The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
And now the climate will change and it will get cold down under.
– South Australia Demolishes their Last Coal Power Station:
While Federal politicians bicker, South Australia, the world’s renewable crash test dummy, has wasted no time demolishing their last viable coal power station, to lock in their pursuit of an energy free future.
Senate inquiry sparks ideological fight over Australia’s energy supply and climate change
Read moreSouth Australia Demolishes their Last Coal Power Station
– Hazelwood Countdown: 53 years old and making more electricity than Australia’s entire wind industry:
One old coal plant makes more electricity than all the wind farms
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As of January 2016, the report’s authors found, there were nearly 338 gigawatts of coal power capacity under construction worldwide and another 1,085 gigawatts of capacity in various phases of permitting or planning. This is the equivalent of 1,500 large coal plants
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The ‘Energiewende’ (transition to green energies) risks leading to a complete meltdown of Germany’s power generation sector.
The latest news is that German electricity giant Eon expects to post a massive 12.4 billion euro loss for the year 2016, NTV news site writes here. Careful not to link the loss to Germany’s failing renewable energy bid, NTV blames it on Eon subsidiary Uniper and its write-downs for “spun-off nuclear power plant business” and the “strongly fallen wholesale power prices“.
Eon share prices plummeted from €7.57 a share earlier this weak to €6.98 by early Thursday morning, before clawing back up to €7.15 in Friday trading.
– Green Energy Is Causing Power Shortages In Europe During An Awful Winter
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“Green Energy Is Causing Power Shortages In Europe During An Awful Winter
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/09/green-energy-is-causing-power-shortages-in-europe-during-an-awful-winter/#ixzz4YVwJZZDO
Green energy subsidies and mandates have greatly increased the price of electricity throughout Germany, especially, which has some of the continent’s highest power prices. The German government has mandated that the nuclear reactors be replaced with wind or solar power, but the estimated cost of doing so is over $1.1 trillion.http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.505850.de/15-22-1.pdf
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I can translate it, but I have no time.
Sorry about that.
Google translation: HERE
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– Global coal power: capacity keeps going up, utilisation goes down:
While the amount of electricity generated from coal has declined for two years in a row and utilisation rates of coal power plants have been going down, energy companies continue to build new coal-fired generating plants at a rapid pace. Worldwide the equivalent of 1500 coal plants is under construction or in various stages of planning, Karel Beckmann writes.
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– In 2016, Solar Employed More People in Electricity Generation Than Gas, Coal, & Oil COMBINED:
A new U.S. Energy and Employment Report is providing yet another indication that our energy paradigm is rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels. The most promise for jobs lies in clean energy, with solar jobs in particular rising at a tremendous rate.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s second annual report found that, in 2016, solar employment was almost double that of fossil fuel employment in the Electric Power Generation sector.
“Proportionally, solar employment accounts for the largest share of workers in the Electric Power Generation sector. This is largely due to the construction related to the significant buildout of new solar generation capacity. Solar technologies, both photovoltaic and concentrating, employ almost 374,000 workers, or 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation workforce. This is followed by fossil fuel generation employment, which accounts for 22 percent of total Electric Power Generation employment and supports 187,117 workers across coal, oil, and natural gas generation technologies.
Rising employment in solar, wind, and natural gas coincides with the shift in energy generation by source, especially given recent large-scale distributed and utility-scale solar capacity additions.”
The total number of jobs in the Traditional Energy and Efficiency sectors was 6.4 million for 2016, which includes: 1) electric power generation and fuels, 2) transmission, distribution and storage, 3) energy efficiency, and 4) motor vehicles.
– MIT Study Shows Wind Power Can NEVER Compete with Conventional Sources:
In their sillier moments, the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers pitch the line that their pointless product is not only getting cheaper all the time, but go so far as to claim that wind power is already cheaper than gas and coal-fired power. Risible PR antics aside, the wind industry has always had a troubled relationship with the facts.
Now, coming to their aid in that regard is a study pulled together by the heavy-hitters hailing from the hallowed halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
When pressed on the facts, the wind-cultist resorts to personal attacks on their challenger’s academic cred. Up against the best and brightest that America has to offer, STT is not so sure that strategy will offer any hope to the wind industry’s already panicked spin kings in resisting the bleeding obvious.
MIT: Green Energy Can’t Work Unless You Tax Everything
The Daily Caller
Andrew Follett
25 February 2016Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have confirmed what many in the energy world already knew: Without government support or high taxes, green energy will never be able to compete with conventional, more reliable power plants.
