The ASTOUNDING huge big news out of COP28 "so far" is Biden's comitment to not just build NO MORE, not one, coal plant ever again, but the cycle down and Replace ALL COAL PLANTS NOW within 12 years.
US TO REPLACE COAL PLANTS
Coal is 20% of the US power system. That is construction of massive size. Terawats of renewable construction. Funding for remefiation for energy industry jobs, protecting former coal communities.
Coal to Hydrogen with CCS such a bad idea. Say no to Victoria’s Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project for #Coal to #Hydrogen for export to Japan. The hydrogen is marketed as clean, but it is based on the supposition that proposed carbon capture and storage will work. Industrial scale #CCS projects from Western Australia and Norway show CCS is failing to meet its targets and comes with complex risks.
#Solidarity and #gratitude to the hundreds of people who used kayaks and their bodies to blockade the world's busiest #coal port for 32 hours this weekend, and to the thousands who supported them, and to the millions who cheered them on, and to the billions for whose sake they were acting. This was a taste of an unstoppable force of collective #courage, #care and #commitment
"The initiative has built power plants mostly [#coal burning], roads, railroads and ports around the world and deepened #China’s relations with Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mideast.
[Now] China has pledged to stop building coal power plants overseas, though it remains involved in some, and is encouraging projects related to the green transition."
#Ohio officials cast wary eye on new owner at former Beckjord site after local farmer purchases 1/3rd of the site.
The W.C. Beckjord Station, a closed Duke Energy #coal power plant located 20 miles east of #Cincinnati, contains more than 10 billion pounds of toxins that are packed into ponds along the banks of the #OhioRiver
Amazing how the corporate entities involved in this can shutter their responsibility to a farmer after raking in billions of dollars
In “How to avoid a #climate disaster”, Bill Gates asks the question “How much space do you need?” and starts comparing the power density of different sources, such as #nuclear, #coal, #solar and #wind
And I just don’t understand why he is asking that question 🤷♂️
Last I checked we are running out of time, not space. So should the question not be: “How long will it take to implement?” Or am I missing something?
The #epas new rule "is expected to require #coal and natural #gas#PowerPlants to cut or capture almost all their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. But that’s a decade sooner than most of the nation’s largest power producers are aiming to be net #carbon free."
Today in Labor History August 25, 1819: Allan Pinkerton was born. He founded the Pinkerton private police force, whose strike breaking detectives (Pinkertons, or 'Pinks') slaughtered dozens of workers in various labor struggles. Ironically, Pinkerton was a violent, radical leftist as a youth. He fought cops in the streets as a member of the Chartist Movement. He had to flee the UK in order to not be imprisoned and executed. Yet in America, he became the nation’s first super cop. He created the secret service. He foiled an assassination attempt against Lincoln. He fine-tuned the art of spying on activists and planting agents provocateur in their ranks. His agents played a major role in destroying the miners’ union in the 1870s, as portrayed in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.” Later, they assassinated numerous organizers with the IWW and came within inches of successfully getting Big Bill Hayward convicted on trumped up murder charges.
If you think a key to dealing with the #climatecrisis is a swift move away from #coal for power generation, then you will be rightly worried that both India & China are increasing their use of coal whatever their other #green commitments....
Once again political elites are saying one thing but doing another....
As the chart indicates; also whatever other countries do, if China doesn't move away from coal we'll never transit away from it
Not only #ExxonKnew, but also #ShellKnew, way before 1986 as we have thought so far.
"#Shell already began collecting knowledge about climate change in the 1960s. The company not only kept well abreast of #climate science, but also funded research. As a result, Shell already knew in the 1970s that burning #FossilFuels could lead to alarming #ClimateChange."
They did nothing to curb fossil fuels. In fact, they doubled down and developed #coal.
Yet another case where Michael Gove overruled significant opposition, using spurious reasons to approve an indefensible project.
Gove destroyed education in this country and has gone on to destroy its very fabric. This toxic little ideologue should never again be allowed near government.
“In the tradition of Upton Sinclair and Jack London, Michael Dunn gives us a gritty portrait of working-class life and activism during one of the most violent eras in U.S. labor history. Anywhere but Schuylkill is a social novel built out of passion and the textures of historical research. It is both a tale of 1870s labor unrest and a tale for the inequalities and injustices of the twenty-first century.”
-Russ Castronovo, author of Beautiful Democracy and Propaganda 1776.
Available on Sep 19, 2023, from all the usual online distributors, or direct from my publisher: http://wix.to/M9gMx11
"#China expects to install 455 GW of wind and solar before the end of this decade.
[But also] China burned more #coal last year than the rest of the world combined."
Interesting:
"Everyone thinks in terms of moving electricity to where it is needed. The idea of moving demand closer to the source is intriguing and a trend that deserves to be watched carefully. #Energy has always been a powerful force for social change and could be again."
"About 69.5 gigawatts (GW) of #coal plant capacity came online last year, of which two-thirds were built in China, according to the report. There were also plants built in Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Japan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Korea, Greece and Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, a slowdown in coal plant shutdowns in the US and Europe led to more than 21GW retiring last year.
The net annual increase is almost 48.5GW for the year, the highest since 2016."