Category: Energy Plans

  • Net-Zero Emissions Is a Reachable Climate Goal

    Bloomberg published an article a week ago about “The Brutal Economics of Reaching Net Zero”.  It is at the following link and copied below.  Captions in italics were copied from the article. For background, the following graph shows Global GHG emissions with a total of 45 Gigatons of GHG annually.  NY State’s in state contribution…

  • The disaster no major U.S. city is prepared for

    September 13, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.The article documents the damage that occurs when a large city is without energy during a period of extreme heat.  That is something that the NYISO has been warning about for downstate NY. By increasing loads while trying to eliminate generation, combined with fantasizing about renewable generation that isn’t coming…

  • Can Europe’s chemical industry survive net zero?

    The attached pdf was sent to me by someone that reads my emails.  It discusses how Chemical Companies in Europe are trying to get to net zero but can’t because of a lack of green hydrogen and a lack of green energy needed to make the green hydrogen. Electrolysis used to make hydrogen is about…

  • Volkswagen Considers Closing Plants in Germany – The New York Times

    This article was just released by the NY Times about Volkswagen initiating layoffs and plant Closures in Germany. One of the reasons cited was high energy and labor costs making their German plants non-competitive.  The following line in italics is from the article. The German economy, Europe’s largest, contracted in the months from April to…