#energymodernization — Public Fediverse posts
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Nicely comprehensive and concise summary of the state of the art.
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Nicely comprehensive and concise summary of the state of the art.
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"In June 2025 the UK Government announced a £14.2bn investment to support building a new nuclear power station, Sizewell C, on the east coast of England as the latest step in its policy to achieve “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It did so despite unresolved questions about the wisdom of commissioning the construction of Sizewell C's forerunner Hinkley Point C (HPC) in 2016. Two years after making the latter decision the Government of Theresa May decided not to provide financial support for the construction of a tidal lagoon on the coast of South Wales as a technology demonstrator, claiming that HPC offered better value-for-money for consumers. These decisions were widely viewed as connected. This article examines the validity of the cost calculations that formed the basis of these decisions, costings which still underpin the policy of successive UK Governments of favouring nuclear power in the technology mix for transitioning the UK to a “net zero” electricity supply by 2050. It is shown from official documents, reports of publicly funded independent bodies and the scientific literature that their policy of favouring nuclear power is based on misinformation and inconsistent application of their costing methodology. It is further shown that correcting these defects and taking into account essential other costs, decommissioning and safe storage of toxic waste results in tidal lagoons providing significantly better value-for-money for consumers and taxpayers."
#NuclearPower
#EnergyModernization
#IncumbentAdvantagehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421526003344?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"In June 2025 the UK Government announced a £14.2bn investment to support building a new nuclear power station, Sizewell C, on the east coast of England as the latest step in its policy to achieve “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It did so despite unresolved questions about the wisdom of commissioning the construction of Sizewell C's forerunner Hinkley Point C (HPC) in 2016. Two years after making the latter decision the Government of Theresa May decided not to provide financial support for the construction of a tidal lagoon on the coast of South Wales as a technology demonstrator, claiming that HPC offered better value-for-money for consumers. These decisions were widely viewed as connected. This article examines the validity of the cost calculations that formed the basis of these decisions, costings which still underpin the policy of successive UK Governments of favouring nuclear power in the technology mix for transitioning the UK to a “net zero” electricity supply by 2050. It is shown from official documents, reports of publicly funded independent bodies and the scientific literature that their policy of favouring nuclear power is based on misinformation and inconsistent application of their costing methodology. It is further shown that correcting these defects and taking into account essential other costs, decommissioning and safe storage of toxic waste results in tidal lagoons providing significantly better value-for-money for consumers and taxpayers."
#NuclearPower
#EnergyModernization
#IncumbentAdvantagehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421526003344?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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A country collectively too stupid to operate, the sum more ignorant than the parts.
#pv
#photovoltaics
#EnergyModernizationhttps://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county
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A country collectively too stupid to operate, the sum more ignorant than the parts.
#pv
#photovoltaics
#EnergyModernizationhttps://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county
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"All of the wind projects the Trump administration is attempting to stall or kill have gone through extensive permitting and review processes with the Defense Department and other federal agencies."
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"All of the wind projects the Trump administration is attempting to stall or kill have gone through extensive permitting and review processes with the Defense Department and other federal agencies."
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Given the challenges involved in retrofits this would also be an enormouse sink for labor and hence employment. The vector of money would need to change, which of course is why modernization of this kind is opposed by legacy money holes such as firms selling products intended to be burned as rapidly as possible (an ideal situation for any vendor!).
"Individual building-level approaches are needed to understand the full potential of rooftop photovoltaics (PV) at national and regional scale. Here we use the European Digital Building Stock Model R2025, an open-access building-level database, to assess rooftop solar potential for each of the 271 million buildings in the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could reach 2.3 TWp (1,822 GWp residential, 519 GWp non-residential), with an annual output of 2,750 TWh based on current PV technology. This corresponds to approximately 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable scenario for 2050. Already by 2030, over a half of buildings with floor area larger than 2,000 m2 could generate most of remaining capacity for the 2030 target with 355 GWp. Across member states, non-residential rooftops could cover 50% or more of their PV targets, with several exceeding 95%."
