An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world compiled by Roger Andrews:
This week’s feature story exposes the mess Germany’s Energiewende has become, and in the follow-up story how it’s torpedoing Europe’s carbon emissions goals. Coming after we have the Trump-OPEC war of words; Saudi Arabia abandons its $200 billion solar project; Shell’s $12 billion Canadian LNG project; the world’s “coal binge”; Australia’s Liddell coal plant to close; the Belgian reactor shutdown; UK SMR companies ask for billions in government support; the EU to cut vehicle emissions, Denmark to ban petrol and diesel vehicles; power-to-gas energy storage in UK; wind turbines cause warming; Elon Musk defies the SEC and how California Gov. Jerry Brown will make the sun shine at night.
Denmark is going all in on EV’s eh…?? well when your country is barely 300 miles border to border, I guess it could work…in a nation with TEMPERATE Overall Weather, but where oh where will you get the EXTRA electricity Needed to charge up some ~3-4 Million EV’s…??
A country with ZERO Nuclear/Hydro & little Fossil Fuel Electrical Generation preferring to Rely on Wind Power & Bio gen …eh.?? One wonders what the source is of their Base Load Power..?? Your Neighbours..?
Good luck on that…as our planet goes into a cooling period.
MIT Technology Review: Wide-scale US wind power could cause significant warming
“””The study found that if wind power supplied all US electricity demands, it would warm the surface of the continental United States by 0.24 ˚C. That could significantly exceed the reduction in US warming achieved by decarbonizing the nation’s electricity sector this century, which would be around 0.1 ˚C. “”””
Somehow I don’t think that heretics resorting to science can stop the selling of faith based indulgences and the erecting of monuments to GAIA.