My 5+pm return MAS flight to Manila (arrival should have been 9:20pm) on Tuesday was cancelled, should be due to additional APEC security measures in Manila. I needed to go back home, so IDEAS got a new ticket for me, KL-SG-Mla via SG Air. Left KL Tuesday at 9:45pm, left SG at 12:20am, Manila by 4:30am.
So, I was able to see KL and suburbs at night from the air as I took the window seat. Again, like what I saw in Thailand last month when I arrived Bangkok at midnight (see Thailand's bright nights and nat gas power), Malaysia has a wide, huge area of well-lighted roads, houses and buildings.
This photo I got from the web, not from my camera. It shows KL center and suburbs. The dark areas are the many urban forest in KL.
The bright and well-lighted areas go beyond KL and suburbs. Stretched to other urban centers further down, to Johor and other cities bordering with Singapore.
Below, Singapore at night; again, this photo I got from the web, not from my camera. It simply captures the well-lighted city-state, from the shorelines to other sides.
I am glad that like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore do not believe in mandatory switch to unreliable, intermittent wind and solar power made "cheaper" only because of various subsidies. They rely on the old, dependable coal and natural gas, for their electricity needs.
In 2012, these countries and economies were dependent on the following energy sources:
Thailand: 20% coal + 70.3% nat gas + 1.5% oil = 91.8% fossil fuel.
Malaysia: 41.5% coal + 46.6% nat gas + 4.5% oil = 92.6% fossil fuel.
Singapore: 84.3% nat gas + 13% oil = 95.3% fossil fuel.
Indonesia: 48.7% coal + 23.2% nat gas + 16.7% oil = 88.6% fossil fuel.
Vietnam: 17.9% coal + 35.8% nat gas + 2.7% oil = 56.4% fossil fuel.
Philippines: 38.8% coal + 26.9% nat gas + 5.8% oil = 71.5% fossil fuel.
Hong Kong: 70.3% coal + 27.3% nat gas + 2.1% oil = 99.7% fossil fuel.
S. Korea: 44.8% coal + 20.9% nat gas + 4.0% oil = 69.7% fossil fuel.
China: 75.8% coal + 1.8% nat gas and oil = 77.6% fossil fuel.
So when people say they dislike or hate fossil fuels yet also dislike or hate frequent brownouts and expensive electricity, they proudly and openly exhibit their hypocrisy and double talk.
In one fb thread of a friend, he commented that during the APEC meetings, US President Obama posed climate change (CC) as a challenge that government and business leaders must take action.
I commented that the main reason why we have electricity in M.Manila for the APEC and similar events, the reason why many people can do fb and attack "man-made" CC, is because of those power plants that run on fossil fuels. Frequent brownouts and candles are NOT nice to "save the planet." Watch more fires because of more candles. Watch more crimes and road accidents because of dark streets.
The anti-fossil fuel movement is notorious for hypocrisy
and double talk. The Paris meeting in less than two weeks will have thousands of petroleum-bashing
planet saviours who reach Paris via fossil fuel-fed planes and cars.
CC is natural, it is nature-made,
not man-made. It is cyclical, warming-cooling-warming-cooling, endless cycle,
not "unprecedented". CC is true, it happened in the past even if
humans did not even ride a bicycle or invented shoes. It is happening now, and it
will happen in the future.
The Pope, ahh, when he came to Manila, his plane was
using water, or it was being towed by hundreds of witches on flying brooms or
carpets.
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See also:
Energy 45, Thailand's bright nights and nat gas power, October 19, 2015
Energy 46, Dominance of coal power worldwide, October 31, 2015
Energy 47, Low capacity factor of wind, solar and biomass plants, November 04, 2015
Energy 48, US energy subsidies and global energy consumption, November 06, 2015
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