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Topic: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12404 on: Today at 09:18:28 AM »
Coal power is ebbing, which I view as a good thing, but a reliable replacement that is economical has to be used, not heavy dependence on variable sources with inadequate backup.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12405 on: Today at 09:21:26 AM »
Coal power is ebbing, which I view as a good thing, but a reliable replacement that is economical has to be used, not heavy dependence on variable sources with inadequate backup.


What's going on in China and India? Asking for a friend.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12406 on: Today at 09:30:30 AM »
What's going on in China and India? Asking for a friend.
From the linked article...

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Populous developing countries like China and India led the charge in adding more renewable energies, Ember reports. Meanwhile, Western societies including the European Union and the United States met some of their increased electricity demand through the use of fossil fuels during this period.

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Wiatros-Motyka said China has been particularly clever in decreasing its reliance on fossil fuels. She noted that such a shift gives countries more autonomy since they can reduce their dependence on energy imports from other nations.

"There has been more investment in infrastructure that facilitates clean growth [in emerging economies] than in many advanced economies," she said.

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China has been the largest driver in the move to renewable energy sources, accounting for 55% of global solar generation growth. The United States' share, by contrast, was just 14%. Renewables might slow as the Trump administration moves to sharply reduce clean-energy development.

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China and other countries have been able to succeed because they foresaw a rising desire for renewable energy and invested heavily in those alternatives.

"China took technologies that were originally developed in the United States back in Bell Labs in the 1950s and figured out how to scale them up, and just relentlessly year after year make them cheaper and cheaper and slightly better performing each time to the point that the cost of solar panels has fallen by well over 90% and the cheapest solar panels in the world are being manufactured in China," Cohan said.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12407 on: Today at 09:33:32 AM »
China appears to be nearing the point of not increasing their CO2 generation further.  India, well, not yet.

In my view, coal is bad on every angle (except cheap power production).  But we can't replace coal with only W&S.  That clearly won't work.  Maybe at some point stored energy solutions become large scale and practicable, maybe.

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« Reply #12408 on: Today at 09:48:02 AM »
From the linked article...
I don't believe that.
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« Reply #12409 on: Today at 10:44:22 AM »
I don't believe that.
Fair enough. It only presents a portion of the picture. Here's the bit they're presenting:




And, of course, the bit they're not:




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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12410 on: Today at 12:19:46 PM »
The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

As predicted, more hand wringing, and still not realistic plan to do something.  I don't consider throwing money at it a plan at all.


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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12411 on: Today at 01:06:08 PM »
Some pretty bad flooding on the East coast from that Nor'easter. New Jersey:





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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #12412 on: Today at 01:20:41 PM »
Some pretty bad flooding on the East coast from that Nor'easter. New Jersey:







That is where my youngest son is right now.

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« Reply #12413 on: Today at 02:42:20 PM »
Is he safe?
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« Reply #12414 on: Today at 03:28:55 PM »
Is he safe?

He better be.  It's what he is training for, and I can't talk to him right now.  He did get a call last Saturday to tell me his 1st duty station will be Ft. Lauderdale. 




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« Reply #12415 on: Today at 03:30:00 PM »
Nice! I have a ton of respect for the Coast Guard, being an Emeritus Captain.
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