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But energy scolds tell us

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 15 May 2017 13:35:23 +0000

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But energy scolds tell us that electric cars really don't save much and that we should just give up & shoot ourselves (so cockroaches can bloom, I suppose). What to do, what to do...

And in another example of

artappraiser — Fri, 12 May 2017 21:07:43 +0000

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And in yet another example of "pay no attention to the Wizard, look at the man behind the curtain," CNN reported 20 min. ago that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed an international declaration highlighting the importance of the Paris Agreement in tackling climate change Thursday, even as the Trump administration considers withdrawing from the agreement.

Furthermore, I note that Tillerson was chair of the meeting.

Edit to add a reminder that Sec. Tillerson joined Exxon/Mobil in 1975 and was its CEO from 2006 to 2016.

The Cheap Energy Revolution

artappraiser — Fri, 12 May 2017 20:51:37 +0000

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The Cheap Energy Revolution Is Here, and Coal Won’t Cut It

Fifteen charts about how Trump is building a dangerous “age of plenty on steroids.”

by Tom Randall @ Bloomberg.com, April 26, 2017

Wind and solar are about to become unstoppable, natural gas and oil production are approaching their peak, and electric cars and batteries for the grid are waiting to take over. This is the world Donald Trump inherited as U.S. president. And yet his energy plan is to cut regulations to resuscitate the one sector that’s never coming back: coal.

Clean energy installations broke new records worldwide in 2016, and wind and solar are seeing twice as much funding as fossil fuels, according to new data released Tuesday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). That’s largely because prices continue to fall. Solar power, for the first time, is becoming the cheapest form of new electricity in the world.

But with Trump’s deregulations plans, what “we're going to see is the age of plenty—on steroids,” BNEF founder Michael Liebreich said during a presentation in New York. “That’s good news economically, except there’s one fly in the ointment, and that’s climate.”

Here’s what’s shaping the future of power markets, in 15 charts from BNEF [....]