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[WiltonRanch]

That better battery storage is still an ongoing issue which can be lumped with cold fusion. It’s many years out there. If they can conquer graphene we might have a shot but we’ll be pushing up daisies before that. Christ nuclear energy has been around for 80 years and how far has it progressed in terms of thorium and salt cooling rather than using expensive deuterium. See there is a new reactor coming on line which uses regular water for cooling so there is some progress

[AlbertaFarmer5]

That better battery storage is still an ongoing issue which can be lumped with cold fusion. It’s many years out there. If they can conquer graphene we might have a shot but we’ll be pushing up daisies before that. Christ nuclear energy has been around for 80 years and how far has it progressed in terms of thorium and salt cooling rather than using expensive deuterium. See there is a new reactor coming on line which uses regular water for cooling so there is some progress

But how can that be, when Chucks endlessly repeated cut and paste claims that solar with storage is already the cheapest energy. Yet, mysteriously, is unable to find an actual example of this unicorn solar with storage at that price.

[cropgrower]

Waiting im sure for the university of calgary to come up with some propaganda , they are the experts in everything lately

[Guest]

The green dream

only the chucky types get it ,too hard for the rest of us
“his reply was “no such thing as renewable energy, huh?”
Maybe he thinks solar panels and bird grinders last forever?

[Guest]

At least they have a back haul when they cut (carbon eating) trees down in northern Saskatchewan with a faller buncher, haul trees on trucks to a pelleting mill , pellet them using natural gas , load on a diesel train , then on a diesel ship over to Europe, then on trucks to be mysteriously burnt as pristine clean green heating fuel pellets free of emissions
you can’t make this horse shit up folks !!!!!

[fjlip]

Perfect summary of the stupidity. Thanks.
When will people wake up and destroy this insanity?

[chuckChuck]

Solar and wind are supplemental generation sources and don't have to replace all other sources to be valuable generation sources.

The LCOE shows that solar and wind are cheaper sources of generation over their lifetime than almost anything else. They don't have to cover all our needs to be valuable and effective at providing electricity.

"There's no maximum percentage of renewables per se, it's more a question of what portfolio gives you both cheap energy and sufficiency capacity when you need it."

From one of the Alberta energy economists who studies Alberta's system.

Transalta is choosing a lot of renewables so that supports what I have been saying.

"TransAlta going greener as it maps out $3.5B in spending, mainly on renewables

One of Alberta's largest power generators says more than two-thirds of its profits will come from renewable electricity production by 2028 - a major transformation for a company that once was one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the country.

TransAlta Corp. announced an updated capital growth plan at its investor day on Tuesday which will see the company invest $3.5 billion, focused mainly on clean electricity generating and storage capacity by the end of 2028.

The Calgary-based company, which has brought online more than 800 megawatts of wind and solar power since 2021 alone, said it will add an additional 1,750 MW of clean power within the next five years.

Most of that new generation will be organic growth - developing wind and solar projects from scratch - though the company is also open to growth through mergers and acquisitions if the right opportunity comes along, said TransAlta CEO John Kousinioris in an interview.

“What's interesting about it is just the impact it will have on our company,” Kousinioris said of the new growth projections.

“It will end up pushing us pretty firmly into a more contracted and greener generation company. By 2028 and frankly, even earlier, somewhere in the range of 70 per cent of our EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) will come from renewables.”

Currently, approximately 40 per cent of TransAlta's EBITDA is attributable to renewable energy. The company is one of the largest producers of wind power in Canada, having grown its total renewable energy capacity from approximately 900 MW in 2000 to more than 2,900 MW in 2022"

[Hamloc]

China on course to hit wind and solar power target five years ahead of time

Beijing bolstering position as global renewables leader with solar capacity more than rest of world combined

Amy Hawkins ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-hawkins[/url]) and Rachel Cheung ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachel-cheung[/url])
Thu 29 Jun 2023 01.00 BSTLast modified on Thu 29 Jun 2023 02.30 BST

China is shoring up its position as the world leader in renewable power and potentially outpacing its own ambitious energy targets, a report has found.
China is set to double its capacity and produce 1,200 gigawatts of energy through wind and solar power by 2025, reaching its 2030 goal five years ahead of time, according to the report by Global Energy Monitor, a San Francisco-based NGO that tracks operating utility-scale wind and solar farms as well as future projects in the country.

