An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around The World compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s lead story features the UK, where nuclear power plants are now apparently being considered as balancing facilities for wind and solar. Hard to follow up on that, but we do our best with OPEC near to accomplishing its goal; New Zealand bans oil & gas exploration; the Russia-Ukraine gas spat continues; Wylfa nuclear plant delayed by seabirds; Lithuania to cut transmission ties to Belarus nuclear plant; brown coal-to-hydrogen in Australia; German coal phase-out to take “several decades”; Ontario’s electricity costs; the Basslink cable down again; Los Angeles paints its streets white; sunscreen saves the Great Barrier Reef and how global warming will cause baby fish to get lost.
the whole world is nuts. i hope i don’t have to hick ass at my age when the terminally stupid have made it all but impossible to keep from freezing to death.
Things are coming to a head. If the Trump admin has a card up its sleeve – as is suggested elsewhere – they’d best play it soon before the swamp drowns them.
So is this global warming that is howling by my balcony at 80kmh? Just trying to keep up.
Thanks to the “Notley Dictator Party (NDP) of Alberta Carbon Tax” the weather has been getting colder ever year since …. if we get rid of it now, there would be less chance of having another Ice Age.
Dave. Dave Dave Dave. the howling wind is your cue to set up a mini wind generator.
jeez. get wit’ da progrum eh?
And now the big concern is again the melting perma frost around Tuk.
Supposedly twice as much co2 in the melting muck as is currently in the atmosphere.
Never an example of how they arrived at the measurement or why their predictions always fail to appear!
Nuclear as balancing reminds me of the story on Euan’s or a similar site describing how the British power authority was proposing to contract with largish stationary backup power plants (ie diesel usually) of at least 1 MW capacity to provide backup power on request
to the grid. Such plants are associated with hospitals, large military bases and certain industries. There would be a monthly availability
payment and then pay for power actually supplied on demand and would require some ancillary equipment for grid connex.