Blowout 208
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world:
In this week’s Blowout we once more feature Tesla’s Big South Australian Battery, which is already helping to save Australia from blackouts. We follow with OPEC’s dilemma; Saudi Arabia hunts for gas; Macron backs nuclear; BHP exits the World Coal Organization; China’s carbon trading market; India’s hybrid wind-solar project; AEMO’s baseload-free future; CSP in the Sahara; Swansea Bay on the skids; climate scientists flock to France; snowfall doubles in Alaska while climate change threatens the Winter Olympics, and Season’s Greetings to all our readers.
Like everything else that is an over reach
Eventually, common sense will come back with a vengeance amid homilies about lessons learned.
Both pending bylaws claim to make exceptions for lengthy power outages, but the broader implication of these policies is clear. They will remove from existence the vast majority of legacy fireplaces and wood stoves and, given a hefty application of red tape, strongly discourage all new installations. The Vancouver proposal actually contemplates an annual fireplace registration renewal process, like a driver’s licence.
Not just a cult, a death-cult.
As witnessed today in Victoria up to Nanaimo.
Blowout 207
Bitcoin mining to consume the world
No kidding, Sherlock.
Anyone who thought about it already knew ‘revenue neutral’ was about the surtax. (paywall link)
Shiny can’t increase the GST without taking a huge hit, the only answer was to create a new tax and tax it. No one really thought it was about the environment except the cult prostitutes.
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Virtual Energy
Has the day of the smart computer controlled micro-grid arrived? Should we all be getting ready to become energy traders? Or is this just the latest craze in Green utopia?
Virtual Energy
Blowout 206
An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world.
Have you ever wondered how you are going to charge your EV during a blackout? This week’s feature story tells you. We continue with more US oil to Asia; the Israel-Italy natural gas pipeline; Chinese hydro projects canceled; BHP installs 30MW of diesel generation; Google now 100% renewable; “game over” for CCS; GE to cut 12,000 jobs; Europe’s utilities to go 100% carbon-neutral; Korea to Moorside’s rescue; UK mismanagement of North Sea oil and how climate change is going to be even worse than we thought.
Terrorists
Canadian terrorists take responsibility.
Find them. Charge them. Incarcerate them.
The Sound Of Weaponized Science
Today I sent a letter to the editors of the journal Bioscience requesting retraction of the shoddy and malicious paper by Harvey et al. (Internet blogs, polar bears, and climate-change denial by proxy) published online last week.
The letter reveals information about the workings of the polar bear expert inner circle not known before now, so grab your popcorn.
Y2Kyoto: Bigger, Badder
The experience of the Soviets, the only rivals to the Nazis for engineering gigantism, is instructive. In its haste to improve agriculture, USSR implemented irrigation projects that destroyed the Aral Sea. “The Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature, also known as Stalin’s plan for the transformation of nature, was proposed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union in the second half of the 1940s, for land development, agricultural practices and water projects to improve agriculture in the nation.” The Plan needless to say, did not work.
Yet the mind-boggling goals of the German superproject and even Stalin’s Great Plan pale in comparison to the biggest engineering undertaking of our age: the Paris Climate Agreement. With a 195 signatories the goal of the agreement is nothing less than the modification of the weather system of the entire planet, a much bigger deal than simply damming up the Straits of Gibraltar. It sails serenely on. Most political leaders have signed on to the accord on the same basis that Philippine health authorities agreed to Dengvaxia: rational ignorance. Presidents and prime ministers, incapable of independently judging the technological soundness of the Paris Agreement, must rely instead scientific consensus that it’s good.
Blowout 205
Al Gore on making money from climate change
The End of Britain
in particular over-production of sub-prime graduates and lastly UK Energy Policy that is focussed on high cost inefficient energy systems
Will Tesla Powerwalls Save You Money?
but he will import an equal amount less from the grid, so it will still be a wash.
Wynneing!
A long-time Barrie butcher has shut his doors and declared bankruptcy. He says it’s because of skyrocketing hydro costs.
On Monday, after 32 years, Lawrence Vindum closed The Butcher Shop for good. He was a month behind on rent and his last hydro bill topped in at $2,956.
“I had three employees and it really makes me sick inside that they’re out of work right before Christmas,” he says.
The Sound Of Settled Science
It’s a cult: Why the climate debate is paralyzing free thinkers and undermining democracy.
Wynneing!
“Our move is already underway,” said Peter Gossmann, vice president and general manager of Plasticap, a producer of caps for food companies, medical firms and other customers.
The company has 40 employees in Richmond Hill and is looking to expand with another 60 employees — only not in Ontario.
Blowout 204
Canadian provinces join global coal phaseout
The Impossible Dream
In order to deliver 4.6 GW uniform and firm RE supply throughout the year, from 26 GW of installed capacity, requires 1.8 TWh of storage. We show that this is both thermodynamically and economically implausible to implement with current technology.
Surprising only the few
Whacko environmentalists, the media and Liberals.
“Sixty-eight to sixty-nine per cent of the market this year is light trucks,” says Dennis DesRosiers, of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. “In fact, for four of the past 12 months, it’s been over 70 per cent, and this will stay positive for another year, at least.” DesRosiers crunches numbers and breaks down stats; he cares little about what ad campaigns and headlines say we should be buying, and instead reports on what we actually are.
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So if the statistical reality is that hybrids and electrics are more like the last mosquito in the room at night instead of the elephant, why is that all we hear about? “I blame you guys,” laughs DesRosiers. “The media play it hard and the OEMs are taking a huge risk on technology that, look at the numbers, nobody wants.” Those internal combustion engines are doing more with less, doing it better, and doing it for longer. Electrics seem to be the answer to a question nobody asked, at least in the passenger and light truck vehicle segment.
Rabid environmentalism is a cult. A very small, insignificant minority. Virtue signalling, on the other hand, is practised by a very large hypocritical mass. This second group, flailing away against coal, oil and gas in their coal, oil and gas fuelled lives push stupid politicians into stupid, unsustainable, and expensive positions.
Blowout 203
Ontario’s duck curve problem