Daily Energy Standup Episode #216 – Balancing Climate Goals, Renewable Challenges, and Environmental Impact

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DAVID BLACKMON: Britain’s Prime Minister Places Himself At The Tip Of The Climate Spear

Structural Defects Delay Japan’s First Floating Offshore Wind Farm

Wyoming Conservationists Worry Fed Rule Will Let Turbines Kill More Eagles

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Stuart Turley: [00:00:15] Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Energy News Beat Daily Standup. My name’s Stuart Turley, President, CEO, Sandstone Group. I’ll tell you what. We got an action packed show today. Michael’s on assignment. He’s out having fun tonight. So today is Tuesday, September 26, and it is going to be a great day for everybody. But I’ll tell you what, if Michael was 18 years old, YouTuber influencer, he would say, smash that button like us, leave reviews, ask questions. I’m getting some fantastic questions from folks and we want to answer all of them. We’re going to start reading them on the air. So this is pretty cool. And just want to give a shout out to those that have already Sinnerman. We’re going to start reading them and having answers and giving feedback. We want to hear from you. So let’s go ahead and start around with the show here. First one is a shout out to David Blackman. Britain’s prime minister places himself at the tip of the climate spear. I’ll tell you what, he did go out last week, the Britain’s prime minister, and he said that he’s not he’s going to push out the climate goals because fiscally it is not sustainable right now. David’s got some other great points in there. So now we’re going to go to also covering China says fossil fuel phaseout is unrealistic. This is a huge article. Next we have coming around the corner Wyoming. And conservationists worry Fed rule will let turbines kill more eagles. This one has several articles that I picked up over the web. And this is almost just it is not almost. It is infuriating that the renewable hypocrisy is killing the animals and that just drives me nuts. When I interviewed Megan Lampe from she’s the fisheries liaison with Sea Side Sea Freeze, a sure sign it has been throttled. I know it’s been throttle. We know who’s throttling us. And it was a Zen tastic interview. So let’s go to the next one. The idea of green growth losing traction among climate policy researchers. A survey of nearly 800 academics reveals there’s a lot of meat into this one, but there’s also a lot of different things that are going on with how the green movement is rolling out. That is not necessarily the right way and it’s causing these problem. Next one out, we’re going to talk a bit about it at Westinghouse Long duration energy Storage solution selected for Department of Energy program in Alaska, then to Alaska, Love Alaska. We’re going to talk about that one here in a sec. And then the last one, structural defects delay Japan’s first floating offshore wind farm. This goes back to the way that renewable engineering is not sound fiscally. It’s not capable. And if you are in the energy, the renewable space, I want to talk to you. This is not slamming rocks. It’s something that I’m not willing to talk about. [00:03:38][203.5]

[00:03:39] So let’s go to David Blackmon. And again, last week we talked about it, but he asserted himself last week signaling the his predecessor, Boris Johnson, that last week proposing to delay and modify some of the worst of them in a major address to the nation. So he had to do that because they were about to leak. I talked to David about that. He proposed a revisions to include delaying the ban on the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars from 2030 to 2035. So that’s only a five year slip. But yet, did you hear the heads popping? POW, pow, pow, pow, pow. I mean, they did not like that. But when you take a look at EVs, their affordability and being able to get everything, there’s another article on energy news today that the used car TV market is just deteriorating. [00:04:40][61.3]

[00:04:41] People can’t even afford the used EVs. And the expense is between 5020 $2,000 to replace the batteries at the time they start becoming used. So I applaud the Prime Minister that the political motive, the motivation that he had for making the policy changes was to put some space between his Conservative party and the Socialist Britain, British Labor. Party. As if on cue, the late labor leaders quickly obliged him, announcing less than 24 hours after his speech. If elected to a majority in upcoming elections, their party would quickly to bat the tennis ball back over the net and restore Johnson’s unattainable goals. It’s pretty sad when the consumers are at the they’re going to get hit with the bat. And it’s not the political parties, it’s the consumers. So let’s go to the next one here. [00:05:44][62.8]

[00:05:44] China says fossil fuel phaseout is unrealistic. And I gotta hand it to China. China is going to they’re the big white striped ape in the room. They’re going to do what they want when they want to do it. However, the only way the reason they are adding wind and solar is because they’re adding they need to add all forms of electricity. You’re not seeing the amount of generation that they’re able to do is being a percentage change. They’re still using a ton of coal for a month. Whatever the number is, they’re still using all the natural gas they can get. And so China is the world’s biggest consumer of coal and the largest importer of crude oil. Despite soaring renewable power, installations continues to consume power of growing volumes of coal, oil and natural gas. Because the difference of all of the wind farms and solar farms is just adding to the power that they need dramatically. [00:06:54][69.8]

[00:06:55] And it’s their demand is outstripping anything that they can do. So 366 gigawatts in new coal generation accounting for some 68% of the new coal capacity as of 2022. That is astounding. My question to everybody is, no matter what the United States does, China and India, rightfully so, and they are doing what they need to do for China or for India first. There’s nothing the United States can do that can eliminate any change in the climate change. All we’re doing is hurting the U.S. consumers. So as a US consumer, we do not need to be paying this much. Let’s go to a natural gas. Let’s go to nuclear. And let’s make sure that we give the lowest kilowatt per hour to all citizens of the United States. I love when love solar, except when the hypocrisy kicks in. [00:08:03][68.0]

