Nothing can shake AMLO’s fossil-fuel fixation

[Meredith Poor + 883]

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/05/21/nothing-can-shake-amlos-fossil-fuel-fixation

(Economist magazine, paywall).

AMLO is trying to protect incumbent oil, gas, and power infrastructure (run by the government) from investor owned renewable energy sources.

[Jay McKinsey + 1,489]

1 hour ago, Meredith Poor said:

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/05/21/nothing-can-shake-amlos-fossil-fuel-fixation

(Economist magazine, paywall).

AMLO is trying to protect incumbent oil, gas, and power infrastructure (run by the government) from investor owned renewable energy sources.

AMLO, the anti renewable leftist. 

[waltz + 140]

AMLO, the status quo, messiah complex narcissist unable/unwilling to open the domestic petroleum industry up to competition.  Is this because he can not lose the support of a union relying on the economics of a known to be false, import substitution, economic theory.

[Dan Clemmensen + 1,011]

Mexico is part of OPEC+. This is not really different than any OPEC+ country.

[footeab@yahoo.com + 2,129]

I briefly read something to the order that it is all about a union that essentially Runs Mexico City.  Mexico City Metro area which is ~20Million going on 40Million if one includes surrounding couple of states all run by same union, or ~1/3 of the entire population.  The union runs the water trucks(without which half of Mexico city has no water), garbage trucks, etc which just happens to also run the oil industry.  It should be noted that Northern Mexico is fairly rebellious and between N. Mexico and Mexico city where the majority of the population lives, lives no one as it is a giant desert other than narrowly along the coasts. 

This would be like if a single union ran everything from Boston to Philadelphia x2

[Douglas Buckland + 6,308]

6 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

AMLO, the anti renewable leftist. 

Yep, anyone not pro-renewables is a crazed left wing, climate denying anarchist.

Par for the course.

[Sebastian Meana + 278]

On 5/26/2020 at 4:42 PM, Meredith Poor said:

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2020/05/21/nothing-can-shake-amlos-fossil-fuel-fixation

(Economist magazine, paywall).

AMLO is trying to protect incumbent oil, gas, and power infrastructure (run by the government) from investor owned renewable energy sources.

It does it really mater? really? what's better using Solar panels and wind turbines and then using natural gas to back all up (because it doesnt work)? Or just use natural gas in the first place? 

[NickW + 2,714]

9 minutes ago, Sebastian Meana said:

It does it really mater? really? what's better using Solar panels and wind turbines and then using natural gas to back all up (because it doesnt work)? Or just use natural gas in the first place? 

Using solar / wind makes a huge amount of sense if you live in a windy / sunny country and are a net importer of energy - or more specifically natural gas. 

Fuel cost is the main component of gas sourced electricity. 

[Sebastian Meana + 278]

3 minutes ago, NickW said:

Using solar / wind makes a huge amount of sense if you live in a windy / sunny country and are a net importer of energy - or more specifically natural gas. 

Fuel cost is the main component of gas sourced electricity. 

it doesn't make a hugue amount of sense, just makes sense, and would make sense if they didnt have another source of energy, they can either produce their own Nat gas or import it from texas at around 160-250 U$S a ton, even if natural gas was at 500U$S a ton it would still be competitive with solar power in the sonora desert.

is the same reason to why Arab countries generate electricity by oil and gas despite living in the best world spot for solar power, is cheap, and they have a lot.

[NickW + 2,714]

42 minutes ago, Sebastian Meana said:

it doesn't make a hugue amount of sense, just makes sense, and would make sense if they didnt have another source of energy, they can either produce their own Nat gas or import it from texas at around 160-250 U$S a ton, even if natural gas was at 500U$S a ton it would still be competitive with solar power in the sonora desert.

is the same reason to why Arab countries generate electricity by oil and gas despite living in the best world spot for solar power, is cheap, and they have a lot.

makes sense then - then there is your answer as to why many countries invest in wind / solar while using natural gas to fill in the gaps. 

Gulf states are good for solar but there are a few issues. 

• The performance of PV suffers  in that heat. (high altitude at low latitides is best for solar - ex. Tibet)
• The dust in the middle east is awful and its not brushable. It covers everything and then dew at night sets it like concrete so it needs to be regularly washed off
• The local population do nothing - you have to import the labour lock stock and barrel to build these solar farms and operate them.