It says that as of the first quarter of the year, China’s utility-scale solar capacity has reached 228GW, more than that of the rest of the world combined. The installations are concentrated in the country’s north and north-west provinces, such as Shanxi, Xinjiang and Hebei.

In addition, the group identified solar farms under construction that could add another 379GW in prospective capacity, triple that of the US and nearly double that of Europe.

China has also made huge strides in wind capacity: its combined onshore and offshore capacity now surpasses 310GW, double its 2017 level and roughly equivalent to the next top seven countries combined. With new projects in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu and along coastal areas, China is on course to add another 371GW before 2025, increasing the global wind fleet by nearly half.

“This new data provides unrivalled granularity about China’s jaw-dropping surge in solar and wind capacity,” said Dorothy Mei, a project manager at Global Energy ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/energy[/url]) Monitor. “As we closely monitor the implementation of prospective projects, this detailed information becomes indispensable in navigating the country’s energy landscape.”

The findings are in line with previous reports and government data released ([url]https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3221970/solar-jump-renewable-energy-driving-seat-home-and-abroad-chinas-capacity-just-keeps-expanding[/url]) this year, which predicted that China could easily surpass its target of supplying a third of its power consumption through renewable sources by 2030.

China’s green energy drive is part of its effort to meet dual carbon goals set out in 2020. As the world’s second largest economy, it is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and accounts for half of the world’s coal consumption. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, pledged in 2020 to achieve peak CO₂ emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

The report attributed China’s remarkable progress in expanding its non-fossil energy sources to the range of policies its government has implemented, including generous subsidies to incentivise developers as well as regulations to put pressure on provincial governments and generating companies.

China began operating the world’s largest hybrid solar-hydro power plant in the Tibetan plateau on Sunday. Named Kela, the plant can produce 2bn kW hours of electricity annually, equal to the energy consumption of more than 700,000 households.

Itis only the first phase of a massive clean energy project in the Yalong River basin. The installation has a 20GW capacity now and is expected to reach about 50GW by 2030. skip past newsletter promotion ([url]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-solar-power-global-renewable-energy-leader#EmailSignup-skip-link-13[/url]) Sign up to Down to Earth

Article on Reuters today: “China’s progress on renewables to meet climate goals undermined by coal expansion-research.”

”It has granted permits for 152 gigawatts of new coal power since the start of 2022, starting construction on 92 gigawatts, with total capacity on track to rise 23% by 2030.”

To put this in perspective, at its peak Alberta has 5.4 gigawatts of coal fired generation! We certainly saved the world in Alberta when the NDP legislated the early end of coal fired electrical generation and now Albertan’s are paying for it with higher electricity prices.

[cropgrower]

only the most clueless support canada being bankrupted by this nonsense

[TOM4CWB]

Nero fiddling while Rome burns…

complete insanity…

[chuckChuck]

Article on Reuters today: “China’s progress on renewables to meet climate goals undermined by coal expansion-research.”

”It has granted permits for 152 gigawatts of new coal power since the start of 2022, starting construction on 92 gigawatts, with total capacity on track to rise 23% by 2030.”

To put this in perspective, at its peak Alberta has 5.4 gigawatts of coal fired generation! We certainly saved the world in Alberta when the NDP legislated the early end of coal fired electrical generation and now Albertan’s are paying for it with higher electricity prices.

Yup and Alberta has 4 million inhabitants and China 1.425 billion people.

So lets compare Apples to Apples,

Alberta's emissions per capita are the second highest in Canada at 58.02 tonnes CO₂e – three times the national average of 17.68 tonnes per capita.Aug 24, 2023

China's 7.44 tonnes per capita!

Looks like Alberta has some work to catch up with China's emissions per capita that are almost 8 times lower!

[furrowtickler]

What’s the emissions per km2 of both countries ?

[Guest]

Or per tonne of food produced to feed these over populated countries?

[fjlip]

Per capita is the DUMBEST way to compare. It's all models calculations estimates...who weighs the C02? Phuck it's heavy!

[shtferbrains]

Looks like Alberta has some work to catch up with China's emissions per capita that are almost 8 times lower!

Again Chuck, like your Lazard example, if you don't use actual data you can make numbers say anything you want.
NASA recently released actual data on CO2 emissions by country.
It seems Canada factually sinks about 1 Billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
So about 30+ lbs per Canadian?