Comment on “Base Load Power” a Convenient Myth for Fossil Fools by Charles...
Bates, when making a point using numbers at least attempt to use plausible numbers. According to Forbes and the Paulson Institute, China plans to build 7 nuclear power plants per year for the next 20...
View ArticleComment on “Base Load Power” a Convenient Myth for Fossil Fools by kap55
Well, sorry, but just because China is abandoning coal, that doesn’t mean it’s abandoning baseload — by which I mean dispatchable — power. China is going full speed ahead with wind and solar, but it’s...
View ArticleComment on China Greenhouse Gases May have Already Peaked by A Green Road...
Reblogged this on <a href="https://agreenroad.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/china-greenhouse-gases-may-have-already-peaked/" rel="nofollow">A Green Road Daily News</a>.
View ArticleComment on “Base Load Power” a Convenient Myth for Fossil Fools by Gingerbaker
“China has a pollution problem and is solving it by building nuclear plants, the schedule is about one a week for the next twenty years.” What a crock of ****. You can not get anything right, can you,...
View ArticleComment on China Greenhouse Gases May have Already Peaked by robertscribbler
Well, that's pretty good news. If the world managed to match that near 2 percent emissions decline rate then we might have a decent shot at around 2 C warming this Century. Looks like global emissions...
View ArticleComment on John Oliver on Trump, Texas, and Yes, Climate Conspiracy Theories...
Where are the moderate GOP opinions? I’d think today that dog mostly doesn’t hunt anymore.
View ArticleComment on “Base Load Power” a Convenient Myth for Fossil Fools by...
Ginger’s right. China had 378 GWe of renewable power generation in 2013 (far more today) and had just 58 GWe of nuclear generation as of late 2015. Though nuclear is expected to ramp up to 150 GWe,...
View ArticleComment on The Unexpected We Expect: Planning in the Age of Climate Change by...
Interesting analogy concerning the rear view mirror. How can we predict the road ahead if the climate is changing in ways we cannot really predict ? The insurance carriers have a similar dilemma. In...
View ArticleComment on “Base Load Power” a Convenient Myth for Fossil Fools by kap55
You seem to be forgetting the difference between capacity and generation, and you seem not to recall that most of China's renewable electricity is dispatchable hydro, which can often act as baseload.
View ArticleComment on China Greenhouse Gases May have Already Peaked by indy222
China massively over-built – “ghost cities” and all the rest. It is entirely to be expected that we’d see a pullback in energy use of all kinds. Just like stock markets overshoot on the up and...
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