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By P Gosselin on 25. November 2022
China continues to barrel ahead with the new construction, expansion of coal fired power plants In Germany, while radical groups of climate-crazies like Extinction Rebellion and Last Generation are gluing themselves to road and airport tarmac surfaces to rescue the planet from the myth that is the climate catastrophe, China is planning to double the […]
Posted in Activism, Alternative Energy, Climate Politics, Pollution |
By P Gosselin on 23. January 2022
According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Coal 2021 report, coal-fired electricity generation reached an all-time high in 2021, increasing a whopping 9% in 2021. Chart source: IEA The increase was driven by the rapid economic recovery. Globally, a total of 10,350 terawatt-hours of electricity was generated from coal. Even worse in terms of the […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 27. May 2021
There has been a sustained global-scale effort to reduce coal power capacity in recent years. Meanwhile, China’s government has been busy loosening restrictions on coal plant construction to power its post-pandemic economy. In 2020, China built over three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined – with […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Emissions |
By P Gosselin on 13. March 2021
German energy expert Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt writes at Die kalte Sonne that “developing country” China is pulling the wool over the world’s eyes as it continues to rapidly expand its coal power. UN winks it through. How relevant is our [German] coal phase-out worldwide? While Germany says goodbye to coal-fired power plants, the global picture […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 19. December 2019
Today, 30% of the globe’s CO2 emissions come from China. In 10 years, China’s emissions alone will match the rest of world’s emissions combined. China continues to build hundreds of coal plants today. So why are the rest of us spending $600 billion every year on CO2 emissions mitigation? China overtook the United States as […]
Posted in Activism, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 18. December 2021
Despite all the billions invested in green energies, they haven’t been able to prove themselves as a reliable source of electricity. Wind and sun are just too volatile, and inefficient. So it’s little surprise that the International Energy Agency (IEA) reports that the amount of electricity generated worldwide from coal is surging towards a new […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG |
By Kenneth Richard on 29. October 2018
The Paris Paradox: Sign the Agreement, Increase Emissions Reject the Agreement, Reduce Emissions China: Emissions Reduction Symbolism Over Substance A little over a year ago, China was hailed as a country that was “stepping up” to combat climate change. After all, the country had agreed to sign on to the Paris climate accord and to […]
Posted in CO2 and GHG, Emissions, Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 6. October 2018
The online German business daily Handelsblatt here writes that although Germany is pressing ahead to eliminate coal as a primary source of energy, the country ignores the fact that world is still very much in love with the plentiful and reliable fossil fuel source of energy. Coal phaseout nowhere near in sight And since Germany […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 12. June 2018
Yesterday German energy expert and scientist Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt commented at his monthly column at Die kalte Sonne site here on solar activity, CO2 and coal power in Germany. Photo: Fritz Vahrenholt, source: Die kalte Sonne Sun factor grossly underestimated Lately the sun’s activity has been very quiet as the star at the center of our […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Climate Politics |
By Kenneth Richard on 11. December 2017
Electric Vehicle Emissions 27-50% Greater Than Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles Image: Qiao et al., 2017 Sales of electric vehicles (EV) in China have exploded in recent years. According to the New York Times (October, 2017), between 2014 and 2017, annual EV purchases by China’s citizens more than doubled, from 145,000 in 2014 to 295,000 (projected) for […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies |
By P Gosselin on 11. December 2015
Spiegel has the latest analysis of the climate haggling going on at COP21. It looks pretty heated. From science journalist Axel Bojanowski‘s perspective, the representatives have encountered some major obstacles. He writes of a “huge clamor” and reports that the treaty is on the brink. He writes, citing delegates, the negotiations have been charged with “harsh […]
Posted in Climate Politics |
By P Gosselin on 25. March 2014
It turns out that because of the emissions of extraordinarily potent greenhouse gases NF3 and SF6 and energy during the manufacture of solar modules, solar energy ends up being worse for the climate than burning coal (assuming the global warming hypothesis is valid). A Swiss engineer has made a thorough analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, CO2 and GHG |
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