Climate Change 🌿 | Breaking our Fossil Fuel Addiction | The New York Times

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The Covid-19 crisis collapsed demand for energy, with oil prices falling to an astonishing -$37.63 per barrel in late April. But as the world looks toward recovery, can this shock be seized to break the global addiction to fossil fuels, or will the “new normal” end up looking much like the old one? How can we accelerate the rise in renewables to meet urgent global demand throughout the recovery? How will businesses with global operations adapt to support this transformation? And could a green recovery provide the necessary boost to strengthen commitment to the climate goals, which the world so badly needs?
Moderator: Ivan Penn, Energy Correspondent, The New York Times
🌿 Meredith Adler, Executive Director, Student Energy
🌿 Salvatore Bernabei, C.E.O. of Enel Green Power and Head of Enel Global Power Generation
🌿 Kingsmill Bond, Energy Strategist, Carbon Tracker
🌿 David Hardy, C.E.O. of Offshore North America, Ørsted
🌿 Mary Anne Hitt, National Director of Campaigns, Sierra Club
🌿 Jessica O. Matthews, Founder and C.E.O., Uncharted Power
🌿 Whitney Richardson, International Events Manager, The New York Times
🌿 Nigel Topping, UK High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26
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[@studentenergy]

Great discussion!

[@mplaw77]

Do not have time or inclination for a technical talk go to 1:15 and listen to the last 15 minutes of what happened to him for not following the "PARTY LINE" got him pillory and stoned half to death by the hysterical new priest in a modern Inquisition ...boiling turpentine next?
On a climate change forum (NYTimes) on FB is the platform this was instantly blocked, the baby billionaires with the best bong smoke know best on all matters of YOUR $ would not want crony capitalists profiting on trillions in handout of American taxpayer dollars to the CCP from making wind and solar machines giving the CCP control of the US energy industry and the US in general, talk about slavery working conditions and government intrusion it does not get worse than under the CCP.
Why? First of all ignorance of what science does and does not do, it never provides fungible answers to political questions regarding Congress spending our money. Democrats loved to toss the word science says, and the sciences is settled (forgetting to add, only as good as the last experiement and not so good as a crystal ball.)
“The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.” NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
(I agree with half of this statement, the problem is kids not knowing science and getting together with other kids in the US House of Representatives and just how they decided to borrow and spend trillions of dollars.
Sancho tells them they are only windmills and not a natural gas fired power plant, or a nuclear plant, windmills say Sancho cannot bridge the gap, and Sandy (AOC) and Don Quixote ride off on twitter doing battle and making fools of themselves, not knowing a little science is very costly. Science is only as good as the last experiment and all the fuss is over very fuzzy without proper controls or precise measurements, not even well understood, yet those gurus of computer modeling, what the Democrats call science, tech billionaires and major donors impressed with themselves and their vaporware empires that last but a moment when the windmills freeze up. Peering into their crystal ball, the blue light causes them to lose sleep, (the crony capitalist getting rich on government handout, the computer jocks agree, greenies turn a brighter more incandescent color green, it is climate change as if it had never happened before, existential threat, no waiting for the extinction meteor or super volcano to blow off and terraform us. A kind of psychosis. I believe ....
Wind turbines need rare earths, so do the most efficient solar arrays, China control more than 25% of the lithium in the world.
Strong magnets need: neodymium
Most of these reserves are located within China, and are estimated at some 44 million metric tons. The United States has 1.5 million metric tons, second after China, the others with rare earth based on reserve volume are Vietnam, Brazil, and Russia.
A 5 megawatt direct-drive wind turbine with a permanent-magnet generator will use three tonnes of permanent magnets of which one tonne is rare earth oxide alloy or another rare earth compound, says Gareth Hatch, head of business development at Adamas
According to a report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, wind turbines are predominantly made of steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminum (0-2%).
Additionally, how much steel is in a 2 megawatt windmill? A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons.
All the concrete to anchor them takes kiln fuel.
The CO2 emission from the concrete production is directly proportional to the cement content used in the concrete mix; 900 kg of CO2 are emitted for the fabrication of every ton of cement, accounting for 88% of the emissions associated with the average concrete mix.
Murry Salby "What is Really Behind the Increase of Atmospheric CO2?"
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[@suewhite98]

Wish we could stop saying "net zero" and just work toward ZERO emissions - is "net" less scary for corporate interests?