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NNadir

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11. How pretty! Replete with soothsaying! None of it...
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 12:20 PM
Nov 19

...will transform a Watt into a Joule however. The Watt is a Joule/sec, and the big lie is that so called "renewable energy" junk doesn't operate 86,400 seconds per day.

Table A.1a in the report, which I won't bother to show again since numbers don't seem to matter, should clearly show that 8 EJ (wind, 2023, same as 2022) + 8 EJ (solar 2023) does not equal the 30 EJ nuclear). I note once again that proponents of this multitrillion dollar failed "renewables will save us" scheme show zero interest in the rising use of fossil fuels. Their interest has always been and still is to attack the only high energy density low carbon form of scalable energy there is, nuclear energy.

After more than 4 decades, their interest is not in a burning planet but rather in whining about Three Mile Island.

As for reproducing graphics from the WEO, without demonstrating a whit of understanding, I'm not impressed or moved. I have issues going back decades, and all the charts and graphs therein have done nothing at all to address the extreme global heating now observed worldwide. The data is useful, the soothsaying, not at all. Unless, by the way, the outcome is not what the soothsaying predicts, the planet and all living things on it are fucked.

I now return the conversation to TMI whining. How many people died from the radiation leaks associated with the 1978 TMI meltdown again. As many as have died from the fossil fuel waste released to power computers to discuss it?

Got a chart?

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It's not like we've run out of ecosystems to fuck up for reactionary fantasies, have we? There are still more... NNadir Nov 19 #1
That is just what is so scary jfz9580m Nov 19 #2
Figure 1.14 Global installed clean power capacity and electricity generation, 2010-2023 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #3
Figure 2.1 - Global total energy supply, 2010-2023 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #4
Figure 2.15 IEA indices for clean energy and upstream oil and gas, and global average price of selected clean energy... OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #5
Figure 3.1 - Global total energy supply by source and fossil fuel share by scenario, 2000-2050 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #6
Figure 3.3 - Global installed capacity of renewables, 2010-2030, and emissions reductions by scenario, 2023-2030 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #7
How pretty! Replete with soothsaying! None of it... NNadir Nov 19 #11
Do you trust the report or not? OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #13
I trust the DATA in the report, not the soothsaying. An educated person, as opposed to a credulous rube... NNadir Nov 20 #15
OK, here's a table for you OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 #16
Um, it is apparently a waste of time to do what should be... NNadir Nov 20 #17
Table B.4a Technology costs in selected regions in the Stated Policies Scenario OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 #18
Table B.4a (Edited) OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 #19
Figure 3.21 - Global electricity generation by source and scenario, 1990-2050 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #8
Figure 3.24 - Share of renewables in electricity generation by country/region and scenario, 2015-2035 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #9
Figure 3.27 - Power sector investment by technology and scenario, and share in emerging market and developing economies, OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #10
Figure 3.42 - Clean energy technology contribution to energy combustion CO2 emissions reduction in the APS, 2023-2050 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #12
Table A.1a - In Context OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 #14
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