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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 47)

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STING IN THE TAIL (Part 2)
The Climate Change supporters are always apt to quote statistics at you to support their argument, and when taken in isolation, those statistics seem to be quite compelling indeed. However, what is needed is context, and dare I say it, perspective.
They will quote things like per capita head, which would [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 46)

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STING IN THE TAIL (Part 1)
So then, if all of this is good what could possibly hold it up from happening? I mean, everybody has come on side to make it work. We have all reached agreement on what needs to be done. We’ve actually worked out ways we can implement it. We’ve set a [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 45)

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SOLUTIONS.
So then, let’s have a look and see if we actually can try and find a way to cut back on the use of power from coal fired plants.
One of the problems you have with electricity is that it cannot be transmitted over vast distances, because the voltage diminishes and there is no way to [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 44)

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Politicians know one thing, Politics. Whats needed are politicians with the actual will to implement what engineers tell them. 1st item: They need to be FORCED to understand what’s needed & WHY it’s needed. Politicians then need to engage in the personal task of making the people understand why it’s needed. Then …

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 43)

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Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Facility Pennsylvania.Image courtesy FirstEnergy Corp. Click on image to open in a larger window.

SOLEL Solar Thermal Plant Kramer Valley California.Image courtesy Alan Radecki is a Commons Image. Click on image to open in a larger window.

SOLUTIONS
In the previous post I mentioned statistics and economics with respect to actual comparisons. Sometimes things [...]

Jun

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 42)

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SOLUTIONS.
PLANT REPLACEMENT ECONOMICS.
Before deciding on replacements, and then deciding on where they need to be constructed, let’s look at some of the economics, and I know that just by saying that, some readers will probably turn away, but if you ask me, this is not only interesting, it throws up some very surprising information.
First we [...]

Jun

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Kyoto -A Perspective (Part 41)

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SOLUTIONS (Part 4)
REPLACING COAL
It’s so easy to believe it when someone tells you that a layer of greenhouse gas has risen to the outer layers of the Earths Atmospheric levels and is holding in the heat generated on the Earth.
It’s so easy to get caught up worrying that this heat is having an effect on [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 40)

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SOLUTIONS (Part 3)
COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. COMBINED HEAT AND POWER
This process, Combined heat and Power (CHP) is not something new. As I mentioned in the last post, it was introduced in the 1880’s in Manhattan, and is in fairly widespread, if not unheralded, use throughout the State of New York. When grid power started to come on [...]

Jun

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Erratum)

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AN ERROR REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION
I knew that sooner or later, some of the facts I’ve written here might come back to haunt me, and today I found one.
Remember that I’ve said in a couple of places that some things just didn’t seem to be quite right. Those things I tried to chase up in as [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 39)

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SOLUTIONS (Part 2)
COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS

Marily Monroe in Manhattan.Click on image to open in a larger window.

I’ve been reliably informed that I can write articles that might be of an important nature, and gain a small dedicated reader base. However, if I really want a huge number of people to read an article, then I need to [...]

Jun

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 38)

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SOLUTIONS (Part 1)
INDIVIDUAL
HOUSEHOLD ALTERNATIVES.
The average household in the US, and for that fact in nearly every country, is connected to the mains power from the grid. This is a legal requirement. Some households have removed themselves from the grid for one reason or another, but virtually all of them are on that grid.
Why this is [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 37)

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REPLACING COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS.
Shutting down 15% of the total electrical power production in the US is something that just rolls off the tongue, but what is actually entailed in doing something like this? It’s the closing down of around 50 large baseload coal fired power plants.
Again, I have to stress the importance of baseload [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 36)

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AN ABUNDANCE OF INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

I’ve included this pie chart again because I want you to look at with more than just a cursory glance, and to achieve that aim, I’m going to refer you back to it a couple of times during this post.
I’m a cautious guy, and if I commit something to a post, [...]

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Kyoto - A Perspective (Part 35)

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THE ATLAS SHRUGGED PRINCIPLE
When I was at high school, we had to do book reviews for English, and we had to do one book a term. Of all those books I only remember three of them, and only one of them I revisited in my adult life. Those three books were John Buchan’s ‘The Thirty [...]

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