sendler2112 said:
This is the common mistake in confusing the words "energy" and "power" when we mean to say electricity. Most people are doing this. Most written articles are doing this. Which for Germany, electricity is only 21% of primary energy consumption.
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33% of ELECTRICITY is from renewables. Which includes biomass. 22.4% of ELECTRICITY in germany is from solar and wind.
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But solar and wind is only 4.1% of the total primary "ENERGY" comsumption in Germany. Biomass makes 7.1% of the "ENERGY" in Germany. This is obviously much different than the common misrepresentation that we keep seeing. More energy comes from burning wood for heating than from wind and solar put together after their decades long best effort to replace all energy with with rebuildables.
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https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts
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That second image is great, as it shows the hard fact of how little of wind/solar gives you the power when you ACTUALLY NEED IT and Germany's "biomass" electricity generation is more than double the actual power provided to customers because it has the ability to be used at times it's actually NEEDED.
If mainstream media were using real-world data instead of trying to manipulate people this is all they should be shown. But if you talk to the average person on Facebook or ABC's TV talk show hosts who would be ranting about how great wind/solar is in Germany they probably haven't even heard of biomass, because of the constant stream of bad information.
On a different topic, I couldn't help but wonder about the raw weight of "materials" for the same MWh's generated for a wind-turbine setup vs a diesel generator.
https://www.cat.com/en_AU/products/new/power-systems/electric-power-generation/diesel-generator-sets.html
https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/2-mw-diesel-generator.html
I have done a few calculations on MWh output for wind-turbine setup that can put out an average of 2MW and compared it to a diesel generator that is 2MW and found that the wind-turbine setup has about 200 times the weight in materials of a diesel generator.
And if you replicated the diesel generator for power when you actually needed it model, utilizing a lithium battery+wind-turbine setup it probably doubles again. And a diesel generator for the same average MW is at least 20 times cheaper to buy.
On a different topic, there has been increased talk about Australian grid stability when putting more renewables on the Victorian grid. This article is pretty good and I am kind of surprised about it because AFR tends to be like Bloomberg when it comes to being constantly positive on renewable energy or there is no story at all.
AEMO imposes tough conditions on new wind and solar in Victoria's 'full' grid
https://www.afr.com/news/aemo-imposes-tough-conditions-on-new-wind-and-solar-in-victorias-full-grid-20181012-h16l0h
To me all the renewable energy builds in Australia are just to mine the subsidies, these companies aren't energy farmers they are subsidy farmers and the fact they are only willing to build solar farms over existing green farmlands to reduce ever having to clean dust off the panels helps prove that, if they were in it for the environment they would be planting trees on those green areas.
Craig Kelly says Coalition must kill off renewable energy subsidies
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/craig-kelly-says-coalition-must-kill-off-renewable-energy-subsidies?CMP=share_btn_tw
I always wondered why Malcolm Turnbull was such a huge renewable energy fan for what's supposed to be a conservative government, he seemed to love RE way beyond even what I thought would be acceptable just to please voters.
Turns out his son Alex Turnbull is invested up to his eyeballs in renewable energy projects and desperately needs his projects to go through to scoop up the money, but apparently, some of his projects are in a court case and the media can't talk about it other than say its in the courts, I think its just location issues such as annoying people in the area with wind-turbine noise etc.
And now that Malcolm Turnbull has been kicked out of Prime Minister of Australia (internally by the conservative Liberal Party) his son Alex Turnbull feels his best chance to get his subsidy money farming projects through is to do a desperate rant on Facebook telling folks to vote for anyone other than conservative party now.
