Dan Sideen
@sideen_dan
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Retired engineer (P. Eng, MBA), with various interests, including science & technology, climate change, history and politics. And motorcycles, And cars.
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It finally happened. Germany's CO2 emissions intensity is worse than Poland's!
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German CO2 emissions are an incredible 22X those of next door France. Surely they will see the light soon. Or not.
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And the German nightmare continues. No solar, wind at 1.5% capacity and CO2 intensity at an incredibly bad 711 gm/CO2.
Surely the Germans will soon come to their senses?
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Take a look at Germany. To get through twelve hours of darkness without fossil fuels or nuclear, they would need 50GW x 12 hr = 600 GWh of storage.
At a generous $USD 500/kWh for batteries, thats $USD 300 billion.
And that's with wind at 11% of capacity - it can go much lower
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Greenpeace is not 'good' information source
Nuclear is not a 'green' energy source.
Giving dangerous
#NuclearEnergy
a green label in the EU taxonomy will make the waste problem worse and actively divert investments away from real solutions like energy savings, energy storage and renewables.
#COP26
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Ukraine, in the middle of a war, has a cleaner grid than "green energy leader" Germany.
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How would the US react if an Iranian drone was within a few miles of the US?
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Wind is providing 6% of power, running at 3% of capacity, and solar is asleep on a low demand Saturday night.
How can the normally smart Germans possibly think they can run a modern industrial society on renewables?
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I hate to sound like a broken record, but nuclear + hydro powered Ontario's grid emissions intensity is 1/21 that of coal, gas, biomass & wind powered Germany. In other words, Germany is 2100% dirtier. That should be a crime
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Germany is missing from electricitymap data.
Are they embarrassed about their CO2 levels?
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Remind me again how Germany thinks they can run an industrialized country on renewables?
It's early Sunday morning, with power requirements at their lowest level. No solar & wind at <16% of electricity
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For those that think Austraila, particularly South Australia, is well on the way to 100% renewables, here is SA. No solar & next to no wind at the moment. Batteries are supplying 0.22% of their power
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That "renewables can replace Russian gas" theory is looking a little weak at the moment
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I gobsmacked & disappointed by the number of people in this thread who continue to consider the
#Energiewende
a success
It finally happened. Germany's CO2 emissions intensity is worse than Poland's!
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Wind at 7% of capacity in Germany, solar is MIA. Even biomass is providing more power than wind+solar. CO2 intensity >500gm/KWh, thanks to lignite & Russian gas.
Surely someone in the German leadership will come to their senses on the disaster that is Energiewende?
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How did the otherwise very smart Germans ever think they could run a heavily industrialized country on renewables? Even on a low usage weekend, wind + solar are only providing 6% of the power on the grid. And with CO2 intensity of 738 g/kWh
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Wind in Britain is providing under 5% of power this evening. Even a 20 fold expansion in capacity wouldn't keep the lights on. It would just further blight the country.
You simply can't run a modern country on renewable. Why doesn't everyone realize that?
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How much worse can it get in Germany? Wind is at 1.5% of capacity and producing only 1.5% of Germany's electricity
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How much additional wind + solar + storage would you need to eliminate coal+ gas from this grid? (Not to mention the additional future loads from the electrification of heating & transport)
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Here's the problem in Ontario. During extended high pressure periods, both summer & winter, there is no wind, so we need to fire up gas to meet the summer A/C & winter heating load. Storage won't do it. We need more nuclear
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@AmerIndivis
@janearraf
@realDonaldTrump
@RepAdamSchiff
@nytimes
@SpeakerPelosi
@MittRomney
@BenSasse
@SenatorLankford
Truth is in short supply in the Middle East. As are good guys
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Despite all the "whataboutism" & deflection in this thread, the cold, hard facts are that there is not now, or likely ever to be a technically & economically feasible way of making a large wind + solar grid reliable.
Bad news y'all:
Someone on Twitter has just informed me that the sun doesn't shine at night and the wind doesn't always blow.
Time to call off this whole renewable energy experiment.
It was great while it lasted.
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Never take post about battery capacity seriously when the only quote GW and not GWh.
They either don't understand energy or are being deliberately misleading
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Jesus, another windless night in Germany. Maybe they will see the light now?
And when are they shutting the next nuclear plant?
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"Asked about Hydro-Québec's possible move back to nuclear power, Guilbeault, a former Greenpeace activist, said he found no problem with it."
He has seen the light!
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Cutting down trees & processing them into pellets & shipping them half way around the world to burn to produce electricity is an environmental travisty
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There was a problem with every solar farm in the USA about 6:00 PM last night. Don't know exactly what was going on, but this seems to happen every day about that time. And sometimes, even during the day, at unpredictible times. Very scary if you're relying on that power.
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@CoalDead
Oddly enough, whenever emissions in Germany get real bad, actual data suspiciously isn't available
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@AkshatRathi
Article says it will create 11 GW of additional power, equal to 10 nuclear plants.
