“Let me be clear … COP30 will close with a political text without mentioning fossil fuels phase-out. It does not mention fossil fuel phase-down. It does not provide a pathway to end deforestation. It does not mention the very causes of the crisis. Nothing. Zero. Silence.” (- Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, below)
Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, self-described “He/Him; TIME100 Climate 2025; Special Representative for Climate Change of Panamá; Inaugural Obama Scholar; Pritzker Environmental Genius Award Finalist 2023,” summarized COP30 as follows.
Dear friends, colleagues, and every person who cares about life on this planet,
I will be brutally honest: the COP and the UN system are not working for you. They have never really worked for you. And today, they are failing you at a historic scale.
Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the negotiators that your governments sent to COP30 are not defending your future.…
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Wind Energy — Offshore:
2.4 GW New Jersey Offshore Wind Project Axed by Developers
Study: Net Zero Wind and Solar Buildout Needs Huge Amount of Land
Nuclear Energy:
California Public Utilities Commission: We don’t need no Stinkin’ Physics or Engineering
Nuclear Energy Revival: A Tribute to Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
Data Centers, Trump Spark U.S. Nuclear Revival
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, IEA says
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** The True Source of Civilization’s Future is Energy Wisdom
Rare Earth Minerals, etc From China … or the USA?…
Continue ReadingThe first commercial nuclear plant started operation at Calder Hall in England in 1956. By 1970, reactors were in construction around the world. Many predicted that atomic energy would generate most of the world’s power by 2000. In 1973, President Richard Nixon stated, “It is estimated that nuclear power will provide more than one-quarter of the country’s electrical production by 1985, and over half by the year 2000.”
However, operational problems and environmental opposition would sway public opinion against atomic energy. Reactor failures at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986, and at Fukushima, Japan in 2011 raised safety concerns.…
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