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Most of The World Could Be 100% Powered With Renewables by 2050

Maybe India does need more coal to power growth. Does that make her wrong to be concerned about the consequences?

Renewables are thankfully starting to out compete fossil fuels in India.

India: coal plummets, renewables stepping in - Energy Post

Also as you say you also have the devastating consequences of climate change there developing countries will suffer the most.

Climate change blights children's lives in Bangladesh

Climate change 'cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises' | Science | The Guardian

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report | Environment | The Guardian

There developing countries are also suffering the most from pollution from fossil fuels.

More than 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day
 
[h=2]Australian energy market likened to Papua New Guinea – unreliable, risky, like “developing nation”[/h]

The AEMO, theoretically the Australian Energy Market Operator, warned that people in Victoria and NSW face a high risk of blackouts this summer. Today the Sydney Morning Herald describes how big business is fed-up, calling it “disgraceful” that they have had to spend millions to install back up generators. The chief of Coca-cola Amatil Australia compared the situation to what they face in Papua New Guinea.
How green is your diesel?
[h=3]A disgraceful situation — the blackout risk in Australia[/h]by Darren Gray and Nick Toscano.
Australia’s biggest fruit and vegetable grower, Costa Group, has blasted the “disgraceful” state of the nation’s energy market after fears of summer blackouts forced the company to spend millions of dollars on back-up generators to protect its crops around the country.
Harry Debney, the head of ASX-listed horticulture giant Costa Group, said the company had installed back-up generators to protect crops from a disruption to energy supplies in a number of states.
“It’s a disgraceful situation,” Mr Debney said. “We’re so concerned. There’s a lack of reliability, which is even more important than the cost, because if you’re out of production it just really hurts you very badly.”
His concerns were echoed by ASX-listed Alumina Limited which, along with Alcoa owns the majority of western Victoria’s Portland aluminium smelter, and warned that long-term outages could be damaging. Last week Coca-Cola Amatil boss Alison Watkins likened the situation to one the company would face in developing countries like Papua New Guinea while Bluescope has also raised concerns.
In response, the Federal Government is building gold-plated bandaids — spending bazillions to build Snowy 2.0 which will burn up and waste 20 – 30% of the electricity fed into it, but smooth out some of the unreliable supply. Minister Angus Taylor, squarely blames Victoria for “the speed at which the Victorian government was seeking to introduce renewable energy into market – a renewables target of 50 per cent by 2030 – without the baseload capacity to support it.”
[h=4]Meanwhile, the Victorian Government is in deep denial[/h]Apparently what the nation needs is a joint headlong rush into wind and solar.
Victoria’s energy minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, said the the country was lacking “any type of federal leadership when it comes to energy policy”.
“Victoria is investing in renewable energy to put more power into the grid and drive down power prices,” she said. “We stand ready to work with the Commonwealth, whenever they are interested in being constructive on this vital issue.”
If we only had more of the same thing that caused high prices and reckless instability we could get low prices and a reliable supply?
 
[h=2]Australian energy market likened to Papua New Guinea – unreliable, risky, like “developing nation”[/h]

The AEMO, theoretically the Australian Energy Market Operator, warned that people in Victoria and NSW face a high risk of blackouts this summer. Today the Sydney Morning Herald describes how big business is fed-up, calling it “disgraceful” that they have had to spend millions to install back up generators. The chief of Coca-cola Amatil Australia compared the situation to what they face in Papua New Guinea.
How green is your diesel?
[h=3]A disgraceful situation — the blackout risk in Australia[/h]by Darren Gray and Nick Toscano.
Australia’s biggest fruit and vegetable grower, Costa Group, has blasted the “disgraceful” state of the nation’s energy market after fears of summer blackouts forced the company to spend millions of dollars on back-up generators to protect its crops around the country.
Harry Debney, the head of ASX-listed horticulture giant Costa Group, said the company had installed back-up generators to protect crops from a disruption to energy supplies in a number of states.
“It’s a disgraceful situation,” Mr Debney said. “We’re so concerned. There’s a lack of reliability, which is even more important than the cost, because if you’re out of production it just really hurts you very badly.”
His concerns were echoed by ASX-listed Alumina Limited which, along with Alcoa owns the majority of western Victoria’s Portland aluminium smelter, and warned that long-term outages could be damaging. Last week Coca-Cola Amatil boss Alison Watkins likened the situation to one the company would face in developing countries like Papua New Guinea while Bluescope has also raised concerns.
In response, the Federal Government is building gold-plated bandaids — spending bazillions to build Snowy 2.0 which will burn up and waste 20 – 30% of the electricity fed into it, but smooth out some of the unreliable supply. Minister Angus Taylor, squarely blames Victoria for “the speed at which the Victorian government was seeking to introduce renewable energy into market – a renewables target of 50 per cent by 2030 – without the baseload capacity to support it.”
[h=4]Meanwhile, the Victorian Government is in deep denial[/h]Apparently what the nation needs is a joint headlong rush into wind and solar.
Victoria’s energy minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, said the the country was lacking “any type of federal leadership when it comes to energy policy”.
“Victoria is investing in renewable energy to put more power into the grid and drive down power prices,” she said. “We stand ready to work with the Commonwealth, whenever they are interested in being constructive on this vital issue.”
If we only had more of the same thing that caused high prices and reckless instability we could get low prices and a reliable supply?

