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That is a mug's game. And it's not my game.
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Oh..and me... Dave Borlace. Born 1969. BSc in Technology from the Open University in the UK. After a 30 year career in People and Project Management, I now work full time on the channel thanks to the amazing folks who support me on Patreon www.patreon.com/justhaveathink
Dave, I know I'm a bit late to this one, but that's a great video. I've lived and worked in China for 10 years and I'm now importing renewables components into the UK, so I feel quite heavily invested in this whole topic! Yes there are a lot of difficulties between the west and China and it's easy for for us to pick holes in their political system, we do need to hear the counterpoint more often and this video certainly does a grand job. Great work!
Just check the wind generation in UK in May and find that there was as much electricity produced by gas to take up the fact that the wind was not strong enough for Windgen to produce electricity on many days through the month and, of course, the solar farms do not work without sun or at night. How do YOU propose to prevent blackouts under these circumstances and don't say battery farms for goodness sake. AND, those backup gas power stations have to kept running 24/7 in order the be able to INSTANTLY react to the varying wind and prevent huge outages. So we now run two power systems in tandem instead of one. No wonder electricity costs so much more.
I had a thought. All the minor warming we have seen in the last 300 years or so is tiny, natural, and not driven by CO2. The ocean is getting warmer, so it can't absorb as much CO2. Thats why the atmosphere has a higher concentration of CO2.
Not a single scientific institution anywhere on earth agrees with you. The consensus that today's climate change is "unequivocally human-caused" is 99.9%, according to the latest survey of the field by Cornell University. The ocean is still a net absorber of CO2, not a net emitter. Scientists project a reversal of that dynamic by 2100, when we'll really be in trouble.
Im surprised that you did not mention lifting weights from the sea floor there is lots of distance there that comes for free. No need for mine shaft. One can use a barg
These energy systems are a complete waste of time to store energy is best to do it in an indirect way. How you do this is simple close the gates on the Hydro Dam then allow Water by natural processes to accumulate behind the damn when it rains or snows the water will be stored as energy behind the dam no need for pump storage when the when does blowing and the sun is shining you can supply electricity to the grid while the Hydro dam gates are closed. When the wind is not blowing or at night no solar you can lift the gates and produce power from the water turbines this is called indirect storage Quebec Hydro can do this the size of the grid can be as high as 14% for Renewables because of this indirect storage system in other parts of the world where these is no storage 10% can be feasible.
Good account Dave, and a good point about the risk to the planet, but of course we're not actually talking about the existential risk to all life. The risk is to us and many of the other species we really care about. Many species will survive, as many did after the K-T extinction event that did for the dinosaurs and opened the opportunity for mamals to become the dominant class of organisms.
Unfettered profit motive is undermining human health welfare and safety worldwide; fossil fuel and oligarchs, owning mass media and parts of Governments, continue to misinform people on the high value of renewable energy to keep everyone buying their product even though burning fossil fuel threatens humanity. We've hit 80f already, where we never saw that high heat until mid August. Climate change is now and its gonna be a hot one.
in the us here there's room for, especially rural, landowners to setup enough solar at home; to be independently powered and get payback from sending power out to the grid. ii seems like this would be far more resilient if regions are interconnected so breaking one line wont shut areas down ... and no burning required. Big Oil is furious.
Here in Brazil, the rains in the south of the country don't stop and 20 percent of the territory of Rio Grande do Sul is destroyed and flooded and what is causing this is the wind wall that is blowing all the moisture to the south. While the rest of the country is suffering a disproportionate drought.I think it's time to stop talking about the reality that it is no longer possible to stop climate change and move on to infrastructure works and removing people from areas at high risk of flooding and cyclones.
I hear the "china isn't doing shit about their polution" almost every time I have a discussion about this. Next time I can just link this video. All your videos are very well put together and interesting. But thisone will help me show a lot of people that China ís doing a lot. They take a different route than we do. And both have their pros and cons. But they are doing a lot. And it wont be long before they pass us. Well done! That said... with our brand new government... they have just announced plans to stop with multiple measuers to combat climate change. They plan to increase demand on fossil fuels, make them cheaper, etc. It's a downright disaster. More and better public transport is one of the few things they are planning to do for the enviroment... But i'll believe it when I see it. Fuel for cars, tractors, trucks, etc is going to get quite a bit cheaper... So our already expencive public transport will get even less competative then it already is... My best guess: we have gone at least 5 years back in reducing the use of fossil fuels if they get to do all what they have planned.
