G.E.’s giant machine, which can light up a small town, is stoking a renewable-energy arms race.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.html
13MW, 260m floor to top of turbine, 216m rotor diameter, NYT don’t bother to mention power output is function of cube of rotor diameter eg twice diameter is 8 times power.
GE has deals to supply 276 turbines to what is likely to be the world’s largest wind farm at Dogger Bank off Britain.
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— Read on news.un.org/en/story/2020/12/1080682
By December, the UN was predicting that a record 235 Million people would require humanitarian assistance in 2021, an increase of some 40 per cent on 2020 which is almost entirely a consequence of the pandemic
Conservative think tank The Grattan Institute is saying that gas is finished as a fuel in the global economy.
— Read on ieefa.org/ieefa-australia-beetaloo-is-a-sink-hole-which-the-gas-industry-itself-isnt-even-investing-in/
Environment Victoria | AGL’s dirty gas import terminal: What we learnt from the expert testimony
— Read on environmentvictoria.org.au/2020/12/22/exposing-the-impacts-of-agls-gas-import-terminal/
A Liberal-aligned think tank has called on the Morrison government to consider paying ageing coal plants to close early.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/australia-should-hold-auction-to-hasten-coal-closures-says-conservative-think-tank-65096/
Coalition funding for gas exploration in Northern Territory labelled a costly plan ‘for a climate catastrophe’
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/19/zero-return-government-savaged-over-taxpayer-grants-to-open-up-new-gas-basin-in-australia
Beyond disgraceful! $7.5 million PER WELL for gas mining, $2.5 BILLION for oil refineries, and a proposal to limit boycotts of fossil fuel companies.
#ClimateEmergency
#ExistentialThreat
#FederalICACNow
#BrokenPoliticalSystem
#ExtinctionRebellion
Japan efforts to recover from natural disaster helped by the two-way battery that powers the Nissan Leaf electric car.
— Read on thedriven.io/2020/12/18/power-tool-how-nissan-leaf-e-played-vital-role-in-japans-disaster-recovery/
How about keeping power tools, even medical devices indoors, operational when disaster with loss of grid power
Chinas path to renewable superpower
— Read on www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/news-story/chinas-path-to-renewable-superpower/9b89bf33035a8d7c61eb996041bdd9eb
China romps along, clean and green and renewable, while Australia is dragged back, dirty and brown in fossil fantasy
The UN Secretary General calls for a worldwide state of climate emergency. Meanwhile, the PM is refused the chance to speak at the Climate Ambition Summit.
— Read on au.citizensclimatelobby.org/the-climate-this-week-15-dec-2020/
A review of major clangers in 2020
Greta Thunberg released a video for the summit, calling leaders to account for failing to reverse rising carbon emissions. “We are still speeding in the wrong direction”
11 December, 2020 − Greenhouse gases have fallen during 2020. But that’s no reason for congratulations, in a year of climate drama.
— Read on climatenewsnetwork.net/world-still-warms-in-2020-as-greenhouse-gases-fall/
because it takes decades for warming to settle in proportion to emissions and because particles in emissions block incoming heat(global cooling), if big reductions go down, warming will go up. Scary for all except right wing rump of LNP
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