of production of lab-grown meat is far greater than traditionally raised beef.
Researchers conducted a life-cycle assessment of the energy needed and greenhouse gases emitted in all stages of production and compared that with beef. One of the current challenges with lab-grown meat is the use of highly refined or purified growth media, the ingredients needed to help animal cells multiply. Currently, this method is similar to the biotechnology used to make pharmaceuticals. This sets up a critical question for cultured meat production: Is it a pharmaceutical product or a food product? -UC Davis
"If companies are having to purify growth media to pharmaceutical levels, it uses more resources, which then increases global warming potential," according to lead author and doctoral graduate Derrick Risner, of the US Davis Department of Food Science and Technology. "If this product continues to be produced using the “pharma” approach, it’s going to be worse for the environment and more expensive than conventional beef production."
The scientists considered the 'global warming potential' to be the carbon dioxide equivalents emitted for each kilogram of meat produced - and found that the global warming potential of lab-based meat using these purified media is up to 25 times greater than the average for retail beef.
One of the goals of the industry is to eventually create lab-grown meat using primarily food-grade ingredients or cultures without the use of expensive and energy-intensive pharmaceutical grade ingredients and processes.
Under that scenario, researchers found cultured meat is much more environmentally competitive, but with a wide range. Cultured meat’s global warming potential could be between 80% lower to 26% above that of conventional beef production, they calculate. While these results are more promising, the leap from “pharma to food” still represents a significant technical challenge for system scale-up.
“Our findings suggest that cultured meat is not inherently better for the environment than conventional beef. It’s not a panacea,” said corresponding author Edward Spang, an associate professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology. “It’s possible we could reduce its environmental impact in the future, but it will require significant technical advancement to simultaneously increase the performance and decrease the cost of the cell culture media.”
Even the most efficient beef production systems reviewed in the study outperform cultured meat across all scenarios (both food and pharma), suggesting that investments to advance more climate-friendly beef production may yield greater reductions in emissions more quickly than investments in cultured meat.
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Wildfire smoke reminded people about climate change. But soon will they forget.
Recent polls have shown that Americans are connecting these dots. The Pew Research Center reported last year that among people who experienced events like heat waves, drought, and wildfires, more than 80 percent said climate change played a role. However, there was a big gap between Republicans and Democrats, with Democrats more likely to report a larger role for climate change.:format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24712597/FT_22.08.10_ExtremeWeather_02__1_.jpg)
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That graph doesn't say what vox is telling you it says.
All that's telling you is where Democrats tend to live vs. where Republicans tend to live.
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Quote:What it tells you is that 99% of the human race goes through life unconscious of what is going on because their memories are very short. The long-dead inhabitants of Easter Island, for one example, could not remember from one decade to the next how their island was changing as they cut down and burned every tree. Eventually, having wiped out the trees, the leftover humans successfully exterminated themselves, at least on that island. Now humans setting all the fuel they can find on fire and, if they keep going in the same direction, humans will turn the whole Earth into one enormous Easter Island.
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LOL
That graph doesn't say what vox is telling you it says.
All that's telling you is where Democrats tend to live vs. where Republicans tend to live.
Obviously, there is ALWAYS someone to gainsay the story of Easter Island, adding so much irrelevant nuisance that they miss the meaning, just like the original Easter Island inhabitants convinced themselves that they were doing fine, never better, couldn't improve anything, etc., exactly the same as Trumptards, but so slowly dying that they don't realize what they are doing to themselves.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-easter-islands-h
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Inside the unexpectedly wild landmark Montana youth climate trial by Karin Kirk, June 15, 2023
Young people are attempting to hold their state accountable for fossil fuel expansion.
The case, Held v. Montana, pits a group of 16 young plaintiffs against the state of Montana. The youth argue that the state’s unabated pursuit of fossil fuel extraction is violating their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment.
Their argument draws on an unusual feature of Montana’s constitution. Written in 1972, it reads: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.”
In fact, the right to a clean and healthful environment is spelled out twice in the constitution, and it’s listed first among Montanans’ inalienable rights.
Montana’s constitution is part of why this is the first of several youth climate lawsuits to make it to trial in the U.S.
Montana attempted several times to have the case dismissed.
The trial is being closely watched by climate advocates across the U.S. because it has the potential to establish a precedent that future cases could build upon. If Judge Kathy Seely finds that Montana’s fossil fuel activities violate the state constitution, then the state may have to reconsider its all-in approach toward fossil fuels — though it’s uncertain how that would play out.
More at https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/inside-the-unexpectedly-wil
d-landmark-montana-youth-climate-trial/
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Their argument draws on an unusual feature of Montana’s constitution. Written in 1972, it reads: “The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.”
They were talking about not littering, doucebag.
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The trial is being closely watched by climate advocates across the U.S. because
... they are lunatics and idiots.
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If Judge Kathy Seely finds that Montana’s fossil fuel activities violate the state constitution, then the state may have to reconsider its all-in approach toward fossil fuels — though it’s uncertain how that would play out.
No it's not. You'll have to burn coal to power your cars because electricity isn't magic, and the good people of Montana will be paying a buck per kWh.
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Quote:NorthWestern Energy CEO Brian Bird acknowledged in 2023: “I may be the only CEO in the utility industry adding coal to his portfolio.”
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No it's not. You'll have to burn coal to power your cars because electricity isn't magic, and the good people of Montana will be paying a buck per kWh.