More blog junk. Australia is doing just fine with renewables, and they are investing more than ever.
 
More blog junk. Australia is doing just fine with renewables, and they are investing more than ever.

You have so many positive examples from around the world that show that a transition away from fossil fuels are possible.

"The looming fossil fuel peak is expected to emerge decades ahead of forecasts from oil and mining companies, which are betting that demand for polluting energy will rise until the 2040s.

But energy experts are adjusting their forecasts as clean energy technologies, including wind and solar power, emerge faster than predicted and at costs that pose a direct threat to coal-fired electricity and combustion-engine vehicles."


Rise of renewables may see off oil firms decades earlier than they think | Environment | The Guardian

"Renewable energy sources provided more electricity to UK homes and businesses than fossil fuels for the first time over the last quarter, according to new research.

The renewables record was set in the third quarter of this year after its share of the electricity mix rose to 40%.

It is the first time that electricity from British windfarms, solar panels and renewable biomass plants has surpassed fossil fuels since the UK’s first power plant fired up in 1882."


Renewable electricity overtakes fossil fuels in UK for first time | Business | The Guardian
 
Impressive advancement of high speed trains in China.

"Work on building a 1,000km-long, super-fast magnetic levitation (maglev) railway in China between Guangzhou and Wuhan is expected to start next year, according to local media.Trains would travel at between 600km/h and a theoretical maximum of 1,000 km/h, cutting the travel time between the two cities from about 10 hours to two.

The maglev system keeps rolling stock hovering above rails, allowing high speeds by removing friction."

Work on China’s 1,000km maglev railway “to begin next year” - News - GCR

There you also see advancement of train travel in Europe.

Why Many Europeans Are Opting for Train Travel Over Flying | Time
 
[h=2]German Energy Expert Warns Of “Deindustrialized Germany” …”Chinese Laughing Their Heads Off”[/h]By P Gosselin on 18. October 2019
Usually shunned by the German mainstream media, today moderate, rational voices on the issue of climate change are beginning to be heard on the air waves once again. This may be temporary. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Leading German climate science critic Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Image: Die kalte Sonne
For example, just days ago, leading climate science critic Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was interviewed by NDR German public radio’s Anke Harnack on the topic of climate change. As protests by yellow vests in France and angry farmers in the Netherlands intensify, perhaps the establishment in Germany is having second thoughts about going down the hysterical climate rescue path that has been forcefully advocated in Germany over the recent months.
Prosperity based on “reliable energy supplies”
In the interview Vahrenholt, a leading founder of Germany’s modern environmental movement, tells the NDR that following the demands made by Greta Thunberg would put global prosperity at risk and exacerbate world hunger. He says the amazing improvement human society has seen over the last 100 years is thanks to “reliable energy supplies”.
“Huge, huge difficulties”
“Shutting these down in 12 years would indeed throw us into huge, huge difficulties.”

