Energy - March 2023
Energy – March 2023
What is sustainability and 100% renewable energy? Is it just politics, wishful thinking, anti-corporate activism, or actual meaningful work in progress? If you research a bit about energy usage and green technologies, you can find many smart papers. However, when compared to current energy sources, can wind and solar power really compensate, especially considering that cars will also convert to electric vehicles?
The other day, I walked by a Tesla and a bumper sticker caught my eye: "powered by fossil fuel." In preparation for this letter, I searched for global energy data to understand the current status of what drives the world.
And here the grow of the World population in the same time period.
And here the users, on a global scale:
If we look at this in perspective, Germany with its policies and green agenda claims to be the Leader in Climate change, perhaps but its impact is about as much as one coal plant in China? And if you look at the traditional biomass, for 8 billion people that may consume the entire food chain? Why does the World not develop a scenario that allows the use of all forms of resources, until we know what is doable and sustainable without sacrificing the planets beauty?
Look at some of the statistics here, interesting that 2 of the top 3 build the most Coal plants in the last 10 years, while signing the Paris Climate agreement? Seriously, you decide?
What are renewables:
Call Solar and Wind – once the Material used to build and operate are renewable, currenlty they are not even recyclable? And Landmass will be non usable for a couple million square miles. Battery for storage, is non-renewable, and only partial recyclable?
Geothermal – yes, as long as the Water is in a closed loop and the Earth temperature long term is stable?
Hydropower – limited and mostly used to 90%; lucky who can use it.
Ocean Energy – on a large scale a pipe dream?
Biomass – creates emissions, but at a lower rate, and uses natural resources used for other means?
All of them are good for certain applications, and should be used to its full extent, however they have big shoes to fill. Here the article if you like to read. (one of many)
Nuclear a renewable, it has to be at one point in time if we want to move away from Oil and Gas. A good opinion here
Carbon Capture and Reuse – couple of million trees might have the same impact, but who wants to be a tree planter, but I take you can make all into a benefit? Here from ASME, Battelle Solutions, and Exxon Mobile.
Next issue, will report on the many Bloggers and advisory Companies, who are much smarter than all of us when it comes to saving the planet.
Here is the growth of the world population in the same time period:
And here are the global users:
If we look at this in perspective, Germany, with its policies and green agenda, claims to be a leader in climate change. However, its impact is about as much as one coal plant in China. And if we look at the traditional biomass, it may consume the entire food chain for the 8 billion people on the planet. Why doesn't the world develop a scenario that allows the use of all forms of resources until we know what is feasible and sustainable without sacrificing the planet's beauty?
Look at some of the statistics here, interesting that 2 of the top 3 build the most Coal plants in the last 10 years, while signing the Paris Climate agreement? Seriously, you decide?
What are the renewable options?:
Solar and Wind – possible once the material used to build and operate are renewable.. currently they are not even recyclable. Also Landmass will be non usable for a couple million square miles. Battery for storage, is non-renewable, and only partially recyclable?
Geothermal – yes, as long as the Water is in a closed loop and the Earth temperature is stable for a long term period of time.
Hydropower – limited and mostly used to 90%; Those who can use it are lucky.
Ocean Energy – on a large scale? Is this a pipe dream?
Biomass – creates emissions, but at a lower rate, and uses natural resources used for other means?
All of them are good for certain applications, and should be used to its full extent, however they have big shoes to fill. Here the article if you like to read. (one of many)
Nuclear a renewable, it has to be at one point in time if we want to move away from Oil and Gas. A good opinion here
Carbon Capture and Reuse – couple of million trees might have the same impact, but who wants to be a tree planter, but I take you can make all into a benefit? Here from ASME, Battelle Solutions, and Exxon Mobile.
Next issue, will report on the many bloggers and advisory companies, who are much smarter than all of us when it comes to saving the planet.