All-in on fossil fuels
Montana has never denied a fossil fuel permit, whether for extraction, transportation, or burning of fossil fuels. In a 2022 debate, then-candidate Ryan Zinke, now a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition. Montana Sen. Steve Daines has received well over $1 million in campaign donations from the fossil fuel industry and routinely characterizes efforts to decarbonize energy as an “attack on American energy.” During this winter’s legislative session, state lawmakers tried to ban the teaching of scientific theories in K-12 education and passed new laws that block cities from making their own policies that would encourage non-fossil sources of energy.
The primary defense from the state thus far is that its emissions are “too minuscule to make any difference.” Stermitz called Montana a spectator in the realm of global climate change, adding “there is absolutely nothing Montana does or could do” to reach the plaintiffs’ goal of reducing carbon pollution in the atmosphere to safe levels.
“Would an oil refinery upwind of Glacier National Park, by itself, affect the rate of glacier loss?” Stermitz asked in cross-examination of glacier researcher Dan Fagre.
Similar lines of questioning followed each expert testimony. What would be the impact of one state’s emissions on a problem of global proportions? If Montana stopped burning coal, could the effect be measured in snowpack, wildfire smoke, or drought? Can a specific state policy be directly linked to the harm of an individual child in the state? If there is no measurable, specific impact, then perhaps the state has no responsibility for the peril of its children.
Then again, the same argument could be made for any large-scale problem. If any single actor is insufficient to move the needle, then perhaps all actors are free from responsibility. It’s the very reasoning that has led the world into crisis in the first place.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/inside-the-unexpectedly-wil
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proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition.
Because "clean" energy is a fallacy in a world with 8 Billion people and growing, you dolt.
And a very expensive one at that.
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Groundbreaking youth-led climate trial comes to an end in Montana
Ruling could take weeks to emerge in trial for Held v Montana, which is the first constitutional climate trial in US history
A groundbreaking climate trial came to an early close on Tuesday as lawyers on each side presented a very different picture of who can be held responsible for the climate crisis.
Attorneys representing the lawsuit’s young challengers said Montana officials and agencies must be held accountable for exacerbating the crisis, and thereby violating the plaintiffs’ state constitutional rights. But the defense argued that climate change is a global problem. Let the Chinese fix the problem since they are bigger CO2 polluters than Montana. The Chinese said they would gladly fix it, but only if Montana pays for the fix. Montana refused.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/20/held-v-montana-climate
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Quote:Nothing but failure is possible if you do nothing. You have bragged for years about doing nothing, 6ix, so your attitude that clean energy is a fallacy can become the only reality. Other countries are not plagued by loafers like you:
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proudly said he wanted no part of the clean energy transition.
Because "clean" energy is a fallacy in a world with 8 Billion people and growing, you dolt.
And a very expensive one at that.
China’s Wind and Solar Are Now Almost Enough to Power Every Home. Wind and solar output jumped 21% last year to 1,190 terawatt-hours of electricity. That’s not far off total residential power consumption of 1,340 terawatt-hours.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-14/china-s-wind-and-so
lar-are-now-almost-enough-to-power-every-home
China is set to have 3,300GW of solar and wind in place by 2030, smashing by almost three times its own renewable energy goal for the end of the decade
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/china-to-hit-3-3tw-of-w
ind-and-solar-by-2030-on-road-to-energy-self-sufficiency-goldman-sachs/2-1-1430327
China builds vast solar, wind power parks in deserts
With 2,600 to 3,400 annual sunshine hours, Inner Mongolia ranks second only to Tibet Autonomous Region in the country in solar energy resources. Solar energy has emerged as a primary focus for driving the region's energy transformation in the latest round of the energy revolution.
The region has attracted leading photovoltaic manufacturing enterprises such as GCL Technology Holdings Limited, Tongwei Co., Ltd., TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Risen Energy Co., Ltd. and LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. to shape up the whole industrial chain.
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6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.
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6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.
Right back at you, boy.
P.S. China had zero Covid too, and they didn't unleash it from a lab.
If you believe one lie from China, you have to believe them all. You don't get to pick and choose.
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Quote:Where I live, in Republican-controlled Texas, the rich are Democrats and the poor are Republicans. My East Texas relatives are all poor, lazy, and stupid, but every one of them denies that simple truth. Instead, they see their problems (so many problems with alcohol, family, money, children, job, cultural) as not being their own fault, but caused by Democrats. My East Texas relatives are all Trumptards and they are all burdened by problems they caused for themselves, but which they think Democrats caused.
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6ix, you and your Trumptards are an affliction, a time-wasting degenerate disease in the US.
Right back at you, boy.
P.S. China had zero Covid too, and they didn't unleash it from a lab.
If you believe one lie from China, you have to believe them all. You don't get to pick and choose.
In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free. There was also the thing about going to college and becoming a school teacher, a nurse, and an engineer. My Trumptard relatives think that there was some kind of cheating going on to explain why the non-Trumptards prospered while they did not. The reality is very simple: Trumptards are poor because they won't do what they should do to correct their lives and grow wealthy. And they fooled themselves into believing climate change is a hoax.
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/09/biden-voting-coun
ties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/
Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B
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In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.
You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.
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Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.
Not "Biden*" voting counties. Democrat owned counties that include non-Democrat voting suburbs that surround the crime ridden, Democrat infested large cities.
