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Where will our future demands for energy lead ?

​What natural disasters should teach us

Hurricanes, landslides and other disasters show Africans why we need fossil fuels Steven Lyazi I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much lower than in many previous storms.…
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I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much lower than in many previous storms. Buildings are stronger, people get warned in time to get out, and they have vehicles to get to safer places until the storms pass.
I also send my sincere sympathies to my fellow Ugandans who have been affected by terrible landslides in eastern Uganda, near Kenya. Natural disasters often strike us hard. Sometimes it is long droughts that dry up our crops and kill many cattle. This year it is torrential rains and landslides.
This time we were lucky. The collapsing hillsides destroyed three villages, but thankfully it was daytime and people were outside. They lost their homes, cattle and ripened crops, but not their families. A horrendous mudslide in the same mountainous area in 2010 buried 350 parents and children under 40 feet of mud and rock.
People there have been cutting down trees for decades – for fuel, lumber and to grow crops. Now no roots hold the hills together when it rains. More cracks have appeared in the hills, so more slides are likely. But people don’t want to leave their lands, and they’re not planting new trees either.
Some people are ignoring all this history and the human roles in causing these “natural” disasters. They are blaming the rains and mudslides on global warming, climate change and the fossil fuels that modern industrialized countries burn to provide modern homes, travels and living standards.
These false claims are intended to divert us from real problems. They are intended to justify demands and campaigns that Ugandans and other Africans should rely on a few wind turbines and solar panels and should never use oil, natural gas or coal to provide cheap, reliable and plentiful energy so that we can live more like Americans or Europeans.
These people want to become our Jesus, and save us from “global warming disasters,” by keeping us poor and at the mercy of Mother Nature. Former vice president Mr. Al Gore said manmade global warming has increased the number and strength of tornadoes and hurricanes, Mount Kilimanjaro’s glacier would disappear by 2016, and Arctic summers would be ice-free as soon as 2014. . . . .
 
longview said:
I came across this recent paper from Portugal, it echos some thing I have been saying for years.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...11/pdf&usg=AFQjCNGrswbZ0pGv1pKoAkW2ztkMAx0k_A
I am still reading, but so far it looks interesting.
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The Role of Synthetic Fuels for a Carbon
Neutral Economy
Rui Namorado Rosa
Institute of Earth Sciences, and Department of Physics, University of Évora, 7000-671 Évora, Portugal;
rrosa@uevora.pt
Academic Editor: Enrico Andreoli
Received: 8 December 2016; Accepted: 13 April 2017; Published: 20 April 2017
Abstract: Fossil fuels depletion and increasing environmental impacts arising from their use call
for seeking growing supplies from renewable and nuclear primary energy sources. However, it is
necessary to simultaneously attend to both the electrical power needs and the specificities of the
transport and industrial sector requirements. A major question posed by the shift away from
traditional fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources lies in matching the power demand with
the daily and seasonal oscillation and the intermittency of these natural energy fluxes. Huge energy
storage requirements become necessary or otherwise the decline of the power factor of both the
renewable and conventional generation would mean loss of resources.
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Just so we know what it is all about. Can you quote such next time, thanks!
 
Tim the plumber said:
Just so we know what it is all about. Can you quote such next time, thanks!
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Sorry, I thought it was interesting because it discussed many of the on going alternate fuel projects,
and how they could help solves some of the issues with solar and wind, (I.E. Storage and load balancing).
 
Jack Hays said:
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AGW proponents advocate minimizing fossil fuel usage, not an outright ban on using them for any purpose ever.

Would you agree with the above statement, Jack?
 
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