Vahrenholt says all the recent “panic is leading policymakers into making errors and will lead to disappointment for the youth because it is not doable.” He adds changing over the green energies is needed ultimately, but this cannot be done over a short time period of a decade or two. He says “we need two generations” to get off fossil fuels and that it’s going to require “more innovation and research in order to get CO2 emissions down to acceptable levels by the end of the century.”
Vahrenholt, the former director of renewable energies company Innogy, says he is also puzzled over why Germany refuses to do research on fusion and remains so fixated on unstable sun and wind. Vahrenholt was one for the 500 scientists who recently signed a letter to the UN declaring that the planet was not facing a climate crisis.
97% consensus claim distorted
On the claim 97% agree that man is behind global warming, Vahrenholt says this figure has been completely misrepresented, and that it is in fact “only a handful of scientists” who say that man is 100% responsible. Many scientists say that man is only partly responsible.
Chinese are laughing
The outspoken German professor of chemistry says giving in to the demands of the radical greens would lead to a deindustrialized Germany: “In the end what’s left is a deindustrialized Germany, and the Chinese are laughing their heads off.”
Leaders lack courage
On the large Fridays for Future protests, Vahrenholt says: “It’s not surprising because currently hardly a teacher, hardly a journalist, hardly a scientist has the courage to say: ‘Dear millions of people, we find it nice that you’re concerned about the climate, but let’s really discuss among each other what really needs to be done, and how much time we have.’ This really annoys me. I may not always be right, but I’m pretty sure that the alarmists are not right.”
 
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[h=2]High Electricity Costs, Hostile Environmental Activism, Uncertainty Now Crippling German Economy …Outlook Bleak[/h]By P Gosselin on 22. October 2019
German online weekly FOCUS writes Germany is turning into “Europe’s economic sick man” – due in large part to high energy prices and fierce environmental radicalism.
The German weekly reports how German industrial production has been falling, citing figures from the automotive, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries, all of which need large quantities of energy.
German industrial production in freefall
German economic output, now bordering on a recession, has been slowing down markedly since early 2018 and is now lagging behind the Eurozone average.
FOCUS cites a chart provided by Global Insight, Commerzbank-Research, which shows the 3-month moving average for industrial production, with 2015 equaling 100:
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While the Eurozone industrial production has been holding steady since 2015, Germany has been falling since the end of 2017. Source: Global Insight, Commerzbank-Research.
The same trend is observed for the automotive industry. Car production by German automakers has been cut back domestically while the rest of Europe has seen greater car production by German automakers. Germany is no longer a production friendly location to do business.
High energy prices, hostile environmentalism taking a toll
FOCUS reports that the quality of Germany as a industry-friendly location “is deteriorating” and that the country has been “moving environmentally burdensome production” beyond its borders and notes how “German companies pay the highest electricity prices in Europe by a wide margin.”
“That particularly burdens the chemical industry,” FOCUS writes.

Under attack by radical environmentalism
Recently Germany has come under massive fire from a concerted campaign by environmental groups for not taking the fight against climate change seriously enough and moving too slowly in converting its energy supply to one that is green.
The Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion protests have been widespread in Germany and spooked politicians.
Sights on combustion engines and conventional power plants
Now the pressure is mounting to ban internal combustion engines altogether and to shut down the remaining nuclear power plants and to exit coal fired power. Analysts warn, however, that such power plant shutdowns will only make German electricity even more expensive, and make the country even less attractive as a place to do business.
German farmers block streets nationwide
Environmentalists and government regulators have also targeted agriculture in Germany. Today, farmers shut down streets in a nationwide protest and “are calling on Federal Ministers Klöckner and Schulze to discuss current agricultural and climate plans with them so they can have their say.”
Juggernaut Turkey
Already Europe is in turmoil as at times violent protests rage in Spain, France, Netherlands and Belgium. In addition, Britain is pressing ahead with its exit out of the European Union while millions of refugees threaten to make their way to Europe from the war-ravaged Middle East, Turkey and North Africa. Refugee camps in Italy and Greece are horrendously overfilled.
The last thing Europe needs now are more insane, industry-destroying, jobs-killing policies. Hard economic times, energy poverty and millions of refugees would lead to a highly explosive situation in Europe.
It’s time for Europe’s leaders to finally sober the hell up and admit their policies are naive pipe dreams.
 
Without massive viable energy storage, most of the alternate energy sources are of limited use.

Once the US is getting over 35% of it's power from wind and solar, we can start discussing the need for storage. The state of Iowa has shown that they can generate 35% of it's electrical power from wind energy, without any storage.
 
Once the US is getting over 35% of it's power from wind and solar, we can start discussing the need for storage. The state of Iowa has shown that they can generate 35% of it's electrical power from wind energy, without any storage.
NO! the storage is need now, even minor levels of poor duty cycle power are disruptive to grid operations and can drive costs up.
 