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Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
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Affluent WHITE Americans.
Democrats used to be against war, government invasion of privacy and large corporations too. Now you're sucking the dicks of neo-cons and warmongers, and running defense for Disney.
Guess we know what happened now, don't we?
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In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.
You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.Quote:
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.
Not "Biden*" voting counties. Democrat owned counties that include non-Democrat voting suburbs that surround the crime ridden, Democrat infested large cities.Quote:
Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/artic
le/polarization-of-the-rich-the-new-democratic-allegiance-of-affluent-americans-and-the-politics-of-redistribution/E18D7DAE3A1EF35BA5BC54DE799F291B
Affluent WHITE Americans.
Democrats used to be against war, government invasion of privacy and large corporations too. Now you're sucking the dicks of neo-cons and warmongers, and running defense for Disney.
Guess we know what happened now, don't we?
Also...
Wall Street Sours on America’s Downtowns
The pessimism from investors who bet on office buildings and mass transit can be seen in market signals that are flashing red
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cities-real-estate-bonds-taxes-c6736f8b?m
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Investors are paying less for bonds linked to New York subways and buses. Downtown-focused real-estate investment trusts trade at less than half their prepandemic levels. Bondholders are demanding extra interest to hold office-building debt.
Downtowns have been a mother lode for American cities over the years, providing billions of dollars in tax revenue along with their distinctive skylines. In turn, investors who bet on downtown office towers, or on the trains and buses delivering workers to them, could generally trust they held a winning hand.
Now, with white-collar workers spending more time in their home offices, a phenomenon that shows few signs of ending, investments linked to downtowns are trading at falling prices in volatile markets.
“You could see this as a slow-motion change or as the beginning of a slow-moving train wreck,” said Richard Ciccarone, president emeritus of Merritt Research Services, a municipal credit-analysis firm. “I hope it’s not a train wreck, but it could be.”
Investors’ dimming view of downtowns isn’t good news for cities’ finances, nor for their residents. It puts under strain some of city governments’ traditional ways of extracting wealth: collecting property taxes on office buildings, taxes on wages earned within city limits, and fares from office workers’ commutes.
Residents of some cities are bracing for austerity. Many New York library branches expect to close an additional day each week under cuts proposed as the city faces rising labor costs and budget gaps projected to reach $7 billion in 2027. From New York to Chicago to San Francisco, residents and visitors complain about empty downtown streets and transit stops that have become way stations for the mentally ill and homeless.
How long do you think that is going to be true given the current economic conditions that your party is responsible for?
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Trump goes crazy:
“Driven by his ridiculous regulations, electric cars will kill more than half of U.S. auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already — decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs and it’s going to decimate more than anybody else, the state of Michigan,” he added. “It’s is going to be decimation it’s going to be at a level that that people can’t even imagine.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4067252-trump-takes-aim-a
t-ev-industry-during-speech-to-michigan-republicans/
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Quote:Carbon dioxide is one of those limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.
You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.
There is a concept called negative liberty that Trumptards live by to their sorrow. They don't recognize the limits on what they can do and the results are very sad for them. Obesity and drunkenness because they won't recognize that they can't eat and drink whatever pleases them. Bankruptcy because they won't align their spending with their income. Divorce because they won't stay within the limits of marriage. Mental illness because they think they can have it all. Do Trumptards stay within limits once they hit the fences that limit them? No! Instead, they blame Democrats for the existence of limits. Trumptards want to tear down the fences, but Democrats didn't erect those fences and cliff edges and danger zones. The limits were always there before there were people. Carbon dioxide is one of those always there limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please. Biology is another of those always there limits that Trumptards keep crashing into and ruining their health then not comprehending what they did wrong as they grow fatter, drunker, and more drug-addicted until their stupidity kills the Trumptards.
Negative liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
6ix, because you will miss the point, people who recognize where the limits are will prosper. Those who won't pay attention to limits because limits mean they don't have enough liberty to satisfy their enormous egos, will not prosper.
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Quote:Carbon dioxide is one of those limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please.
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Originally posted by second:
In contrast, my immediate family, father, mother, two sisters, moved to Pasadena Texas, worked at Burger King, and got rich. Their family lives are problem free.
You're even younger than I thought. The naivety of that statement puts you at around 13 years old.
There is a concept called negative liberty that Trumptards live by to their sorrow. They don't recognize the limits on what they can do and the results are very sad for them. Obesity and drunkenness because they won't recognize that they can't eat and drink whatever pleases them. Bankruptcy because they won't align their spending with their income. Divorce because they won't stay within the limits of marriage. Mental illness because they think they can have it all. Do Trumptards stay within limits once they hit the fences that limit them? No! Instead, they blame Democrats for the existence of limits. Trumptards want to tear down the fences, but Democrats didn't erect those fences and cliff edges and danger zones. The limits were always there before there were people. Carbon dioxide is one of those always there limits to the freedom of Trumptards to do whatever they please. Biology is another of those always there limits that Trumptards keep crashing into and ruining their health then not comprehending what they did wrong as they grow fatter, drunker, and more drug-addicted until their stupidity kills the Trumptards.
Negative liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
6ix, because you will miss the point, people who recognize where the limits are will prosper. Those who won't pay attention to limits because limits mean they don't have enough liberty to satisfy their enormous egos, will not prosper.
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LOL, yup.