We're all going to die. Well, I'm old anyway and have no kids. I mourn for the Earth's animals which were Adam's (and his descendants -- Our) responsibility to care for. We've really messed that up. Hopefully, humans will die out and animals can live in peace.
Unfortunately David that is our choice. Either we redefine or ditch capitalism, or we head on to 5 degrees warming by 2100. We plan, transition and adapt very quickly or Malthusian economics kicks in. That means collapse
LA SOBREPOBLACION DE SERES HUMANOS NOS ESTA LLEVANDO A PROYECTAR MUCHAS INSTALACIONES ENERGETICAS. REDUCIRLA Y MANTENERLA EN UN NIVEL RAZONABLE SE VUELVE MUY IMPORTANTE.
Nice info. Actually quite alarming and scary when you think about it. The UN's answer is nothing but regulation (see their "Road to regulation" published by their "high level expert group"). My answer is exactly what China is doing. They will NEVER become the fools that we have become. They will never de-industrialize! What happens when Biden or Trump puts trade restrictions and tariffs? China will simply say "we own you stupid fools". No amount of wishing upon unicorns will stop it either. Only, and I do mean ONLY, can a complete vast heavy industrialism like never seen before in the West, could possibly save us from the eventual UN and Chinese assimilation! Don't worry, they won't have to use nuclear bombs, either. 😏
According to the IPCC at 2 degrees celsius warming 99% of the world's coral will disappear, and with them the major protein source for hundreds of millions of people. This is just one example of a catastrophic collapse of biological diversity, I have to wonder if factoring in economic collapse caused by the collapse of biological diversity is getting anyone's attention.
We just had the biggest climate disaster in Brazil this may and nobody is seeing the the big picture, instead of blaming rich fossil fuel companies we are just blaming poor regional governments who didn’t prepare
It would be nice to replace nuclear and fossil fuels with wind and solar. But it is not nice being forced to because of a fake climate crisis hysteria created by a few goofball scientists that altered the temperature graphs to change the long term cooling trend to a warming trend right before the election between a Texas oil candidate and a climate activist. But the scientific types are so much more intelligent of course than the religious right so the enlightened scientific types are allowed to make up their own rules as they go along because they are just so much more intelligent and oh so clever. Mann, Hansen and Schmidt ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-exBsB0cpuB4.htmlsi=0MSsL3gPURHJl8n3
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ocean-warming/?intent=121 We're losing the global heatsink. Temperature rise will accelerate on a planetary scale. Maybe you'll understand it when it's 70ºC and rising.
Everything electric. Where is the electricity going to come from? Certainly not completely unreliable wind and solar. The green movement is not about saving the planet. It’s about controlling the population.
You'd be surprised how much wind, solar and battery-backup have improved in the last five years. A joint study by researchers from Caltech, the Carnegie Institution of Science and Tsinghua University in China finds that wind, solar and battery back-up can already power industrialized nations about 90% of the time, and the technology is still improving. Beware of ubiquitous fossil fuel industry propaganda that says otherwise.
