A climate success story: How Alberta got off coal power

[chuckChuck]

Renewable energy breaks UK record in first quarter of 2020

‘Substantial increase’ in wind and solar power helped to generate 47% of Britain’s electricity

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/25/renewable-energy-breaks-uk-record-in-first-quarter-of-2020 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/25/renewable-energy-breaks-uk-record-in-first-quarter-of-2020

"The government’s official data has revealed that renewable energy made up 47% of the UK’s electricity generation in the first three months of the year, smashing the previous quarterly record of 39% set last year."

Looks like the UK has had success with getting off coal generation by adding a tremendous amount of wind and some solar.

[Guest]

The current Saskatchewan government is good at distorting and hiding the truth. A lot of what they say is just politics. Keep digging.

They clearly have a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions even if it is not a good one.

You are f u c k I n g hilarious
It doesn’t matter how many facts or figures contradict your horseshit , you just keep spewing it out
You seem to be oblivious to the fact that you missed the boat

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It got even worse over night. Alberta's coal currently producing more than 1000 times more electricity than Alberta's solar and wind. Which is as low as 3 MW out of 1900 MW capacity. Importing 78 MW from Montana. 26 times more than wind and solar are putting out.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So far today, wind has ranged between 2 and 4 MW, out of 1781 MW installed. 22 out of 24 wind farms are producing zero all morning. Actually less than zero, since there are significant parasitic losses to a wind turbine with no wind.

[Guest]

could you imagine if our imaginary news media people actually reported on this scam

[fjlip]

could you imagine if our imaginary news media people actually reported on this scam

THEY are paid NOT to, as are others paid to spread the lies wind/ solar is the answer.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

could you imagine if our imaginary news media people actually reported on this scam

Imagine the conundrum Chuck would face if CBC reported actual news on this front. He would probably join the Defund the CBC chorus.

Wind generation fell as low as 1 MW a few minutes ago. That is 0.009% of total internal load. But maybe solar will save the day. Brooks solar now averaging 2% capacity factor in the past week.

[Guest]

I’m curious
What is the best day ever for one of these ?
What percentage of actual claims ?

[oneoff]

You are f u c k I n g hilarious
It doesn’t matter how many facts or figures contradict your horseshit , you just keep spewing it out
You seem to be oblivious to the fact that you missed the boat

I had hoped to capture the quote that prompted this response.

But the message is that this Government of Canada website may have ever detail and analysis to determine what is being done to Western Canad on Reducing Methane Upstream Emisissions. Right down to zeroing in on one Member of Parliament who the ruling Parliament might be most listening to. Who knows...maybe even feeding the propaganda/media machine that is totally agreeable with "green environmental beliefs". The website link is at the end ; but see if you find a connection between the pie graph of 44% methane emissions from oil type activity; and I believe 28 % from agriculture and why it is worth everyone's attention if you have conventional farming interests..

What are the odds that agriculture is next on the hit list (you know...synthetic fertilizer production; its breakdown to bad gases and cow farts; and shit you never thought about.

https://pollution-waste.canada.ca/environmental-protection-registry/regulations/view?Id=146


and where's the concern about how those agriculture CH4 emmissions affect you as a farmer. Also figure out that unamed MP's name and maybe it will all connect right back to how we get propaganda on agriville theads.

Here's the link

[Austrian Economics]

Taxing one type of economic activity and predictably seeing demand for it fall is not, in and of itself, a "success" story.

"Converting coal plants to gas created jobs and economic activity." So does paying some people to dig holes and other people to fill them in. This creates jobs in the same sense that Soviet workers had jobs, but these projects are the negation of economics. Since they require the consumption of resources for activities for which there is no actual consumer demand, there is only a net loss to the economy.

Scrapping a perfectly good coal fired generating system for the politically motivated goal of conversion to natural gas is a net loss. If it was a net benefit (i.e. profitable), the owners of the coal stations would have done it a long time ago all on their own.