Some energy articles that I read the past few weeks, reposting.
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The social costs
of carbon fiasco
Paul Driessen Mar
15, 2021
It takes big
energy to back up little wind and solar
David Wojick Mar
31, 2021
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/icing-the-hype
Climate Insanity:
German Greens, Conservatives Push For 100s Of Wind Turbines In Black Forest!
By P Gosselin on 10. April 2021
https://notrickszone.com/2021/04/10/climate-insanity-german-greens-conservatives-push-for-100s-of-wind-turbines-in-black-forest/
2021 German Coal
Plant “Phaseout” Lasted Only 8 Days…Put Back Online To Stabilize Shaky Grid
By P Gosselin on 13. April 2021
https://notrickszone.com/2021/04/13/2021-german-coal-plant-phaseout-lasted-only-8-days-put-back-online-to-stabilize-shaky-grid/
RE firms urged to
build new power plants by 2023
Danessa Rivera - April 15, 2021 - 12:00am
https://www.philstar.com/business/2021/04/15/2091152/re-firms-urged-build-new-power-plants-2023
China’s Shale Gas
Industry Is Finally Taking Off
By Tatiana Serova - Apr 17, 2021, 10:00 AM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Chinas-Shale-Gas-Industry-Is-Finally-Taking-Off.html
Ramon Ang says
power unit sets $1 billion for ‘game changer’ battery storage facilities
ABS-CBN News Apr
22 2021 11:42 AM
https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/22/21/ramon-ang-san-miguel-1-billion-battery-storage-facilities
My comment: Combined total rated capacity of 1,000 MW, wow. RSA remains a very intelligent businessman. SMC has zero wind solar biomass plants, intermittent expensive subsidy-dependent unstable unreliable non-dispatchable plants, seems that RSA does not believe those climate drama. But there is a law (RA 9513, RE law of 2008) that has coerced all distribution utilities (DUs), electric cooperatives and WESM, that by hook or by hook, they should take those intermittents. So the Ayalas, Lopezes, Leviste, Perez, etc are into those expensive RE but they have no battery. RSA comes to give them battery, which will be a huge business project.
Earth Day 2021, first celebrated April 22, 1970 or 51 years ago. US President Joe Biden hosted the "Leaders Summit on Climate", April 22-23, 2021, attended by 40 other leaders in the world "to save the planet." This photo from vox.com. There is one odd-man-out in this photo. Can you spot it?
... US Presiden Joe Biden, the only leader with no country flag in the background.
“Earth Day” related articles
Herding the big
dogs: Biden takes risks with climate 'summit'
Clashing agendas, egos may cloud gathering
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Monday, April
19, 2021
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/joe-biden-invites-xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-climat/
John Kerry’s
Climate Kowtow
How much will Biden trade away in exchange for empty
promises?
By The Editorial Board
April 19, 2021 7:05 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/john-kerrys-climate-kowtow-11618873552
Earth Day,
Greenpeace and the renewable energy lobby
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr. April 19, 2021 | 6:41 pm
https://www.bworldonline.com/earth-day-greenpeace-and-the-renewable-energy-lobby/
Earth Day
Connections: NASA Investigates Vegetation
Charles Rotter Apr
19, 2021
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/20/earth-day-connections-nasa-investigates-vegetation/
India Is Pushing
For More Coal Capacity
By Charles Kennedy - Apr 19, 2021, 1:30 PM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/India-Is-Pushing-For-More-Coal-Capacity.html
Not an
'existential' threat: Intelligence agencies challenge Biden's climate change
alarmism
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, April 20,
2021
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/20/avril-haines-intel-agencies-challenge-joe-biden-cl/
China, India
Complicate Biden’s Climate Ambitions
Both countries have big and growing appetites for energy
and rely heavily on coal
By Sha Hua in Hong Kong and Phred Dvorak in Tokyo
Updated April 22, 2021 9:44 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-india-complicate-bidens-climate-ambitions-11619116604
My comment: China is going into shale oil-gas fracking while the US under Biden cancels fracking in federal lands. China producing solar for UK and China using slave labor that UK hates. China and India building more coal plants that Biden and UK hate.
Revealed: UK solar projects using panels from firms
linked to Xinjiang forced labour
Investigation finds up to 40% of UK solar farms were
built using panels from leading Chinese companies
Jillian Ambrose and Jasper Jolly Sun 25 Apr 2021 17.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/revealed-uk-solar-projects-using-panels-from-firms-linked-to-xinjiang-forced-labour
Russia jubilant as US democrats start banning fracking in
California
GWPF April 25,
2021
https://www.thegwpf.com/russia-jubilant-as-us-democrats-start-banning-fracking-in-california/
China doubles down
on coal plants abroad despite carbon pledge at homeAFP
AFP / Tue, April 27, 2021 /
06:35 pm
https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2021/04/27/china-doubles-down-on-coal-plants-abroad-despite-carbon-pledge-at-home-.html
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See also:
Energy 139, Immediate impact of Biden policies vs fracking, killing Keystone pipeline, February 09, 2021
Energy 140, Texas blackouts, wind turbines frozen, February 21, 2021
Energy 141, Carbon-methane-nitrogen tax, environmental damage of RE, March 09, 2021.
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