The Weekend Wonk: Al Gore’s New TED Talk – “Do You Take Us For Fools?”
Al Gore gives another stemwinder here, focusing on Fossil Fuel industry efforts to hijack the COP Process, and, they hope, steer the global energy transition to their advantage. The empty (so far) promise of “Carbon Capture” as the pretense for business as usual.
The Oil Industry CEO running the next round of climate negotiations is simultaneously leading an investment spree
He’s plowing $150 billion into more oil and gas and petrochemicals
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Gore claims the Abu Dhabi oil company has ‘no credible plan’ to reduce emissions. Maybe so, but the United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi is part, has started operating three 1400 megawatt pressurised water reactors in the last three years – coincidentally, almost exactly the same capacity as the three Germany’s Green Party Energy Minister closed last year. Germany has just signed a deal to import 2.25 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas, per year, for the next 20 years – slightly more than would be needed to replace the power of those reactors using state-of-the art combined cycle gas turbines. Germany plans to build another 17-21 Gigawatts of gas turbines – but they’ll be ‘hydrogen-ready’. If you think that’s a credible plan, do some research on how much hydrogen Green Planet Energy, formerly Greenpeace Energy, was putting in its ‘proWindgas’ – rather less than %1.
The Emirati’s fourth nuclear plant should go into operation this year, and they’re already in negotiations with South Korea to build two more. That should free up plenty of gas, that they can sell on the lucrative LNG market to countries like Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Belgium that have closed their well-functioning nukes.
Gore claims the Abu Dhabi oil company has ‘no credible plan’ to reduce emissions. Maybe so, but the United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi is part, has started operating three 1400 megawatt pressurised water reactors in the last three years – coincidentally, almost exactly the same capacity as the three Germany’s Green Party Energy Minister closed last year. Germany has just signed a deal to import 2.25 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas, per year, for the next 20 years – slightly more than would be needed to replace the power of those reactors using state-of-the art combined cycle gas turbines. Germany plans to build another 17-21 Gigawatts of gas turbines – but they’ll be ‘hydrogen-ready’. If you think that’s a credible plan, do some research on how much hydrogen Green Planet Energy, formerly Greenpeace Energy, was putting in its ‘proWindgas’ – rather less than %1.
The Emirati’s fourth nuclear plant should go into operation this year, and they’re already in negotiations with South Korea to build two more. That should free up plenty of gas, that they can sell on the lucrative LNG market to countries like Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Belgium that have closed their well-functioning nukes.