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Given the challenges involved in retrofits this would also be an enormouse sink for labor and hence employment. The vector of money would need to change, which of course is why modernization of this kind is opposed by legacy money holes such as firms selling products intended to be burned as rapidly as possible (an ideal situation for any vendor!).
"Individual building-level approaches are needed to understand the full potential of rooftop photovoltaics (PV) at national and regional scale. Here we use the European Digital Building Stock Model R2025, an open-access building-level database, to assess rooftop solar potential for each of the 271 million buildings in the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could reach 2.3 TWp (1,822 GWp residential, 519 GWp non-residential), with an annual output of 2,750 TWh based on current PV technology. This corresponds to approximately 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable scenario for 2050. Already by 2030, over a half of buildings with floor area larger than 2,000 m2 could generate most of remaining capacity for the 2030 target with 355 GWp. Across member states, non-residential rooftops could cover 50% or more of their PV targets, with several exceeding 95%."
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"While JLR did not say what specific vulnerabilities it sees in armoured electric vehicles, key engineering roadblocks are likely to include the extra weight from the battery cells, range issues and the time needed to recharge."
Because after being chased for a couple of hundred kilometers by terrorists and with no response from the rest of the security apparatus, recharging won't be respected by the malefactors, who otherwise would gladly stand by during refueling.
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"While JLR did not say what specific vulnerabilities it sees in armoured electric vehicles, key engineering roadblocks are likely to include the extra weight from the battery cells, range issues and the time needed to recharge."
Because after being chased for a couple of hundred kilometers by terrorists and with no response from the rest of the security apparatus, recharging won't be respected by the malefactors, who otherwise would gladly stand by during refueling.
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"This paper focuses on the specific role of installers, a category of often overlooked diffusion intermediaries doing the actual implementation of energy transitions. We adopt an ecosystems perspective and aim to provide new knowledge on the installers' role in energy transitions, possible changes in this role, and the challenges installers face. Based on evidence from case studies in Gothenburg and Rotterdam, we first show how installers make or break energy transitions. They differ from other intermediaries in their long-term trust relations with customers, their deep contextual knowledge, and involvement in post-technology deployment. We unveil new nuances regarding downstream (installers deploy strategies to include budget-constrained customers in energy transitions) and upstream actors (installers face manufacturers' lock-ins and are trained by wholesalers and manufacturers). Secondly, we show challenges installers face caused by regulatory, market and technological dynamics in transitions, and identify new roles for them as IT-specialists, manufacturers and holistic advisors."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003718?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"This paper focuses on the specific role of installers, a category of often overlooked diffusion intermediaries doing the actual implementation of energy transitions. We adopt an ecosystems perspective and aim to provide new knowledge on the installers' role in energy transitions, possible changes in this role, and the challenges installers face. Based on evidence from case studies in Gothenburg and Rotterdam, we first show how installers make or break energy transitions. They differ from other intermediaries in their long-term trust relations with customers, their deep contextual knowledge, and involvement in post-technology deployment. We unveil new nuances regarding downstream (installers deploy strategies to include budget-constrained customers in energy transitions) and upstream actors (installers face manufacturers' lock-ins and are trained by wholesalers and manufacturers). Secondly, we show challenges installers face caused by regulatory, market and technological dynamics in transitions, and identify new roles for them as IT-specialists, manufacturers and holistic advisors."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003718?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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If one was working for the fossil fuel industry, this is exactly the right move so as to paralyze financing of #EnergyModernization.
Parsimony suggests this as the most likely reason for the halt.
But why did the narcissist sell himself and sell us out so cheaply? The price is so low that it beggars belief.
Anyway, every day of delay is another day to monetize a stale resource.
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If one was working for the fossil fuel industry, this is exactly the right move so as to paralyze financing of #EnergyModernization.