A study published by the International Monetary Fund this year found that switching from coal to renewables will save the world an estimated $78 trillion. Google THE GREAT CARBON ARBITRAGE. A study published in Nature, Sep 1, 2022 (Rennert/Erickson et al) measured the monetized value of damages from C02 at $185 per tonne. We are now emitting over 34 billion tonnes per year, according to OurWorld inData. That's over $6 trillion per year in damages. According to nonpartisan energy and environmental policy consultants Energy Innovation Policy and Technology, meeting the Paris targets would boost U.S. GDP by a cumulative $6.4 trillion by 2035 and by $20 trillion through 2050. While there would be steep costs involved in deploying clean technologies, costs would be higher to continue "business as usual," since power plants, vehicles and appliances all need to be replaced at the end of their lifespans. The EIPT consultants estimate the transformation to clean tech would cost us $2.5 trillion more than business as usual investments by 2035 and $4 trillion more by 2050. Yet the transition's benefits would outweigh the costs by a factor of 2.5 by 2035 and fivefold by 2050, even before accounting for the substantial health benefits associated with cleaner air (an additional $4 trillion in savings over 30 years). A 2018 report by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, managed by the World Resources Institute, concludes that acting on climate change would deliver a direct economic gain of $26 trillion globally through 2030 compared to a business as usual approach and may generate 65 million new low-carbon jobs globally. A report by Rewiring America, a non-profit consultancy, projects that electrifying all aspects of the U.S. economy over 15 years will produce 25 million good-paying jobs and save average households up to $2000 per year in energy costs. Air pollution nearly doubles the risk of dementia in the U.S., according to a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A study in Cardiovascular Research found that U.S. air pollution causes about 3.6 million premature deaths per year. Wind and solar are the cheapest energy sources on earth, according to every energy auditing institution on earth. The average energy payback (including manufacture, transport, erection, maintenence and decommissioning) of a wind turbine is 8 months, according to Oregon State University. The payback for a solar farm is two years. A gas plant's payback ranges from 7.5-15 years. A coal plant, 22 years. A standard nuclear plant, 40 years. A joint study by researchers from Caltech, the Carnegie Institution of Science and Tsinghua University in China finds that wind, solar and battery back-up can already power industrialized nations about 90% of the time, and the technology is still improving. Beware of ubiquitous fossil fuel industry propaganda that says otherwise.
but its not. if the country was, then the nation wouldnt still be the largest polluter in the world by a significant factor compared to the second dirtiest country, or even the second most populated nation.
It feels like we should be able to do more. It feels like my actions are negligible for this particular woe. It feels like humanity's mediocre response is pretty on par for the course. It's gonna get bad, and we'll say there's nothing one could have done. The time of heroes and villains will come once more to navigate humanity through a great filter that would have been completely avoidable for creatures more consciencious and rational than us.
Intensifying heat waves, droughts, floods, and forest fires. A 17-year decline in the degree of democracy globally. Epidemics of major chronic diseases, anxiety, and depression--even in rich countries. Global debt at 320%, with dwindling natural resources to pay it off. A 69% decline in biodiversity globally--just since 1970. Ecological overshoot at 75+% of Earth's sustainable carrying and we've already breached six of nine of Earth's safe planetary boundaries. Meanwhile, the Journal of Petroleum Engineering predicts we will reach peak a net-energy peak for liquid oils not in the distant future but next year! (due to rapidly increasing energy needed for energy extraction). PFAS "forever chemicals" are now pervasive in water worldwide. We just didn't learn from the collapse of previous civilizations that a large industrialized civilization isn't sustainable.
It seems that someone has stopped thinking altogether. Carbon is the source of ALL life on earth. CO2 in the atmosphere has been falling over eons, during the last Glacial Maximum it fell to 180ppm, slightly above the extinction level of 150 ppm. Since humans have been using fossil fuels (made from carbon removed from the atmosphere) the atmospheric levels have been moving back towards safe levels. Carbon negativity is dangerous.
- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago and the cancer will go away - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us 1000 years to the past of the universe. Today May 15, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 119 thousand years ago. On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past. On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million years in the past. On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past. On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past. The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago. Anyone who does not believe that the climate changed for the reason I mentioned should wait for cancer to disappear very soon because of this reverse movement, I will explain: the human body's immune system will be stimulated, activated and stronger as a result of this reverse process, which results in the disappearance of the cancer. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA, teacher of mathematics and a researcher in number theory.
Let's be truly honest. To mitigate the feared climate future, standards of living and human populations will have to fall dramatically. The public will never accept that. So far, it all seems unnecessary anyways. Nevertheless, "progressive" leaders have gone a long way to lowering our standard of living in a variety of ways already.
"Nevertheless, "progressive" leaders have gone a long way to lowering our standard of living in a variety of ways already." Actually, at least in the US, the economy does better when Democrats are in office.
