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Check what you own or use that came from a petroleum base, and…mind the impending reality gap.
By Ronald Stein ~
The zero-emission movement in the wealthy countries are experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that eliminates the use of the three fossil fuels of crude oil, natural gas, and coal, that made society achieve so much in a few centuries. As old refineries accelerate their closure rates in the coming years, new Asia refineries are coming to the rescue! Does Asia’s rescue represent the good news or the bad news?
The future does not bode well as 20 percent of the 700 worldwide aging refineries are projected to close in the next 5 years that will result in less manufacturing with the loss of 140 sites to meet the ever growing demands of ships, jets, and the derivatives needed for all the products demanded by society. With less manufacturing in wealthy countries in the days ahead, further shortages and…
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“three fossil fuels of crude oil, natural gas, and coal, that made society”
Though on occasion remnants of past industrial civilizations have been found in coal, there still is no evidence of fossils to be found in any of these.
A mark of civilization must be its use of misnomers.
Misnomers? you mean like Carbon, greenhouse gas(es), Male, female, Binaries ( Zeros and 1’sies ) etc
But seriously, the world has its belly full and is drunk with its own importance..
and not quite O/T, take a look at this .. is it my Destiny , or what, when I’m fed up with UK Media offerings and have an earworm from listening to music instead ( Birdsong? huh – distant traffic noise drowns it out …Covid, NAY – LOCKDOWN, showed us what we missed/ Look at this … I’m saying no more – Whe nthe Dutch farmers do what they do…..der Club der haesslichen kinder and it for children ! ?? https://www.br.de/br-fernsehen/programmkalender/sendung-3719832.html Put anything close to hand AWAY before you watch!
Somehow the total available energy needs to keep pace with demand, or demand has to drop by some means or other. Renewables can splutter along, but if reliable *on demand* energy sources are allowed to fall short it’s pain all round.
Ask South Africans for example…
Ruinous blackouts threaten to end ANC rule in South Africa
Worsening power cuts risk a political earthquake in Africa’s most industrialised nation
2 April 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/04/02/south-africa-anc-blackouts-load-shedding-cyril-ramaphosa/
Maybe the simple answer is to build more coal fired power plants to tide the countries over while small nuclear plants are fully developed.
Closed cycle gas turbine plant is cheaper, takes up less space and can be essentially built from off-the-shelf components, Ivan.
So we really need to get fracking as well!