There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.
You're an idiot and a liar.
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Quote:You don't have to be Trumptard to be a big fat failure in America. Failure isn't a complicated or uncommon phenomenon in that country. It is a personal choice, the same as how much you eat, drink, or smoke. Smokers like 6ix are a special kind of failure because every pack of cigarettes tells them the simple truth: that tobacco will kill you, but people who are failures in life will keep on smoking. They will also falsely claim that electric cars are, indirectly, coal-burning cars because the Trumptards are reassuring themselves they are successes. Trump tells his Trumptards that they are huge successes, which gets their votes for him.
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LOL, yup.
There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.
You're an idiot and a liar.
Donald Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant Against Electric Cars
https://futurism.com/donald-trump-bizarre-rant-electric-cars
Donald Trump goes on a nonsensical rant about electric cars: ‘We need to get rid of them’
https://electrek.co/2022/09/05/donald-trump-nonsensical-rant-electric-
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Let’s stop selling dictators the rope with which they hang people: our neighbours – and ultimately us. And if there’s one base element that powers Putin’s claims to invincibility, it’s reliance on fossil fuels. The battle against Putin is also the battle against climate crisis. As Prof Alexander Etkind lays out in his new book, Russia Against Modernity, Putin’s economy has been up to two-thirds dependent on oil and gas exports, largely to Europe, and crucially through pipelines that cross Ukraine.
Etkind argues that Putin launched his invasion in part to control this flow. Moreover, he wanted to destabilise Europe, flooding it with refugees and instilling so much chaos and fear that Europe would be forced to abandon plans for net zero carbon emissions by 2050. As so often in the course of this war, Putin’s aims have backfired. The invasion has led to a decrease in dependence on Russian energy. Putin’s aura of fossil-fuelled invincibility has been shaken, but we are only part of the way there. Faster decarbonisation is the most sustainable way to not only undermine Putin, but also to limit the opportunity for future Russian leaders and other resource-rich authoritarians to wage aggressive wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/yevgeny-prigozhi
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LOL, yup.
There aren't any democrats who are overweight, or drink too much, or ever got a divorce, or ever went bankrupt, or ever had any mental illness of any kind.
You're an idiot and a liar.
Idiot and a liar.
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Quote:6ix, you are fat, drunk and stupid. That is no way to go through life.
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Idiot and a liar.
6ix attends college without graduating. I wonder what happened?
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June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points
Research shows heat domes, wildfires and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms; unabated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause.
By Bob Berwyn, July 4, 2023
Earth’s critical reflective polar ice caps are at their lowest extent on record in the satellite era, with the sea ice around Antarctica at a record-low extent by far, spurring worried scientists to share dramatic charts of the missing ice repeatedly. In the Arctic, the month ended with the Greenland Ice Sheet experiencing one of the largest June melt events ever recorded, and with scientists reporting that June 2023 was the hottest June ever measured . . .
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072023/june-extremes-climate-tipp
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global cimate shift is happening
unfortunately TPTB 'Great Resetters', who would force deprivation on the world that they themselves would never have to experience (what? give up private jets, hand-raised beef steak, joyrides in space, and MIC/finance super-profits?) and 'extinction rebellion' whackos gave the concept a bad name.
USA solutions are obvious:
give up regime changes and wars of aggression (cloaked as 'fighting for democracy/ R2P/ < insert your favorite cause here >'. imagine the fuel and production savings!
improve forestry practices to require selective thinning, prescribed burns, and in-situ pyrolization, preventing catastrophic wildfires (one bad forest fire year in CA undid eighteen years of 'decarbonization'!)
change agricultural practices to increase soil carbon including cover cropping, and incentivize farmers for it
intensively manage grazing to improve pastureland and soil retention
ban private jets, and raise air fare for all classes of passengers to reduce air travel
set a hard limit on passenger vehicle weights and per mile emissions
switch to nat gas fuel where possible, including internal combustion engines
install solar panels in 'sunshine' states. require energy conservation in building repairs, renovation and new construction
revitalize train transportation for cargo, and mass transit for commuting including 'land ferries' and trolley cars for high-density urban areas.
commit to environmental remediation of degraded areas
improve electric grid transmission efficiency in areas where it falls belows 97 pct, and improve grid capacity to accommodate electric vehicles
abroad, encourage girl's basic education, which reliably leads to lower birth rates
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yanno i'm sure i missed a few big ones.
what this will require is not 'sacrifice' by the 'useless eaters' but investment which will create jobs, and will reduce profit. but let the wealthy chip in on this cause, tho, eh?
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Quote:Technically, switching fuels would fix the problem, but then that brings another problem that is totally political. Why pay more for jet fuel when climate change is a Chinese hoax? https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
global climate shift is happening
unfortunately TPTB 'Great Resetters', who would force deprivation on the world that they themselves would never have to experience (what? give up private jets
ban private jets, and raise air fare for all classes of passengers to reduce air travel
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) cost: Currently, SAFs are more expensive than traditional jet fuel. Estimates range from 2x for some waste-based sources to 6-10x for synthetic fuels using carbon capture from the atmosphere. This is mainly due to the small production runs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sustainable+Aviation+Fuel+%28SAF%29+co
st
“In 2022, SAF prices continue to price at least three times higher than those for conventional petroleum jet fuel,” Argus Media's Burke says. Argus assessed SAF at US$3,530.57/ tonne on 12 August compared to the conventional jet fuel price of US$1,114.50/tonne.
