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Sep 1 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Good chart to study: cost per MWh of #energy. Grey and orange balls are wind and solar; dark grey is gas; black is coal. Economic advantage of #renewables in most countries is stunning. Image
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linkedin.com/posts/michael-…

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"figure 1.7 [shows] how large the benefit is by looking at the weighted average country #LCOE for #solar #PV and #windpower deployed in 2021 compared to what we thought the marginal generation cost would be for fossil fuels in 2022.
Put simply, renewables received their biggest yearly improvement in competitiveness in history in 2022.... the bulk of the boost coming from the eye-wateringly high fossil fuel prices we're dealing with in 2022.
With premiums for fossil fuels that are likely to run to USD 150-250/MWh in many cases this year in OECD.... In short, the value proposition of #renewables remains immense unless you assume unrealistic integration costs." end quote

Great significance for the #energycrisis.
A shame that Europe did not deploy more renewables, instead staying on the sinking ship of fossil fuels. They will pay dearly for that error.
#Germany, commendably, made at least a partial effort. Here's background:
Success of German energy transition:
I repeat my prediction:


Europe will suffer terribly from high fossil fuel and nuclear prices, and from nuclear's chronic intermittency problem (heavy in France right now), while renewables chug along, delivering clean power cheaply and reliably.
... cheaply and reliably and with ever-higher EROI, while FF and nuclear EROI goes into the toilet:

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@calebmaupin This has nothing to do w/"degrowth policies", about which you are ignorant.

The immediate cause of Sri Lanka's food problem was the sudden abolition of nitrate fertilizer use -- an idiotic move advocated by no intelligent person, and certainly not by any degrowth intellectual.
@calebmaupin If Sri Lanka wished to *REDUCE* (not abolish) use of N fertilizers, fine, good idea. Reduce them by 10-20%/year increments while watching yields and other results carefully, and while introducing compensatory measures (e.g. legume cycles for N fixation) so as to avoid trouble.
@calebmaupin Do NOT attempt to reduce use to zero overnight, after the high-N regime has been in place for a long time. That is idiotic and risks disaster.

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"A socialist plan to defeat COVID-19"



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@pslweb
Poor take from the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

1 They write of "absolutely essential health measures like fully vaccinating the entire population", ignoring the glaring fact that the PRC completely abolished covid in 2020 without a vaccine.
Same with Vietnam, which since starting vaccination went from zero covid to major covid problems. Similar trajectories have been evident in other highly-vaxxed countries like the U.S.: more cases and deaths since the advent of vaccination, versus before.
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Dec 9, 2021
The GREEN PARTY endorses vaccine mandates!

Read their statement. It is telling that it is littered with signal phrases that indicate the writers have very little knowledge, and never bothered to study in depth (or perhaps even at all) before drafting it.

#GreenParty #GreenExit
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"vaccines...protect our most vulnerable, such as children"

This is one place where vaccine hesitancy (minimally!) is well justified; for the risk, it would be crazy to mass-vaccinate children. Total all-time covid deaths, ages 5-11: **94**.
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Dear @ChrisLynnHedges:
Your famous remark - “We live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, govs destroy freedom, media destroys information, religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy" - needs an update.
With the covid clusterfuck we have seen how:
-- Scientists destroy science
-- Pro-vaxxers foster anti-vax-ism
-- Public health authorities foster public ill-health
-- Human rights leaders deny human rights
-- Leftists enthusiastically advocate fascist policies
The covid clusterfuck has added new dimensions to your original remark, very very BIG ones, and has done so with incredible speed.

So it is all the more remarkable that you've chosen not to speak out about these things.
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Really good interview. Paul Kingsnorth puts his finger on the deeper issues underlying the current covid wars. If you don't have time to listen to the whole thing, might I suggest listening to:
1: Kingsnorth's opening statement, 1:30-7:00
2: Key bottom lines, 27:30-30:30
... but if you listen to those two passages, you'll probably wind up listening to the whole thing, which is to the good. It is worth it.
Scrolling through the (twitter) responses to Kingsnorth's views, I note many violently rejecting him and denouncing him as "anti-vaxxer" and the like. Which is truly crazy. They are missing the point and demonstrating only that they are incapable of grasping what he is saying.
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