Read moreMIT Study Shows Wind Power Can NEVER Compete with Conventional Sources
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– Trump Formally Announces Choice Of Bilderberger Rick Perry As Energy Secretary
– How Texas Became A Leader In Wind Power Under Climate Change Denier Rick Perry:
AUSTIN, Texas — On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced Rick Perry, the avowed climate change denier and former governor of Texas, is headed to the White House as the president-elect’s pick to head the Department of Energy.
While Perry actually helped turn Texas into a leader in wind power generation, the name of the department he’s been tapped to head eluded the governor in a now infamous incident at a 2011 Republican presidential debate during the first of his two unsuccessful bids for president.
Read moreHow Texas Became A Leader In Wind Power Under Climate Change Denier Rick Perry
- The closure of Hazelwood coal-fired power station will increase energy bill costs
- The end of the Victoria station will add $78 a year to household energy bills
- South Australia will be hit the hardest as of March with a $150 increase a year
- Wholesale prices will rise 36 percent after the power generator is shutdown
The closure of Victoria’s Hazelwood coal-fired power station will add $78 a year to energy bills around the country, new analysis shows.
South Australians will be hit the hardest, with $150 a year set to added onto household bills.
Victorians will get an extra $99, while Queenslanders will face an extra $28, thanks to the upcoming closure of Australia’s cheapest power generator.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
– ‘Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy:
For several decades now, scientists from around the world have been pursuing a ridiculously ambitious goal: They hope to develop a nuclear fusion reactor that would generate energy in the same manner as the sun and other stars, but down here on Earth.
Incorporated into terrestrial power plants, this “star in a jar” technology would essentially provide Earth with limitless clean energy, forever. And according to new reports out of Europe this week, we just took another big step toward making it happen.
In a study published in the latest edition of the journal Nature Communications, researchers confirmed that Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy device is on track and working as planned. The space-age system, known as a stellerator, generated its first batch of hydrogen plasma when it was first fired up earlier this year. The new tests basically give scientists the green light to proceed to the next stage of the process.
It works like this: Unlike a traditional fission reactor, which splits atoms of heavy elements to generate energy, a fusion reactor works by fusing the nuclei of lighter atoms into heavier atoms. The process releases massive amounts of energy and produces no radioactive waste. The “fuel” used in a fusion reactor is simple hydrogen, which can be extracted from water.
Read more‘Star in a Jar’ Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy
– Modern alchemy: Russian scientists discover how to extract gold from coal:
Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Far East branch say they are building a facility to make gold out of coal.Although the science is no fairy tale, to the dismay of business owners, the process is not as productive as they might hope – burning a ton of coal yields one gram of gold, tops.
At present, the scientists are setting the bar even lower, expecting a yield of 0.5 grams, or 1,500 rubles, per ton.
Read moreModern alchemy: Russian scientists discover how to extract gold from coal
– BP: Indonesia’s Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010:
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova – According to BP, Indonesia’s coal consumption has doubled since 2010, promoting coal to be the largest source of Indonesian energy.
Indonesia’s coal consumption remains high: BP
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The BP Statistical Review 2016 revealed on Wednesday that Indonesia’s coal consumption had doubled since 2010. Last year, coal became the country’s dominant source of fuel, accounting for 41 percent of total energy consumption.
Read moreBP: Indonesia’s Coal Consumption has Doubled Since 2010
As if burning cars were not enough.
Waiting for the first Tesla solar powered house to burn to the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRqSkR4ENAg
During a press event at Universal Studios in L.A., Elon Musk announces that Tesla will build and sell its own line of solar panels with integrated batteries. Coupled with the also unveiled PowerWall 2, it will allow residential homeowners to replace their entire roof with solar panels, making it much simpler for homes to be entirely powered by solar power.
Overview:
00:00. Why solar
04:02. PowerWall 2 introduction
06:40. Solar roof introduction
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– India to more than double coal mining by 2020:
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India will become the world’s number 2 miner of coal by 2020, overtaking the US. There are plans to ramp up from mining 634 million tons to 1.5 billion metric tons by 2020. That’s only 3 years away. China’s total coal use doesn’t even fit on this graph. As best as anyone can guess, China uses 3.7 billion ton each year.
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– Alabama, Tennessee, & Georgia Declare States Of Emergency As Gas Shortages Loom After Pipeline Leak:
A gasoline pipeline spill is currently unfolding in the South. The leak has prompted Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to declare states of emergency… “You’re going to see some places without gasoline… It’s like a mini-hurricane.”
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