https://issuu.com/quartzbusinessmedia/docs/ofi_nov.dec_2022/s/17240005
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you must love your private jet, SECOND!
one problem with jets, and all combustion, but especially with combusion of heavier fuels like diesel and jet fuel (and trees): not only do they create CO2, a greenhouse gas, they also create fine carbon particles. these paticles spread across the globe and blanket everything, including icefields everywhere, and greatly accelerate melting, lowering the earth's albedo and setting yet another warming process in motion. if the covid lockdown taught us anything, it's that you don't HAVE to jet of to 'meetings' here and there. air travel is, for the most part, unnecessary.
i have yet to see 'sustainable' anything. alot of things that claim to be 'sustainable' are either direct scams (like the various 'carbon reduction' schemes offered for carbon trading that don't exist) don't reduce net greenhouse gases (like 'lab grown' meat') or have other negative environmental effects (like overusing fertilizer, causing massive runoffs and lake dieoffs to grow corn for ethanol)
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
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Quote:Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax
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Quote:Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?
Originally posted by second:Quote:Industry switched from glass bottles to plastic because it was cheaper. Airplanes will not switch from fossil fuels to hydrogen and synthetic fuels made with atmospheric carbon because it is cheaper to not change. Being a cheapskate will end with us dead. The opposition claims that since climate change is a Chinese hoax, there is no reason to be other than a cheapskate.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
on a related note, we need to stop using so much plastic bc we now live in the 'plasticene' era
https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+change+is+a+Chinese+hoax
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Drawing a parallel with Covid: real problem, nefarious"solutions".
We can't trust business IR our government to solve anything without using the issue to try to screw us over.
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Quote:This is also Capitalism, but there are anti-monopoly laws that could, over the objections of Congressmen from a particular political party, forcefully beat back the Capitalist ethic:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, capitalism sucks, doesn't it?
Quote:https://jabberwocking.com/how-to-build-a-monopoly-in-less-than-a-year/
The multibillion-dollar private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe took less than a year to create, from scratch, Colorado’s biggest and most prominent anesthesiology practice. The financiers created a company, U.S. Anesthesia Partners, which in 2015 bought the largest anesthesiology group in the Denver region. Then it bought the next largest. Then it bought a few more....The Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to prevent unfair business practices, questioned the company’s growth but did not stop it. The company raised prices for its services — one by nearly 30 percent in its first year in Colorado — and continued raising them for several years, according to interviews and confidential company documents obtained by The Washington Post.
It is imaginable that the FTC could brutally beat sense into some Capitalists over price-gouging monopolies. It is less imaginable that Congress would give the EPA the new power to brutally beat sense into Capitalists over fuels and plastics. Why is it less imaginable? Because Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax according to many in Congress.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Climate+Change+is+a+Chinese+Hoax
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Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
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Quote:The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:
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Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
Quote:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Meat-Inspection-Act
The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died. Roosevelt, who served in Cuba as a colonel, testified in 1899 that he would have eaten his old hat as soon as eat what he called “embalmed beef.”
The canned meat scandal prompted Thomas F. Dolan, a former superintendent for Armour & Co., to sign an affidavit noting the ineffectiveness of government inspectors and stating that the company’s common practice was to pack and sell “carrion.” The New York Journal published Dolan’s statement on March 4, 1899. The Senate then formed the Pure-Food Investigating Committee, which held hearings in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City from 1899 to 1900. The committee declared such common meat preservatives as borax, salicylic acid, and formaldehyde to be “unwholesome.” The press also reported from the committee’s hearings that some of the nation’s food supply was adulterated—made impure by the addition of foreign or inferior substances. These concerns were in addition to the health problems posed by the packaging of substandard or condemned meat products.
Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.
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Biden’s hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust
The EU is investing billions into becoming a green energy superpower. But Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act means it’s the U.S. reaping the rewards.
Nel is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of electrolyzers for hydrogen production, and its Michigan gigafactory will be one of the largest in the world.
By Gabriel Gavin and Ben Lefebvre
07/05/2023 04:30 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
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European leaders have devoted tens of billions of dollars toward encouraging production of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel that advocates say will create jobs and help fight climate change.
But now, many of those jobs will be going to the United States instead.
The clean energy subsidies that undergird President Joe Biden’s climate agenda have just prompted one Norwegian manufacturer to choose Michigan, not Europe, as the site of a nearly $500 million factory that will produce the equipment needed to extract hydrogen from water. And other European-based companies are being tempted to follow suit, people involved in the continent’s hydrogen efforts say — making the universe’s most abundant substance the latest focus of the transatlantic trade battle on green energy.
The Norwegian firm, Nel, announced its decision in May, nine months after Congress approved Biden’s flagship climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The move takes 500 new jobs to the other side of the Atlantic, despite the European Union’s efforts to position itself as the obvious place for clean tech investment.
Gas grab riles Europeans
“There’s not one single driver behind the decision to put it in the U.S.,” Nel CEO Håkon Volldal told POLITICO, pointing to the benefit of being close to customers and partners like General Motors, as well as the financial benefits of the IRA, the Biden-era CHIPS and Science Act that provides funding for technology development, and Michigan’s own grants for green tech.