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[h=1]No More Cooking With Gas: Environmental Activists Going After the Appliances Consumers Love[/h][FONT=&quot]From Western Wire by Erin Mundahl October 18, 2019 Consumers are getting caught in the crossfire of environmental activists’ war against natural gas and the new battlefield is in the kitchen. Environmentalists began collaborating with state government officials from across the United States at a closed-door gathering in New York this summer to lay out…
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[h=2]Iconic German Rock Performer Sends Message: “Don’t Believe In Young Crazy Sects Who Want To Crucify SUV Drivers”[/h]By P Gosselin on 25. October 2019
German writer/rock singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze recently performed at at a city festival in Berlin Teltow, and had a message about today’s opinion intolerance, alarmism, political correctness, etc. for Germany’s leaders and supremacist activists.
Regular mainstream German citizens often run the risk of being attacked whenever expressing dissenting views on hot-button issues, such as climate and immigration, in Germany.
Hat-tip Die kalte Sonne
What follows are some excerpts from Kunze’s message in Teltow (from YouTube clip (see below), text written by Severin Tatarczyk:
[…]We are the people who are deeply convinced that the best cure for narrow-mindedness, stupidity, fear and hatred is education. And we are horrified by the almost systematic stupefaction of our children in public schools, where performance-hostile, child-centred so-called educators set the tone, not teachers who deserve this name.
We are the people who worry about the future, but also about the present because we ‘ve already experienced enough hysteria, panic and excitement: the sixty-eighters, arms race, dying forests, nuclear fear… We don’t believe in the predominantly young crazy sects who want to crucify all SUV drivers like in the dark Middle Ages and with vegan mouth-foamers.
Future yes, but not with rabid prohibitions, regulations and constraints, but with creative innovations and initiatives. We are neither the moral superiors nor correctness-smartasses nor right-wing rats for these catchers. We are the inhabitants of this beautiful area. We are the citizens. We are the people.”
Read entire message (in German) severint.net. Youtube Clip:
 
NO! the storage is need now, even minor levels of poor duty cycle power are disruptive to grid operations and can drive costs up.

You live in the State of Texas, who is very effectively using a wind-first philosophy in it's electrical generation, and has no need for battery or other unconventional backup power. They have the 11th lowest electricity cost in the US. As I mentioned, Iowa gets more than 35% of it's power from wind, and they are managing just fine.
 
You live in the State of Texas, who is very effectively using a wind-first philosophy in it's electrical generation, and has no need for battery or other unconventional backup power. They have the 11th lowest electricity cost in the US. As I mentioned, Iowa gets more than 35% of it's power from wind, and they are managing just fine.
Texas also has quite a few peaking plants and base load power plants, and a history of large daily and seasonal load swings.
Ercot, is simply better prepared to take advantage, because the added costs were already built into the system.
 
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I keep trying to tell people we have an energy problem, not a CO2 problem.
 

Southeast Asia: Coal Demand To Double By 2040

From The GWPF Date: 31/10/19 Bloomberg There’s just no stopping coal in Southeast Asia. Surging investments in wind and solar energy won’t be enough to shake the fuel’s dominance in the region for decades to come, according to the International Energy Agency. Coal demand is expected to double to almost 400 million tons a year…
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Plans for new coal plants are being canceled all across the world because the dramatic drop in cost for renewable energy.

"India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired power stations – about the same as the total amount in the UK – with the price for solar electricity “free falling” to levels once considered impossible.
Analyst Tim Buckley said the shift away from the dirtiest fossil fuel and towards solar in India would have “profound” implications on global energy markets.

According to his article on the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis’s website, 13.7GW of planned coal power projects have been cancelled so far this month – in a stark indication of the pace of change."

India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low | The Independent

There former exporter of coal can instead become exporter of renewable energy.

After garnering attention last month when ambitious plans were unveiled by project proponents Sun Cable, the world’s biggest solar plant has taken a big step forward winning Major Project Status from the Northern Territory (NT) government. The proposed Australia-Singapore Power Link is a $20 billion project consisting of a 10 GW solar farm coupled with a 20-30 GWh storage facility in the sun-drenched Tennant Creek region.

As previously reported, the project plans to export electricity to both Darwin and Singapore. According to David Griffin, managing director of Singapore-based Sun Cable, the project’s transmission capacity will stand at 2.5 GW. Power will be transported via 3,800-km high voltage direct current submarine cables and cover 20% of Singapore’s power demand.


Australia-Singapore power link: world’s biggest solar-plus-storage project gets government backing – pv magazine International
 
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Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular

From Bloomberg Local politics are a bigger problem for renewable energy growth than competition from fossil fuels. By Leonid Bershidsky October 31, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT Despite their surging popularity in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, the Greens did badly in last Sunday’s election in the German state of Thuringia, and the nationalists from the
 
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