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Missing Mile on the Cotswold canals, a stretch that was more or less obliterated when the M5 was built. Motorists on the A419 will see narrowboats crossing the middle of a roundabout
“To step down from some busy thoroughfare on to the quiet towpath of a canal, even in the heart of a town, is to step backward a hundred years or more and to see things in a different, and perhaps more balanced, perspective.” A very different world.

TheGuardian

How can yet another new dinosaur coal mine be even considered for taxpayer subsidy?

The Guardian

“We calculate that to get the same amount of mobility from gasoline as from new renewables in tandem with EVs over the next 25 years would cost 6.2x-7x more,”

“EVs convert about 59%-62% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels. Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17%-21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.”

The BNP Paribas report calculates that, for oil to be competitive with renewables and EVs, the industry would need to be able to extract oil at a cost of $9-10 per barrel. In fact, most of the oil industry’s currently planned investments are based on a price of $60 per barrel.

ChargedEVs

A truly rapturous review, looking forward to living happily ever after as EVs displace dreaded oil burners.

The Driven

Wonderful news in this story. What a good job that Minister Anus Taylor is AWOL flogging baseload coal to India but look out for a tantrum when he returns.

RenewEconomy

…many in the South Pacific fear they will soon lose their countries. In that case, Australia will be one of the countries in the region that people will be likely looking to resettle in.

Planning for that eventuality, whilst also reducing emissions now, could help make that transition easier and more equitable.

ABC

…loss of polar and antarctic ice is frightening. Iceland held a funeral ceremony last week for a glacier that has totally melted and disappeared. Hundreds more are melting.

How much longer?

TheHill

And now protest attention to GHD; also their bank finance arrangements with Westpac and HSBC. Adani says all is going ahead but don’t you feel sorry for workers as “independent contractors” with arrears that so rarely get paid?

TheGuardian

Even larger newer coal fired stations can’t compete, closing earlier than ever.

InterestingEngineering

Comprehensive review shenanigans by Gautam Adani to drastically increase emissions when it’s now desperate for peak to arrive by end 2020.

“Throw enough subsidies and anything can be viable,” said Tim Buckley, an analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. “If they did not have special treatment back in India they wouldn’t be able to use expensive Australian sourced coal viably.”

EconomicTimesIndia