“If you take the IRA and the CHIPS Act together, we’re talking about more than $400 billion,” Volldal said. “On top of that, you have subsidies for renewable power and so on. Europe is dwarfed by the numbers we see in the U.S.”
The global hydrogen industry was valued at more than $155 billion last year, and the EU plans to produce and import a total of 20 million tons of renewable hydrogen a year by 2030. Supporters say this will help replace natural gas, powering vehicles and generating electricity.
Now, though, the U.S. has its sights set on overtaking Europe when it comes to both hydrogen and the electrolyzers that extract it. The IRA introduced a $3-per-kilogram subsidy for green hydrogen and tens of billions of dollars in loans and other incentives for international investors to put money into the industry.
“A year ago, the EU clearly had the yellow jersey,” Volldal said, referring to the garment that the fastest cyclist wears in the Tour de France. “Now the U.S. has it.”
Jorgo Chatzimarkakis agrees. As the CEO of Hydrogen Europe, he’s one of the continent’s most influential lobbyists, having helped secure industry handouts worth billions of dollars. “We have a very robust framework in the EU, but we fail to attract our own companies because it’s all too complex,” he said. “We have ambitious targets, but we don’t have simple and efficient instruments to incentivize businesses.
“In their typical bureaucratic way, the Europeans will kill this business,” Chatzimarkakis said.
That leaves those who’ve helped launch the industry at risk of losing out, Chatzimarkakis added.
“Dung beetles spend hours rolling up balls of dung to attract females,” he said. “But there are some very smart dung beetles that just sit by the side and watch while others do hard work. Then they shoot in, take the dung ball, take the girl and run away with everything. That’s Joe Biden.”
Much more at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/biden-hydrogen-europe-0010402
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Earth sees third straight hottest day on record, though it's unofficial
July 6, 2023 / 5:45 AM / CBS/AP
Earth's average temperature remained at a record high Wednesday after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records. It's the latest marker in a series of climate-change-driven extremes.
The average global temperature was 62.9 degrees, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world's condition. That matched a record set Tuesday and came after a previous record of 62.6 degrees was set Monday.
Not only that but last month was the world's hottest June since records have been kept, the European Union's climate monitoring service said, according to Agence France-Presse. "The month was the warmest June globally ... exceeding June 2019 -- the previous record -- by a substantial margin," the EU monitor said in a statement from its C3S climate unit.
Scientists have warned for months that 2023 could see record heat as human-caused climate change, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil, warmed the atmosphere.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-hottest-days-third-straight/
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Capitalists hate anything that cuts into their profits, like competition. They try to eliminate competition wherever it rears its ugly head.
The other thing they hate is actual... yanno.. manufacturing. If rate of return is the only metric, then financialism is more profitable.
So capitalism inevitably ends in monopoly financialism. If money didn't corrupt the media and politics, maybe there would be some redress, but right now America is in the grip of an oligarchy.
SECOND : The way to stop Capitalists from murdering everybody is to kick their asses. For one famous example that I picked because it is so disgusting:Quote:
The first widespread public attention to the unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry came in 1898, when the press reported that Armour & Co., had supplied tons of rotten canned beef to the U.S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The meat had been packed in tins along with a visible layer of boric acid, which was thought to act as a preservative and was used to mask the stench of the rotten meat. Troops who consumed the meat fell ill, becoming unfit for combat, and some died....
Signym, there was an 8-year gap between testimony about rotten meat and making a law against selling such meat. Was there a justification for the long delay? Obviously, everybody has got to eat, so we cannot forbid embalmed beef! So far there has been about a 40-year gap between testimony that CO2 will kill us all and making a law forbidding it. The same kind of justification is used as was with the embalmed beef, everybody needs energy, so we cannot forbid burning coal, oil, gasoline, jet fuel.
what part of 'we are in the grip of an oligarchy' did you not understand?
your precious DNC torpedoed the EU's transition to lower greenhouse gas emissions ... and in fact created one of the largest single-event emissions of greenhouse gases, ever - by blowing up their nat gas pipeline and wasting tons of fuel and manufacturing emissions on a pointless proxy war in a(nother) corrupt nation.
and it's certainly no benefit to fighting climate change if the USA attains top-dog status in hydrogen production if THE WORLD needs to be on the same path ... altho it certainly benefits the capitalists who've cornered that particular niche
Ukraine war threatens climate targets
https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-war-threatens-climate-targets/a-62185483
Climate change: Ukraine war prompts fossil fuel 'gold rush' - report
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61723252
US Military Pollution: The World’s Biggest Climate Change Enabler
https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/
Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/world/europe/g7-summit-ukraine-war-
climate-change.html
as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.
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Quote:Let me pick one of your complaints about me: Warmonger. The Russians have murdered 4 million Ukrainians and made very believable plans to nuke the US to death. If the Ukrainians continue a war with the Russians, this is positively good. If Ukrainians win, even better. Based on my knowledge of the sad lives of East Texans who have ever said a kind word about Trump or Putin, I can make predictions about you without ever knowing you. Signym, your opinions are worthless, the same as those East Texans' opinions. I'd wish you well, but reality will deny you that because of what you do and what you believe is factual/ethical/attainable, just as reality brutally manhandles those East Texans because they stubbornly misunderstand the obvious reality all around them, including their strong yet false belief that Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
as long as you maintain goals that are mutally exclusive (i.e warmomgering v fighting climate change; supporting the DNC v solving america's problems; expecting progress from monopolism ) you'll continue to torture logic and objectivity trying to rationlize irrationality.
