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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Chris Smage-Arguing For A Small Farm Future: Nobody can tell what the future holds, but it’s a fair bet that global economic output won’t grow sixfold over the next 50 years as it has done over the last 50. Nor is it likely that fossil fuel use will triple like it has done over the same period...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    "The Great Unraveling" 10 minute video interview series hosted on the Post Carbon Institute site features luminaries in various disciplines speaking on what are our opportunities and constraints as human civilization moves forward into the future. As interviewed by Laurie Laybourn-Langton...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The actual price of the electrical generation as stated on my bill in my grid of NY USA is $0.047/ kWh. My price all together at the bottom of the bill is $0.127/ kWh. 37% nuclear, 38% gas, 19% hydro.
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    It's not just direct energy use but also a big issue of consumption of embodied energy and raw materials in our "stuff", in our infrastructure, in our food, ect. As fossil Carbon, Phosphorous, Copper, ect, leave us either by decision or depletion, attempts to replace or displace these at the...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Germany is running out of money and of the will of the people to support new solar installations so subsidies like feed in tariffs are being reduced. Cephalotus (and green magazines) refuses to accept reality on the total cost information of new solar farms that we post since their job is as a...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Just for the parts for a 10kW roof top system costs $1.48/ Watt. With micro-inverters: https://unboundsolar.com/1895330/unbound-solar/solar-kits/wss-9.6-kw-grid-tied-solar-system-with-enphase-iq7-microinverters-and-30x-canadian-solar-320w-panels . With voltage optimizers...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    . "The most recent cost figures i can find for Germany’s utility solar plants are .. Meuro.. , costing E140m for the 70MW first stage...IE E2000/kWp.. (us$2600/kWp) Neuhardenberg....costing E280m , for 145MW,...E2000/kWp Templin ....E205m, for 128MW ....E1600/kWp ....( us$2000/kWp) ....all of...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    A carbon tax doesn't have to result in a Yellow Vest rebellion. If it is revenue neutral it can actually be progressive. H.R 763 has been kicking around the USA House Of Representatives for a decade but maybe now the time will come for it to pass. It places a Carbon tax on all forms including...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Direct Subsidies for Carbon energy in the USA have a high dollar amount but the Carbon energy (and nuclear) that is produced is immense compared to wind and solar so the actual dollar per energy is very small. Natural gas gets almost nothing and oil and coal is very little. Here is the chart for...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The point is that solar farms are still running in the range of $3/ Watt in the USA when total project costs are considered.
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    One of the newest solar farms in the USA is California Flats which was conscripted by Apple and completed in 2019 with a price tag of $848 million and a capacity of 280 MW. $3/ Watt and requires 2,900 acres. . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Flats_Solar_Project ...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Ian Angus: "The deadly trio of ocean warming, loss of oxygen and acidification are all consequences of disrupting the global carbon cycle. Burning massive amounts of long-buried carbon has changed the ocean’s chemistry, heated the water and driven out oxygen. Those processes take place...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Nuclear is currently less than 2%. And going down. How long does it take to increase nuclear 50X?
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Same chart with the relative percentage selected. Triple the value of wind and solar if you like to make up for reporting the wasted inefficiencies of thermal energy supplies. They are still barely more than a rounding error. We are going to come up way short as we move away from fossil Carbon...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The scale of current energy consumption is a big blind spot. As is it's relationship to population increase and to world economy which fit almost the same curve. World primary energy is still 85% fossil Carbon and new Year on Year Carbon energy build out is still outpacing wind and solar...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Richard Heinberg: "The world seems to be coming apart at the seams. It’s critical to understand why, so that we can avoid the worst and find the best responses so as to move toward the environmentally and socially healthy future we want. This straightforward explanation proposes that the main...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Sound familiar? Counter Punch: "Once its power was secure, however, fascism revealed its authoritarian face. It unflinchingly set about crushing organized labor, denying independent news publications, doubting validity of elections, scapegoating and eliminating racialized underclasses...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Thanks. The chart on it's own without explanation is very misleading, suggesting that of all transportation energy sources, the highest percentage is biogas.
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Can you explain this chart? This shows values of "renewable gas" share of "transportation" as high as 94% for Sweden for example. How can this be?
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    How about The Intercept? . "IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to overstate the importance of the OAS accusations in driving Morales from his own country and, with no democratic mandate, shifting power in lithium-rich Bolivia to the white, Christian, U.S.-subservient right. While critics had also...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    How about the New York Times? . A close look at Bolivian election data suggests an initial analysis by the O.A.S. that raised questions of vote-rigging — and helped force out a president — was flawed. ...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    How about The Guardian? . "What has received even less attention is the role of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the destruction of Bolivia’s democracy last November. As the New York Times reported on 7 June, the organization’s “flawed” analysis immediately following the 20 October...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    The coup in Bolivia last year was centered on a fight for their Lithium by the rich countries. . Evo Morales: "Last December, Republican senator Richard Black acknowledged that the coup had been planned in the United States, taking advantage of this opportunity [opened up by the racist right in...
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    Global Green House Gas emissions by sector. . https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector . .
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    Wind and Solar vs Coal, Gasoline, Nuclear

    "Just do the math. As a minimum, every additional person needs a certain quantity of food to eat and clean water to drink. Extra people could, in theory, live without roofs over their heads, but no one wishes for a world with more homeless people. Beyond basic needs for food, water, and shelter...
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