The path to a zero carbon future

A request for information has always sounded like a rather timid affair. Government departments regularly issue RFIs to the private sector, nongovernmental organisations and the public. It’s a request. Not a demand or a statutory requirement. These requests generally result in a flurry of activity, and a plethora of responses.

Burning coal to make electricity is about 33% efficient, meaning that 100 units of energy locked away in coal produce about 33 units of electrical energy. Two-thirds is wasted away as heat, as well as energy to propel small particulate matter into the atmosphere, to wreak their nasty breed of respiratory havoc on those within the range of the pollution plume.

Mark Jacobson and his team at Stanford University, use the term 100% water, wind and solar to signify this transition. All electricity is produced from either wind, solar or water . So we have two 2050 end members: business as usual or water, wind and solar . They have a plan for South Africa. But then so does a research group, in Finland of all places. Not much to do during those long winter nights in Finland, they sit in small huddled groups. Someone chips in: “Why don’t we model the South African energy system and dream about sunshine?” They all nod, and get to work. Their model differs in detail, but is uncannily similar to Jacobson’s model. Let’s drink to that.

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Funny! Too many vested interests in coal, old- and new mining combined.

If you think CO2 is a problem, just wait for the megalithic slag heap that awaits the world because of solar PV and wind turbine disposal. This is a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions...

Just because it benefit IPPs, Whynot the Nuclearenergy?

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