Parsimony suggests this as the most likely reason for the halt.
But why did the narcissist sell himself and sell us out so cheaply? The price is so low that it beggars belief.
Anyway, every day of delay is another day to monetize a stale resource.
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"I addresses the following empirical puzzle – how can we explain the IRA’s environmentally contradictory combination of decarbonization efforts alongside further embedding fossil fuel production? I argue that this ‘one step forward, two steps back’ approach to energy transition emerged from state officials’ reactivation of a Hobbesian–Hamiltonian nexus between sovereignty, security, and prosperity in response to changing global conditions. Neo-Hamiltonian discourse strategically enfolded energy policy with broader goals of industrial modernization, prosperity, and national security, subordinating decarbonization within hybrid logics. Domestic decarbonization is balanced with maintenance of existing interdependencies between an expanded American shale oil and gas sector, economic growth, and the geopolitical leverage of American energy exports. This strategy is fundamentally unstable."
#EnergyModernization
#decarbonization
#EnergyPoliticshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2025.2540683?af=R#abstract
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"I addresses the following empirical puzzle – how can we explain the IRA’s environmentally contradictory combination of decarbonization efforts alongside further embedding fossil fuel production? I argue that this ‘one step forward, two steps back’ approach to energy transition emerged from state officials’ reactivation of a Hobbesian–Hamiltonian nexus between sovereignty, security, and prosperity in response to changing global conditions. Neo-Hamiltonian discourse strategically enfolded energy policy with broader goals of industrial modernization, prosperity, and national security, subordinating decarbonization within hybrid logics. Domestic decarbonization is balanced with maintenance of existing interdependencies between an expanded American shale oil and gas sector, economic growth, and the geopolitical leverage of American energy exports. This strategy is fundamentally unstable."
#EnergyModernization
#decarbonization
#EnergyPoliticshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2025.2540683?af=R#abstract
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“They say comparison is the thief of joy. That’s especially true if you suck and you compare yourself to people who are awesome – and since Elon sucks like it’s his job, I’m thieving a ton of joy by comparing the 140-odd number of Tesla Semi trucks out there to Volvo’s much larger, less-sucky 5,000-plus number."
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“They say comparison is the thief of joy. That’s especially true if you suck and you compare yourself to people who are awesome – and since Elon sucks like it’s his job, I’m thieving a ton of joy by comparing the 140-odd number of Tesla Semi trucks out there to Volvo’s much larger, less-sucky 5,000-plus number."
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"Too much information" for the fossil fuel industry to tolerate, so it purchased vanishment.
In a strange way this is diagnostic of the recent success of #EnergyModernization.
Note how the gloves are coming off as the threat to the industry becomes serious. The industry has only been dabbling in interference until now. Its resources have not even been scratched at the atom-thick level in pursuit of paralysis, at this point. The current havoc was bought for a fraction of wealth completely invisible at the bottom line.
Only when the entire resource has been monetized will we be allowed more progress.
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"Too much information" for the fossil fuel industry to tolerate, so it purchased vanishment.
In a strange way this is diagnostic of the recent success of #EnergyModernization.
Note how the gloves are coming off as the threat to the industry becomes serious. The industry has only been dabbling in interference until now. Its resources have not even been scratched at the atom-thick level in pursuit of paralysis, at this point. The current havoc was bought for a fraction of wealth completely invisible at the bottom line.
Only when the entire resource has been monetized will we be allowed more progress.
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Bit of a vicious circle in play, according to this.
"Recent research found cross-sectional evidence that conspiracy belief is an important predictor of wind farm opposition. The current work extends this finding and sheds light on the temporal relationship between these variables. A preregistered, three-wave study among German adults (N = 297) using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel analyses found support for our hypothesis that an increase in conspiracy mentality (i.e., the general propensity to believe conspiracy theories) predicts more negative attitudes towards wind farms close to one's hometown four months later. We also found evidence for the opposite direction, namely that an increase in negative attitudes predicts higher conspiracy mentality four months later. Thus, conspiracy belief and wind farm opposition seem to mutually reinforce each other."
