An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews.
This week’s feature story returns us to the UK, which despite previous failures is once more looking into carbon capture & storage. But this time it will be done with a “profoundly large scale sequestration system” big enough to ” arrest the progression of climate change”. This is a hard act to follow, but we do our best with stories on OPEC; renewables, solar subsidies, coal and Rosatom in China; Germany finally sets up a coal phaseout commission; Sweden approves Nordstream 2; too much solar in California and Australia; not enough wind in UK; Drax plans more biomass; Swansea tidal lagoon numbers are “awful”; another way of extracting CO2 from air; liquid air energy storage and why we haven’t found aliens yet – climate change killed them.
Earlier in the week:
I’m puzzled. If “three billion will die from climate change”, and most of the promoters of climate change also believe the world is overpopulated, and about 40% of the Earth’s population is about to die…………………….. WHAT IN HELL IS THE PROBLEM!
Now,please just stfu and go away! We got it,we’re all gonna die.
Came here to say this.
If all global warming will do is ensure that billions of parasites unable or unwilling to contribute positively to an advanced civilization die of hunger, thirst and heat, that can only be a good thing.
Forbes recently wrote that The Ohio state researchers had developed a zero-emissions method of generating energy from coal. In BC a Harvard PhD says he has found a away of creating NG from CO2.
It seems to me a matter of time before technology is commercialized that mitigates in one way or another carbon dioxide production from fossil fuels. That ends the need to regulate carbon. What will the far left come up with then in their attempt to control mankind?
Absolutely — but I don’t think they are interested in this technology since it interferes with their tax grab and one-world government plans. Promoting wind mills (old fashioned technology) is very short-sighted. Solar, perhaps less so, but also not overly practical in most contexts.
“Absolutely — but I don’t think they are interested in this technology since it interferes with their tax grab and one-world government plans.”
This is exactly what it is all about. The rest of the AGW stuff they peddle is just to scare the rubes into following them like lemmings.
Arguably fracking already did that. That’s why US CO2 emissions declined. There’s also that breakthrough in making fuel from air CO2. That’s good.
Gee, we would burn natural gas creating CO2. And then we “process” the CO2 and create natural gas!
Perpetual motion!
Perhaps “mitigation” is counter productive. If say, reason prevails and nuclear power significantly replaces fossil fuels over the next century, the legacy of higher concentrations of CO2 will provide centuries worth of accelerated growth of all primary (photosynthetic) production on the planet.
Germany committed to a phase out of coal? Ha, ha, ha. Aren’t they just finishing an enormous 1000 megawatt coal plant? With two more on the way?
Japan – has build 8 new coal plants and are planning 20 more. Canada could sell them LNG, but BC greens and Americans are opposing Canadian LNG exports. But hold on BC is exporting lots of BC coal and American coal – I guess its clean, green, eco-coal!
And best of all, coal can’t be put into a pipeline but travels via nice safe rail! Don’t anyone mention to the green zealots in the Lower Mainland or Vancouver Island that we’re still mining coal deep in the uncharted and mysterious Interior of B.C., where no city dweller has trod.
If the Green Theocracy drives the agenda for the next few decades, 3 billion less humans on the planet is easily achievable. Jerry Brown, recycled California Governor and former Jimmy Jones supporter along with the rest of the green robbed left could push energy poverty up significantly, resulting in a reversal of the actual green revolution (agricultural efficiency) resulting in more dead brown people all over the planet.
Oh, yes doomsday climate predictions. Be wary of any CAGW study that bases its catastrophic predictions on the IPCC RCP 8.5. RCP 8.5 uses assumptions that are not realistic and then confusingly calls this the business as usual scenario. RCP 8.5 is the Paul Ehrlich/Malthus of climate change predictions.
I must admit that in terms of electricity production I’m not a fan of coal. From first hand experience, I think natgas and hydro are better baseload generation. Coal really is dirtier and less environment friendly but not nearly the monster it’s portrayed as in the media. I’d include nuclear but I’m not familiar enough with that tech and people’s fear of it makes it a hard sell these days. Don’t immediately close coal down but as coal plants reach the end of their lifespan they can be phased out. The coal isn’t going anywhere so if new tech flops and natgas, hydro and coal reach their limits then new coal plants can be built. Until wind and solar can mimic the reliability of baseload coal, natgas, hydro and nukes economically then they are unneccesary.
OMG !!!well, actually I believe everyone is going to die ! And if it’s early from climate change , well , I am really going to miss that last ten years in the nursing home with someone changing my diaper . The fact is a lot more people will have a low quality of life and will be unable to properly look after themselves because they have been raped by the various forms of taxation and out of control government and utility charges than any climate change .
Reminder that since the late 19th century, the goal of our betters has been to encourage potential rivals to stop reproducing and encourage potential slaves and drudges to breed like rabbits.
That’s why they permitted Hitler’s murder of the Six Million and financed the eradication plagues that formerly kept sub-Saharan populations within the limits of the food supply.