[00:08:04] Wyoming Conservative conservationists worry that the Fed rule will let turbines kill more eagles. This is sad. The rule is proposed by the Fish and Wildlife Service is designed to streamline the permitting process that wind developers go through for Eagle. For how many eagle they take refers to the killing or seriously disrupting the lives of eagles. So it’s okay for the wind manufacturers to kill all of the wildlife. And as I talked about with my interview with Megan, they’re killing the whales. And we talked about with her how they’re doing it. And it’s the sonar of the offshore mapping out that is absolutely destroying the whales in their drive floating up on the beach. So if we have permitting problems through all sectors of the energy, we have impossible problems to solve in the oil and gas in the regulatory issues for wind, solar. But yet they’re going to speed any wind farms that go through and kill animals. I’m missing this totally. Violations of the act could lead to prosecution and criminal sanctions after the bald eagle was removed from the Endangered Species Act. And and it’s like. But when you take a look we’ve talked about this before. There’s a lizard with billions of animals, millions all over the central part of the U.S. and yet they’re now calling it endangered. They still say there’s too much red tape and too much bureaucracy. But I got to give a shout out to the Cowboy State Daily for coming up with this article. [00:10:00][116.0]

[00:10:01] So this feeds right on into the next article, an idea of green growth losing traction among climate. Seeing researchers. A survey of nearly 800 academics reveals here some really big points, and that is we ran an article a little while ago about a climate scientist who had to falsify his reporting just to get his funding. He then turned around and came out and said I was wrong. That is a big admission and I’m very happy that he did do that. But here this comes around the corner, the OEC de, which is the in the European Commission, when it comes to the European Green Deal, we stick to our growth strategy, von der Linde says. So the old OECD has promised to, quote, strengthen their efforts to pursue green growth and strategies, acknowledging that green and growth can go hand in hand while the World Bank is calling for inclusive green growth. Where there is greening, growth is necessary, efficient and affordable. Meanwhile, the EU has framed green growth as this is critical a bias to sustain employment levels and secure the resources needed to increase public welfare, transforming production and consumption in ways that reconcile increasing GDP with environmental limits. [00:11:39][98.4]

[00:11:40] This is frightening. And let’s add one more article on this that was just released today, and that is that the biggest iron ore producer, the world’s fourth biggest iron ore producer, stops buying Carbon Offset Shell and bought Fortescue Metals. Two major companies are backing away from the carbon offset plans. Carbon offsets don’t do anything except go to the bottom line and get passed on to consumers. So when you take a look at all of these stories that are all in different articles in all different places, they’re coming up to one thing and that is there’s a problem with renewables and there’s a problem with everyone going ahead and saying, we have to go this way. We want to go that way. This is not a discussion of whether or not we want to go to renewables and we want to go to those, but they’re not sustainable with the technology currently being implemented. [00:12:49][68.9]

[00:12:50] So as another story coming around the corner, Westinghouse Duration Energy Storage Solution, selected for Department of Energy Program in Alaska, this one kind of again shows how the thinking process goes with the DOE. And when you take a look at this project, Westinghouse Electric Company announced today the Department of Energy has selected deploying a 1.2 gigawatt utility scale long duration energy storage in Healy, Alaska. Okay, This is a direct quote. Increasing access to affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is one of my top goals as governor. Having an effective and affordable way to store energy has been the choke point for renewable energy technology by providing long duration and energy storage. This project will help make us better utilize the renewable resources that are abundant in Alaska. Okay, let’s go through this here a little bit. This is a storage project and they’re wanting to put in wind and solar. I have been to Alaska several time. I have been out on the ice. It is cold at 20 below when the offshore wind is not Now work on. I’ve been there in the winter and it is not going to work. Solar panels are not going to work. So if you add storage to this mix, what’s it going to store? And I would like to tell me, anybody in Alaska contact me at this show. Questions@EnergyNewsBeat.com. And we want to have a discussion because I love Alaska. I absolutely do. And I’ve even been you can see the bear picture right over my shoulder for the YouTube visitors. And I will go from here to that door taking pictures. The only bear hunting I’ve ever done is with a camera. Pretty stupid, but it works and I live now. That being said, you cannot deliver these things. So you’re saying the misguiding is coming around? You’re saying the idea being that 800 people are now admitting it. You’re seeing the ESG folks are now coming off of this. And here’s another example in Japan that wind farms are having some serious problems. The go Japan’s go to floating Wind Farm Consortium has postpone the commissioning of the go to city offshore wind power generation project for two years, following the discovery of defects in the floating structures to be used for the project. Any project that is being pushed out for two years for their first one, it’s a 16.8 megawatt floating wind farm. It will be a Hitachi 2.1 megawatt in turbines installed off Go to Sea and Nagasaki Prefecture. They’ve got three mooring. So when you take a look at this, the amount of wind that they’re going to be able to generate cannot be the 16.8 megawatts, because even according to Meredith Angwin shorting the grid author, when you put renewables on a grid, you have to add 180% of capacity to keep it balanced instead of the normal 20% for repairs, downtime, emergencies. [00:16:40][230.2]

[00:16:41] So this divide the 16.8 megawatts by 180, and that’s what you’re going to see in megawatt output. So with that, we are going to have an absolutely wonderful day. And I’ll tell you what, go check out our substack. Go check out our energynewsbeat.com. And we are so thrilled with the feedback that we’re getting. And again, this is all about delivering the lowest kilowatt per hour to all citizens of the world with the least amount of impact on the environment through fiscal sustainability as well as being able to not print money. If you can answer all of those things, we need to use all forms of energy. [00:17:34][52.8]

[00:17:35] So with that, thank you all very much. Don’t forget to share. Tell your dog share with everybody. We sure appreciate everybody. Thanks. And I’ll see you tomorrow. [00:17:35][0.0][1031.7]

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