SECOND: Let me pick one of your complaints about me: Warmonger. The Russians have murdered 4 million Ukrainians...
HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!
Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!
Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.
WE destroyed nations, rampaging across the globe from Indochina and the Pacific to the Mideast, Africa, and Central and South America, killing millions. Maybe a hundred million. And I don't mean in the long-distant past. It was about "fighting communism" or " the drug war" or "WMD!" or "global war
Bc, really, it was all just about the petrodollar, the unipolar moment, and global domination!
Ukraine is just another one of our proxy wars toward the destruction of Russia, and the EU is just another economic battlefield. And Taiwan could be the proxy battlefield against China.
So, back to the issue at hand: you can't be a warmonger and say you're fighting global climate change, and you can't expect progress from monopolies and oligarchs.
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Quote:A quibble over the words "fighting global climate change". There is nothing to fight. For example, you don't "fight" obesity by attacking McDonald's for selling french fries. Instead, you live on a diet. You eat less. You don't drink McDonald's milkshakes. And at the end of the process, when you have digested a small, not large, amount of McDonald's food, you don't dump your waste onto the street. Instead, use a toilet. The fossil fuel industry, unlike McDonald's, does NOT HAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF A TOILET FOR WASTE CO2! We are being buried alive under trillions of tons of CO2, a million times more waste than all the fully digested french fries eaten and excreted by humans.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, back to the issue at hand: you can't be a warmonger and say you're fighting global climate change, and you can't expect progress from monopolies and oligarchs.
If only CO2 waste was solid it would make a pile bigger and heavier than all the mountain ranges on Earth. It would be so very obvious that man has taken the biggest bowel movement the Earth has ever known. It is a huge mess that needs to be cleaned up before landslides of CO2 waste bury all civilization.
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Toyota Is Right: We Need More Hybrid Cars and Fewer EVs. Here’s Why
The auto industry is going all-in on EVs, but a more effective way to lower emissions quickly is staring us in the face.
by James Gilboy| PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2023 1:30 PM EDT
https://www.thedrive.com/features/toyota-is-right-we-need-more-hybrid-
cars-and-fewer-evs-heres-why
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Quote:1) Germany already received its punishment when 7 million Germans were killed.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
1) HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!
2) Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!
3) Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.
2) What killed 90% of Native Americans?
They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
3) During the Civil War, the Confederates, unlike the Germans, did NOT receive the death sentences they earned. Seven million dead Confederates would be approximately the right price for them to pay. Instead, slave-owning President Andrew Johnson pardoned the Confederates because he and they were on the same side. This is the real reason why Critical Race Theory is attacked by Neo-Confederates. CRT is a reminder the old Confederates did NOT pay even 1% of what they should have paid for all the destruction the Confederates caused. At the very least, there should not be any schools in the US named after General Robert E Lee or any other Confederate.
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Quote:And even more Russians were killed. So what?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
1) HEY, Nazis killed 6 million Jews, a million other Europeans and 25 million Russians.
I have an idea! Let's go kill us some Germans!
2) Or here's another one: Americans killed an estimated 9-15 million natives in the course of N America's conquest. Let's kill us some Americans!
3) Yanno, you can't redress historic injustices. The individuals responsible for them ARE DEAD. And most definitely, you can't achieve peace thru war, unless you want to kill everyone and achieve the peace of a graveyard.
SECOND: 1) Germany already received its punishment when 7 million Germans were killed.
Justice doesn't work that way.
Quote:Disease acquired while soldiers, colonists and settlers stole their land by force of arms and broke treaty after treaty. "Not one inch westward" or its equivalent was in quite a few of those treaties. It was genocide SECOND. And that injustice can't be redressed bc those responsible ARE DEAD.
SECOND: 2) What killed 90% of Native Americans?
They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
Quote:*Commanding officers and polticians? Soldiers? Slave owners? All white adults? All white children?
SECOND: 3) During the Civil War, the Confederates, unlike the Germans, did NOT receive the death sentences they earned. Seven million dead Confederates
would be approximately the right price for them*
Quote:All dogs are animals. Not all animals are dogs. Critical race theory may be attacked by neo-Confederates, but not everyone who attacks CRT is a neo-Confederate.
to pay. Instead, slave-owning President Andrew Johnson pardoned the Confederates because he and they were on the same side. This is the real reason why Critical Race Theory is attacked by Neo-Confederates.
Quote:Yanno, the Confederate Army killed a lot of whites, too. Bc as I recall, the northern army was white.
CRT is a reminder the old Confederates did NOT pay even 1% of what they* should have paid for all the destruction the Confederates caused.
First of all, I noticed that you avoided our recent "wars of choice".. wars for which many responsible individuals are still alive and can still be held accountable. When justice is possible, you avoid it.
For some strange reason, you prefer collective guilt and collective punishment (which, BTW is a war crime) and call for genocide (another war crime) to "redress" historic crimes. Thinking of people as categories and calling for categorical punishement is the same as saying all blacks are violent and all Muslims are jihadist. Worse, you want to punish entire categorie for historic wrongs. You still seem to think that "justice" can be reached for wrongs committed generations ago.
It can't. The best anyone can do is pursue punishment for the guilty who are still alive, and avoid perpetuating injustice in the future
BTW, CRT is an issue bc prejudice is still alive and well in the USA, which can't be fixed by privilege for blacks and prejudice against other races, it can only be fixed by equality of opportunity and blind justice/blind meritocracy.
