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www.theguardian.com

World’s biggest economies pumping billions into fossil fuels in poor nations

G20 countries spent $142bn in three years to expand operations despite a G7 pledge to stop doing so, study finds
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Despite their commitments on the climate, the world’s biggest economies have continued to finance the expansion of fossil fuels in poor countries. The G20 group of developed and developing economies, and the multilateral development banks they fund, put $142bn into fossil fuel developments overseas from 2020 to 2022. “While rich countries continue to drag their feet and claim they can’t afford to fund a globally just energy transition, countries like Canada, Korea, Japan and the US appear to have no shortage of public funds for climate-wrecking fossil fuels,” said Claire O’Manique, a public finance analyst at campaigning group Oil Change International.
 
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eevee-fan said:
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This old Texas wind farm now makes more power with fewer turbines

An old wind farm in Texas just got a second life, and its capacity has gone from 160 megawatts (MW) to 182 MW.
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Gets better through time vs a fossil fuel drilling site where the supply is gone and it becomes an abandoned toxic site.
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And here is an example of an old abandoned oil well. Though, in this case, maybe stick a natural gas generator there and turn it into a DCFC site. Anyone from Rivian seeing this opportunity for a Rivian Adventure DCFC site? ;)

www.yahoo.com

Concerns grow over old oil wells leaking at Montana national park — and officials are racing to stop them

"What's it going to take for us to wake up?"
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eevee-fan said:
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Watch the solar eclipse impact the US grid in real time

A total solar eclipse will bring complete darkness to 12 US states today – watch live to see its effect on solar power and the grid across all 50 US states.
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TX... stupid is as stupid does...
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"complete darkness"

The author has obviously never been in totality.
Totality brings a kind of twilight, which is definitively not complete darkness.
 
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www.theguardian.com

Biden races to commit billions to climate action as election looms

Biden administration hopes funding will spur enduring cuts to planet-heating emissions no matter who is in White House
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In recent weeks, large tracts of funding has been announced by the administration to help overcome some of the thorniest and esoteric challenges the world faces in driving down carbon pollution, seeding the promise of everything from the advent of zero-emissions concrete to low-pollution food production, including mac and cheese and ice-cream, to driving the uptake of solar panels and electric stoves in low-income households. “We are seeing billions of dollars going into really tricky parts of the energy transition and if there’s momentum behind this we will be measuring the impacts many years in the future,” said Melissa Lott, a professor at Columbia University’s climate school. “I would expect these investments to have knock-on impacts well outside the US’s borders.”
 
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Raffy.Roma said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1779340140470747555

I am new to this thread but did you know that the usage of coal is increasing and is still the top source of electricity, supplying over a third of world electric power?

I mean can you confirm this or not?
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That's clearly clickbait. The key word is "capacity", not consumption. There might be more power plants in total, but not all of them are running at full capacity. Also notice that there's no drop-off during the covid years, when we all know that consumption of everything was down due to everyone staying at home. Try to find the statistic for coal "consumption", and it should paint a very different picture.
 
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Oil4AsphaultOnly said:
That's clearly clickbait. The key word is "capacity", not consumption. There might be more power plants in total, but not all of them are running at full capacity. Also notice that there's no drop-off during the covid years, when we all know that consumption of everything was down due to everyone staying at home. Try to find the statistic for coal "consumption", and it should paint a very different picture.
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www.iea.org

Demand – Coal 2023 – Analysis - IEA

Coal 2023 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
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According to this article by IEA (International Energy Agency) it looks like till 2023 the coal demand increased with a new trend starting from this year 2024.

Global coal demand is expected to peak in 2023 and decrease thereafter

"For our forecast period until 2026 we expect to see a trend emerging of declining worldwide coal demand, starting in 2024."
 
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So it maybe? clickbait but is actually accurate when it comes to consumption.
The variable is 2024 which is predicted to be flat to decreasing but it is only a prediction. We could see growth in 2024 and on and on.
The fact is that the 2 most populous nations in the world are relatively poor so lots of room for growth and relatively little natural gas. They represent 35% of the world's population.
And then the 4th most populated country is rapidly increasing coal consumption - a 9 fold increase in 20 years and 33% in 1 year (although magnified by pandemic effect).
This train is really unstoppable without something horrible (war, population decimation, etc). We struggle in the US with lots of reserves and money - how are India and China ever going to come close?
 
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David_Cary said:
So it maybe? clickbait but is actually accurate when it comes to consumption.
The variable is 2024 which is predicted to be flat to decreasing but it is only a prediction. We could see growth in 2024 and on and on.
The fact is that the 2 most populous nations in the world are relatively poor so lots of room for growth and relatively little natural gas. They represent 35% of the world's population.
And then the 4th most populated country is rapidly increasing coal consumption - a 9 fold increase in 20 years and 33% in 1 year (although magnified by pandemic effect).
This train is really unstoppable without something horrible (war, population decimation, etc). We struggle in the US with lots of reserves and money - how are India and China ever going to come close?
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You are right. In fact the article by IEA that I mentioned above said that India, Asean Countries and mainly China are the Countries demanding more coal.
This is a problem that should be solved by COP, if possible.
If not possible the UN should intervene IMO.
 
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Raffy.Roma said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1779340140470747555

I am new to this thread but did you know that the usage of coal is increasing and is still the top source of electricity, supplying over a third of world electric power?

I mean can you confirm this or not?
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I noticed in the reported graph that in 2024 China drove two thirds of new coal power additions since 2015, the date of the Paris Agreement for Climate.

So not a clickbait.
 
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