Not even close to being true. With a 20% capacity factor, it's about 2 nuclear plants, and not necessarily when the power is needed
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A bright, sunny, calm day in Ontario. Solar is near it's maximum capacity & is producing 2.5% of our power. Wind is MIA. Gas is just idling in case of clouds
Thankfully, nuclear & hydro are keeping our emissions at an astounding 22 gm/kWh.
This is how you decarbonize electricity!
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Renewables are providing a whopping 5% of German electricity. (Biomass doesn't count). Still want to close those nuclear plants?
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Noooooobody beats our lo CO2 grid - 20 gm/kWh. Thanks to nuclear & hydro
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Hmm. Renewables is what broke our global energy mix
'A shift to renewables will mend our broken global energy mix and offer hope to millions of people already suffering from the impact of climate change.'
#renewables
#ClimateCrisis
#IPCC
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Never trust tweets from people who don't understand the units for power & energy
Lazard, 2021.
2020 costs (per MW/hr):
Solar 29 euros
Land wind 33 euros
CCS gas 52 euros
Coal 94 euros
Nuclear 145 euros
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Jesus, I'm glad I don't live in Germany. No solar, wind <5% and CO2 near 500 gm/KWh. And it can only get worse, and more expensive when they shut more nuclear plants down.
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Completely (and deliberately) missing the point that if you have enough nuclear to cover times when wind + solar are absent, wind + solar are a waste of money. There are no fuel or other operational savings when throttling nuclear
@Antares55620255
@dorfman_p
It is a terrible backup for wind and solar. Try to run a reactor to match the purple and orange production here.
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Actually , it's a terrific idea. No CO2, no SO2, no particulates & people get to stay warm & enjoy lighting. Wind & solar are totally useless in the arctic & there isn't any hydro.
Building a nuclear power plant that floats and putting it in the Arctic is a terrible idea.
RT if you agree.
#NuclearTitanic
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A brutally cold night in Ontario. No sun, but some wind. Nuclear, hydro & gas means we can export some power to Québec for their high space heating load.
It is inconceivable how anyone could think we could run on only renewables. And that's before adding a lot of heat pumps
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Saying nuclear plants need backup and solar/wind do not need backup is laughably false
All nuclear reactors are "perilous" and "precarious" because they need back-up power to cool the reactors and waste. Renewables do not.
#go100re
#nogtareactor
#nonewnuclear
#Ukraine
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Even with no sun & little wind, Ontario's grid emissions intensity is 1/10th that of Germany. (And our electricity is a lot cheaper)
Can you see why?
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Ever notice how renewable energy fanatics include hydro in their statements while implying it's wind & solar. (70% of Iceland's electricity comes from hydro)
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This is just a blatant lie. There is no storage technology that is even remotely capable of making a wind + solar powered grid reliable
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A BBC commentator just said the electricity crisis in Britain is due to:
- low wind
- gas shortage
- broken interconnector
Perhaps they need more nuclear?
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This solar plant has a density of 50W/m2, which is awful. It will produce (at 20% CF) 1.3 GWh per year.
To get a 10% return (depreciation, opex & ROI) on $700 million, need to sell every MWH every day for $57.90.
Probably make more money growing corn
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Yep, no reason we can't run Ontario's grid on wind + solar+ hydro+ Québec imports. Oh, wait....
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Interesting.
Power density: 38W/M2. Which is awful
Cost: $1500/MW. Which is good
Capacity factor: 20%. Which is generous
Cost per actual capacity: $7500. Which is worse than nuclear
Life expectancy: ~20 years.
Why do we build these things?
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For those who think France's nuclear problems are worse than Germany's gas problem, (that's you - OCAA) have a look. 58% of France's electricity is nuclear, with 73 gm/kWh of CO2. Germany is 52% coal with CO2 at 486 gm/kWh. And it ain't winter yet.
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Sorry, but we don't want the entire world going back to subsistence farming. We just spent 300 years getting away from everyone being a poor, unhealthy, short life span peasant
We are opting and urging the global community to embrace nature base farming systems because,climate change will make food security and poverty reduction even more challenging in the future.
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Hey,
@ElectricityMaps
, care to weigh in? Some folks in this thread don't think your data is very accurate.
@stepien_przemek
even called it fake data
It finally happened. Germany's CO2 emissions intensity is worse than Poland's!
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@Dr_Keefer
Agreed. Why would anyone want to bet the farm on a battery miracle when we have nuclear power - a solution that is proven to provide huge amounts of reliable, low CO2 power?
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@LuboTalks
@FriendsOScience
So when you predict that increased CO2 concentration will cause:
-dryer weather
-wetter weather
-hotter weather
-colder weather
-more rain
-less rain
It's pretty hard to be proven wrong
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@OttawaCitizen
So if Canada did eliminate this requirement, unvacinated Canadian truckers still couldn't enter the US, but unvacinated US drivers (and there are a lot of them) could bring loads into Canada. So Americans taking jobs from Canadians. They didn't think this through, did they?