Also... JOBS would really help.
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Antarctic ice levels undergo ‘massive decrease’, data shows
https://www.reuters.com/world/antarctic-ice-levels-undergo-massive-dec
rease-data-shows-2023-07-10/
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The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act is bigger and more far-reaching than you think
In the most extensive analysis to date, researchers ran nine different models to estimate the IRA’s impacts on the U.S. energy system and economy.
By Sarah DeWeerdt, July 11, 2023
Landmark climate legislation passed in the United States in 2022 could nearly halve the U.S. economy’s overall emissions compared to 2005 levels by 2035, according to a new analysis. But on its own, it still won’t be sufficient to meet the country’s pledges under the Paris Agreement.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is possibly the most significant piece of U.S. climate legislation yet. Its provisions include tax credits for clean energy, energy storage, and carbon capture; measures to promote energy efficiency, reduce methane emissions, develop domestic supply chains, and ensure environmental justice; and many others.
In fact, the IRA is so big and complex that its effects on the energy system and economy can’t simply be totted up but instead must be analyzed using powerful computer models. In the new study, the most extensive effort yet to get a handle on the legislation’s impact, researchers used nine different models to estimate the likely impacts of the IRA’s most important provisions.
The models varied in their scope (six encompassed the entire U.S. energy system while the remaining three only included the electricity sector) and level of detail. Some of the models were used to inform discussion prior to the IRA’s passage, and others were added new for this analysis. The researchers analyzed the similarities and differences between the predictions of the different models, and compared them to a hypothetical scenario in which the IRA had not been passed.
By 2035, overall emissions of the U.S. economy are likely to be 43 to 48% lower than they were in 2005, the researchers report in the journal Science. Without the IRA, emissions would be 27-35% below 2005 levels, they calculated. This is one of several findings that indicate the IRA is likely to accelerate existing trends in the economy. In short, the green transition is already happening, but the IRA speeds it along.
The models show that on average, nearly two-thirds of the emissions reductions come from the power sector. Electricity emissions will fall to an average of 68% below 2005 levels in 2030, and 87% below 2005 levels by 2035. Without the IRA, power sector emissions would fall by only about half of 2005 levels by 2035.
The IRA will spur lots of solar and wind power development. On average, the models indicate that solar and wind generating capacity will grow by 58 gigawatts per year from 2021 through 2035 – more than twice the growth rate without the legislation, and greater than the record installation of 33 gigawatts in 2021.
The IRA will also reduce transportation-related emissions by encouraging adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The models predict on average that EVs will make up 41% of all cars and light trucks sold in 2030, compared to 31% in the scenario without the IRA and way up from 7% of all sales in 2022.
The reduction in fossil fuel use means that American households and businesses will spend more on electricity, but less on energy overall. Households could pay $13 to $190 less for energy per year by 2030 and $73 to $370 less by 2035, compared to the scenario without the IRA, the researchers found.
Like most other nations, the United States has made pledges to reduce carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal to hold global warming to 2 °C. But also like most other nations, the country is not on track to fulfill these promises.
The United States has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030. Without the IRA, the country will fall short of that goal by 1.0 to 1.6 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year, according to the analysis. The IRA narrows this emissions gap to 0.5 to 1.1 gigatonnes per year.
“Although IRA accelerates decarbonization, including beyond 2030, no models indicate
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end the war in ukraine
eliminate pentagon's overseas presence
eliminate private jets
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The Rocky Mountain Institute released a report today forecasting that solar and wind are growing so fast and getting so cheap that they're now on track to produce 30% of all electricity by 2030 and upwards of 70-85% by 2050:
If we can do this, we'd be at net zero emissions by 2050, and RMI thinks it's well within reason. That's still not enough to rein in global warming completely, since there's more to emissions than just electricity, but it would certainly be a start.
https://jabberwocking.com/net-zero-by-2050/
https://rmi.org/press-release/renewable-energy-deployment-puts-global-
power-system-on-track-for-ambitious-net-zero-pathway/
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Why Exxon Mobil is spending $4.9 billion on a company that pumps carbon dioxide back into the earth
Exxon Mobil this week announced plans to acquire oil producer Denbury. Denbury also has a business of capturing carbon-dioxide emissions.
Some of that captured CO2 could be put to use by other industries, including makers of fertilizers and other chemicals. Most of the captured carbon dioxide will likely be stored underground, however.
The IEA estimates that if the world achieves net-zero emissions by 2050, less than 5% of the carbon captured would be used, while the rest would need to be stored.
Transporting CO2 requires pipelines, and Denbury has 1,300 miles of carbon dioxide pipelines; much of its network spans Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. Denbury also already has 10 sites where it stores carbon.
The purchase would help Exxon go deeper into this business.
The deal with Denbury is one of several carbon-capture and storage deals Exxon has made in less than a year, including a plan to capture, transport, and store carbon emissions from a steelmaking plant in Louisiana by 2026.
Exxon has carbon-capture and storage facilities in the US, Qatar, and Australia, and at least 10 more have been announced around the world.
The IEA said that even if all the planned sites come online by 2030, the entire industry combined would only be capturing about one-third of the carbon dioxide needed to hit net-zero emissions by midcentury. – https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation-and-stora
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