Here is news on his rant
https://www.9news.com.au/2018/10/12/03/33/turnbull-s-son-urges-vote-against-liberals
https://reneweconomy.com.au/turnbulls-son-hails-cheap-renewables-urges-no-vote-for-crazy-liberals-77004/
http://www.ibtimes.com.au/malcolm-turnbulls-son-alex-urges-voters-dump-liberal-party-1572517
The exact same behaviour has been exhibited by John Hewson another ex-liberal who also has been revealed to be up to his eyeballs in renewable energy investments, he smells the change in the rules for subsidy miners and he's pretty much out there saying "Vote the Labor or the Greens or we are all going to die from climate change"
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/former-liberal-leader-urges-wentworth-voters-to-dump-coalition-over-climate-inaction
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/10/dave-sharma-says-liberals-doing-enough-on-climate-after-hewson-attack
If these guys owned any fossil fuel plants people would be out in the streets in anger, but because its green energy investments everyone's quiet, but just like everything in this area it proves these guys don't give a stuff about the environment, if they did they would be demanding we build nuclear which we all know destroys everything in low co2 emissions.
They are just trying to copy Al Gore, as Al Gore invested all his money in green-energy before he went public on his crusade on climate change. Turning his $2million into $100million dollars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/al-gore-has-thrived-as-green-tech-investor/2012/10/10/1dfaa5b0-0b11-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html
sendler2112 said:
Nuclear pride rally in Germany.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/10/15/in-wake-of-terrifying-climate-report-german-environmentalists-will-in-a-twist-rally-for-nuclear/#18dc137a49cf
Yeah, last month there was a "Hunger Strike" for nuclear energy in Taiwan, because they know that nuclear energy France emits less than 1/10th of the co2 than Germany or South Australia. Talk about having better-informed people than the western world.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/17/taiwanese-government-sparks-hunger-strike-after-rejecting-signatures-for-pro-nuclear-referendum/#6c336c5e6af9
The guy continued on his pro-nuclear energy hunger strike until he had to go to the hospital. If only our fake Greens political party even talked about wanting to get serious on CO2 emissions and go nuclear but they all hate nuclear, they are just walking pure political cancer.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/09/19/as-taiwanese-pro-democracy-activist-is-rushed-to-hospital-top-scientists-urge-nuclear-referendum/#6f638ce13a76
Plenty of articles from TheGuardian saying that when a person from the 3rd world migrates to the first world like from Africa to Europe they increase their CO2-footprint by a massive 60 times.
So 1 million new migrants mean 60million times increase in co2 emissions for that Euro country or Australia, but the purely fake political cancer Green groups just go running when you quiz them on this fact. These green groups are ALL ABOUT THE MONEY AND POLITICAL POWER, they don't give a shit about the environment. They are pure SJW cancer https://youtu.be/EXkqZnq4z-I
On another subject.. Because of the ammonia to hydrogen membrane breakthrough for carrying hydrogen in a super convenient manner, the memes for it are already out there.
Got this one from Fuelcellworks which is some kind of news service for Fuel-Cell technology https://twitter.com/fuelcellsworks
One a yet another topic, when the SA labour government bought 9 35MW diesel generators there was suspicion from the opposition that the SA government had deliberately thrown money away for them.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/emergency-diesel-generators-set-to-cost-taxpayers-610m/news-story/aff0607384d339be45a1ce3bf9c208e8
From the article
Emergency diesel generators set to cost taxpayers $610m
A report from senior silk Mark Livesey was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
It had been six months in the making and his appointment to investigate the deal was one of the first actions taken by the new government.
Mr Livesey was asked to examine the impacts of former premier Jay Weatherill’s decision to buy the nine generators rather than lease.
Dan van Holst Pellekaan on Tuesday told Parliament the report had exposed a huge blowout in the estimated cost revealed before the election, and was a “damning indictment”.
So $610million total, but Solar quotes estimated them to be $23million each so a total of $207million at the time of the purchase.
https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/south-australia-diesel-generators/
So instead of just 9 35MW diesel generators, they got if they had done it right it could have been as many as 26 they could have purchased.
So 26 x 35MW = 910MW, enough to run the entire state if they include their Victorian coal grid imports at around 700MW.