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I may sound like a broken record, but "long duration storage" should be measured in GWh, not just GW. The article talks about 4 hour duration. In reality, you need days of storage. So three days requires 1728 GWh of storage - a totally impractical, if not impossible amount
Research: 24GW of long duration energy storage needed for net zero UK grid
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Hey Germany - see your problem yet?
Your CO2 intensity is 580 gm/kWh , ours I bnuclear powered Ontario is 25 gm/kWh. That's 23 times as high.
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@davidakin
@gmbutts
News flash: It wasn't foreign money that defeated Harper. We were just sick of the guy.
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A bright, sunny, early Fall day in Ontario. Wind is MIA & both wind + solar are supplying less than 1% of our power. Thank god for nuclear. And hydro.
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No solar, dick all (2.5% of capacity) wind. Thankfully, nuclear & hydro are keeping the grid reliable & at a world beating 33 gm of CO2 per kwh.
And some idiots think we can run a grid on wind + solar!
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This is how you double your electricity production while maintaining reliability & low emissions
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@NRDC
@Charmin
@standearth
The Canadian boreal forest is fine. According to Wikipedia,
"As of 2005, Canada as a whole has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the dawn of European settlement"
And since 2005, the amount of trees cut for paper has declined substantially
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On a low demand Sunday evening there is no sun & little wind in Germany. As a result, emissions are an eye popping 538 gm/kWh. I guess they didn't spend enough money on Energiewende.
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For all my Australian followers. Read this & weep. Thanks to nuclear & hydro
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@HannoKlausmeier
Who cares about renewables vs nuclear share? The goal is a low CO2 grid. And on that metric, Germany is an abject failure
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@ShuttleCDRKelly
Not to mention that all Space Force members can only get to space in a Russian Soyuz.
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Disregard any mention of renewabke energy storage when it is measured in power units, instead of energy units. Especially from a politician
Today we've set a renewable energy storage target of 6.3GW by 2035.
It's big - the biggest in the country in fact.
Here's what it means 👇
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How can any rational person think Australia can run their grid entirely on RE? Wind is <4% of capacity. And before you accuse me of cherry picking, remember demand & supply MUST ALWAYS MATCH EXACTLY
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Calling Drax conversion from coal to wood "one of Europe's largest decarbonization projects" is laughable. Chopping down trees, processing them & shipping across the ocean is an environmental travesty. Even lowly CNN shoukd know better.
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The Germans sure don't like ElectricityMaps. Wonder why?
@sideen_dan
@papasima
@EmberClimate
@dorfman_p
But be aware, EM is very much cherrypicking it's CO2 values for single generators. Energy Charts is much better
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Good think it's a lo demand Sunday or Germany's 500 gm/KWh grid could be over 600. Whether or not you believe in climate change, this is disgraceful
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For all those that hate the emissions in Alberta & who think Germany is a climate leader, Alberta's electricity emissions are lower than Germany's
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Does anybody really care what Greenpeace thinks or says anymore?
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Oh, did I mention that they would also need enough wind + solar to ensure that the 600 GWh is fully charged. Every night.
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Almost spilled my morning coffee when I read this. Germany preaching the end of coal? Really?
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Disappointing, but not surprising that the Greens oppose the only energy source other than hydro to have ever decarbonized a grid.
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@MLiebreich
What a silly & misleading tweet.
If Australia stopped burning coal tomorrow it would have 0 effect on current or future bushfires.
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@john_osborn
@luisbaram
@MikeDelMoro
@Shahriar44R
So if the plane was overbooked, why didn't they leave the people without a seat behind?
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Some people hold Denmark out as a model for renewables, principally wind.
Wind is generating only 4% of their power on a lo demand Sunday night. Without imports from Norway & Sweden, the Danes would be freezing in the dark.
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Does it seem odd to anyone else that many people that oppose nuclear for safety reasons want to embrace hydrogen as a portable fuel?
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@Unplugnukes
Uhh.... France's grid has 1/9th the CO2 intensity of Germany. And it's CO2 emissions that count
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@mynamesnotgordy
@texaslawgirl
@RobertFoster4MS
More likely the women would take one look & dart for the door.
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Not much wind in Germany, so their CO2 emissions hit 500 gm/KWh. But thanks to the sun, they're down to 488! An astounding 15X the intensity of nuclear & hydro powered Ontario.
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@alex_avoigt
Renewables share doesn't matter. CO2 emissions do. Bt that metric, Energiewende is an unmitigated disaster
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If you have enough nuclear to cover for when the wind isnt blowing & the sun isn't shining, why bother with the extra expense of duplicated power sources? There is no cost reduction when nuclear is throttled in favour of RE.
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@ntsafos
Or you could compare Germany with France and see what Germany could have done. German emissions intensity is 7X those in France
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Another crappy day for wind in Germany. The days are getting shorter & the nights colder. Perhaps rethink closing those nuclear plants? Or trust Putin to supply extra gas?
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