(With small N scrupulous methodological process becomes extra important-- but disagreement on that basis will need some effort, not "oh, the sample is so small!")
#ConspiracyIdeation
#EnergyModernization
#WindTurbineshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001033?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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Bit of a vicious circle in play, according to this.
"Recent research found cross-sectional evidence that conspiracy belief is an important predictor of wind farm opposition. The current work extends this finding and sheds light on the temporal relationship between these variables. A preregistered, three-wave study among German adults (N = 297) using Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel analyses found support for our hypothesis that an increase in conspiracy mentality (i.e., the general propensity to believe conspiracy theories) predicts more negative attitudes towards wind farms close to one's hometown four months later. We also found evidence for the opposite direction, namely that an increase in negative attitudes predicts higher conspiracy mentality four months later. Thus, conspiracy belief and wind farm opposition seem to mutually reinforce each other."
(With small N scrupulous methodological process becomes extra important-- but disagreement on that basis will need some effort, not "oh, the sample is so small!")
#ConspiracyIdeation
#EnergyModernization
#WindTurbineshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494425001033?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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Here is #27 of our 33-week serial presentation of #ClimateSolutionsMythDebunkings. These were researched and authored at Columbia University School of Law's Sabin Center For Climate Change Law. In collaboration with Sabin, we adapted the original report into individually accessible corrections, handy for sharing etc.
Very few people experience depressed property values due to wind turbines. As the authors allude, there are plenty of other collocations capable of depressing property values. This juxtaposition is spotlighted in our attention for reasons quite apart from the good of homeowners.
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Here is #27 of our 33-week serial presentation of #ClimateSolutionsMythDebunkings. These were researched and authored at Columbia University School of Law's Sabin Center For Climate Change Law. In collaboration with Sabin, we adapted the original report into individually accessible corrections, handy for sharing etc.
Very few people experience depressed property values due to wind turbines. As the authors allude, there are plenty of other collocations capable of depressing property values. This juxtaposition is spotlighted in our attention for reasons quite apart from the good of homeowners.
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Oops, #EnergyModernization is now forbidden.
"...these results highlight the need for a deeper understanding of the multifaceted outcomes of agricultural and solar PV co-location decisions...
This work was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) INFEWS grant number 2018-67003-27406. We credit additional support from the USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive grant number 2021-68012-35923..."
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Oops, #EnergyModernization is now forbidden.
"...these results highlight the need for a deeper understanding of the multifaceted outcomes of agricultural and solar PV co-location decisions...
This work was supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) INFEWS grant number 2018-67003-27406. We credit additional support from the USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive grant number 2021-68012-35923..."
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"But batteries are unreliable and dealing with them is a hassle."
Here's a battery for garden equipment that has been running a mower since 2012 and has no noticeable degradation.
No stink, no racket, no oil changes, no fouled plugs, no air filter cleaning, no struggle with gummed-up carb for first start of the year.
Obviously far less hassle.
"It just works."
(Don't run 'em down below ~25% and longevity becomes very pleasing.)
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"But batteries are unreliable and dealing with them is a hassle."
Here's a battery for garden equipment that has been running a mower since 2012 and has no noticeable degradation.
No stink, no racket, no oil changes, no fouled plugs, no air filter cleaning, no struggle with gummed-up carb for first start of the year.
Obviously far less hassle.
"It just works."
(Don't run 'em down below ~25% and longevity becomes very pleasing.)
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Crafty.
Send the loudest possible signal to investors considering #EnergyModernization projects.
"See what we just did? You have -zero- certainty and -massive- risk, even for a proven technology."
#FossilFuel incumbents bought this for chump change.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/17/trump-admin-ny-offshore-wind-mid-build/
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Crafty.
Send the loudest possible signal to investors considering #EnergyModernization projects.
"See what we just did? You have -zero- certainty and -massive- risk, even for a proven technology."
#FossilFuel incumbents bought this for chump change.
https://electrek.co/2025/04/17/trump-admin-ny-offshore-wind-mid-build/
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CW: Making America Stupider: Wind Edition
"... due to Trump’s anti-wind policy and economic uncertainty, this five-year outlook is 40% less than a previous total of 75.8 GW. Growth will happen, but it’s going to be slower.
The main reason is Trump’s flourish of his Sharpie on executive orders that include “temporary” withdrawal of offshore wind leasing areas and putting a stop to onshore wind on federal lands."
https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/the-us-wind-industrys-5-year-outlook-is-now-a-total-roller-coaster/
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CW: Making America Stupider: Wind Edition
"... due to Trump’s anti-wind policy and economic uncertainty, this five-year outlook is 40% less than a previous total of 75.8 GW. Growth will happen, but it’s going to be slower.
The main reason is Trump’s flourish of his Sharpie on executive orders that include “temporary” withdrawal of offshore wind leasing areas and putting a stop to onshore wind on federal lands."
https://electrek.co/2025/04/08/the-us-wind-industrys-5-year-outlook-is-now-a-total-roller-coaster/
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CW: Paltry fossil fuel investment pays off
#EnergyModernization frozen in its tracks for only about $75M in "campaign donations" (payment for services rendered), extending the success of about $2T/year in revenue.
This sort of incompetence is how casinos are made bankrupt.
These people can't even do corruption without screwing it up.
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CW: Paltry fossil fuel investment pays off
#EnergyModernization frozen in its tracks for only about $75M in "campaign donations" (payment for services rendered), extending the success of about $2T/year in revenue.
This sort of incompetence is how casinos are made bankrupt.
These people can't even do corruption without screwing it up.
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Broad acceptance of human-caused #ClimateChange results in changing tactics by anachronistic industries keen to continue monetizing outmoded products.
#EnergyModernization is largely converged on two sources of upgraded power: wind and solar. Wind turbines seem to have won the race for "most patently ridiculous misinformation" spun up by talented authors of bunk, fodder for friction in town hall meetings and other policy venues.
Here's one such #ClimateSolutionsMyth.
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Broad acceptance of human-caused #ClimateChange results in changing tactics by anachronistic industries keen to continue monetizing outmoded products.
#EnergyModernization is largely converged on two sources of upgraded power: wind and solar. Wind turbines seem to have won the race for "most patently ridiculous misinformation" spun up by talented authors of bunk, fodder for friction in town hall meetings and other policy venues.
Here's one such #ClimateSolutionsMyth.
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"Results show that energy autarky is a context-dependent concept and that local community members attribute different connotations to it, some of which overlap. Additionally, challenges to autarky in local energy systems follow from local contextual conditions, leading to varying degrees to which communities achieve or even pursue autarky."
#EnergyAutarky
#EnergyModernizationhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625000015?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"Results show that energy autarky is a context-dependent concept and that local community members attribute different connotations to it, some of which overlap. Additionally, challenges to autarky in local energy systems follow from local contextual conditions, leading to varying degrees to which communities achieve or even pursue autarky."
#EnergyAutarky
#EnergyModernizationhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625000015?dgcid=rss_sd_all
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"Flooding the zone" means drowning #ClimateProgress, among other victims.
Situational awareness is nasty in an ugly environment but people interested in maintaining decent Earth habitability of the type we'd all prefer had best keep up with events.
This week's Skeptical Science #ClimateChange news roundup includes a broad survey of the new US administration's concerted effort to reverse #EnergyModernization, maintain cash flow for anachronistic legacy industries.
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"Flooding the zone" means drowning #ClimateProgress, among other victims.
Situational awareness is nasty in an ugly environment but people interested in maintaining decent Earth habitability of the type we'd all prefer had best keep up with events.
This week's Skeptical Science #ClimateChange news roundup includes a broad survey of the new US administration's concerted effort to reverse #EnergyModernization, maintain cash flow for anachronistic legacy industries.
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Our last blast for 2024 was this collaborative output with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, a #RenewableEnergyMythDebunking.
One of 33 compact but solidly sourced treatments authored by Sabin and adapted for easy individual access via Skeptical Science.
This particular set of currently accurate facts is highly vulnerable to changing circumstances. Will it need revising over the next few years? We shall see.
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Our last blast for 2024 was this collaborative output with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, a #RenewableEnergyMythDebunking.
One of 33 compact but solidly sourced treatments authored by Sabin and adapted for easy individual access via Skeptical Science.
This particular set of currently accurate facts is highly vulnerable to changing circumstances. Will it need revising over the next few years? We shall see.
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We collaborated with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw to adapt their excellent rebuttals to 33 #RenewableEnergyMyths for easy granular access outside of the original single report, which was published as a PDF.
Commencing Nov. 5 we've been highlighting one of these #FossilFuelPropaganda #Debunkings per week. Here's the last for 2024. Stay tuned for more in 2025!
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We collaborated with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw to adapt their excellent rebuttals to 33 #RenewableEnergyMyths for easy granular access outside of the original single report, which was published as a PDF.
Commencing Nov. 5 we've been highlighting one of these #FossilFuelPropaganda #Debunkings per week. Here's the last for 2024. Stay tuned for more in 2025!
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"In this paper, we optimize capacity layouts for a European energy system under net-zero CO2 emissions for 62 different weather years... we... optimize their operation in every other weather year to assess resource adequacy ... Our analysis shows a variation of ± 10% in total system costs across weather years. Layouts designed for years with compound weather events prove more robust, achieving resource adequacy of 99.9%..."
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"In this paper, we optimize capacity layouts for a European energy system under net-zero CO2 emissions for 62 different weather years... we... optimize their operation in every other weather year to assess resource adequacy ... Our analysis shows a variation of ± 10% in total system costs across weather years. Layouts designed for years with compound weather events prove more robust, achieving resource adequacy of 99.9%..."
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Some smart systems thinking.
In order to cherrypick and exploit this research for propaganda purposes, opponents of #EnergyModernization will have to acknowledge high skill on the part of #ClimateModels. Nice dilemma, although logical integrity has never been a strength in the extreme greed demographic.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109416?af=R
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Some smart systems thinking.
In order to cherrypick and exploit this research for propaganda purposes, opponents of #EnergyModernization will have to acknowledge high skill on the part of #ClimateModels. Nice dilemma, although logical integrity has never been a strength in the extreme greed demographic.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109416?af=R
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Nice.
"The hydrogen production cost of US$2.46/kgH2 aligns with the green hydrogen cost target set by the European Commission for the coming decade."
And a bit (just a dopant) of molybdenum is the most exotic material used in this process. Thanks to steel production we're all good on obtaining Mo.
One of these days we'll be revolutionized with a pleasing #EnergyModernization step change.
Too bad #PNAS mindlessly emulates for-profit; article itself is obfuscated.
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Nice.
"The hydrogen production cost of US$2.46/kgH2 aligns with the green hydrogen cost target set by the European Commission for the coming decade."
And a bit (just a dopant) of molybdenum is the most exotic material used in this process. Thanks to steel production we're all good on obtaining Mo.
One of these days we'll be revolutionized with a pleasing #EnergyModernization step change.
Too bad #PNAS mindlessly emulates for-profit; article itself is obfuscated.
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Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Titanic and malign activist inertia vs. #EnergyModernization-- in a cage match. Wowzers.
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Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Titanic and malign activist inertia vs. #EnergyModernization-- in a cage match. Wowzers.
