GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES

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13 hours ago, notsonice said:

bad headlines for slow people who do not know how to drive

Bad headlines for the EV business.

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14 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

Every car has the accelerator and brake pedals in the same area. Apparently you never noticed.

Some are worse than others. Apparently you never noticed.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Ecocharger

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Worldwide coal increase of 6%, what was all that hot air about coal disappearing?

"Overall coal demand worldwide, including uses beyond power generation such as cement and steel production, is also forecast to grow by six percent in 2021.

That increase will not take it above the record levels it reached in 2013 and 2014, but weather patterns and economic growth could boost coal demand to new peaks as soon as 2022 and remain at that level for the following two years."

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Coal-Use-Is-Reaching-Record-Levels-In-India-And-China.html

Edited December 18, 2021 by Ecocharger

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13 hours ago, notsonice said:

nothing in the article about taxpayer funding, however it did mention .....An Italian company called Prysmian Group plans to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for subsea transmission cables at Brayton Point, employing about 200 people. Once completed, it will be the first piece of the US offshore wind supply chain to be located in Massachusetts.....Must suck for you to think coal power is cost competitive with wind or solar these days.

Read your own material, this sounds like public support to me.

"The two projects announced on Friday and the onshore economic development accompanying them comes at a time when leaders of the Massachusetts House are preparing legislation to support offshore wind and capture more onshore economic development."

Edited December 18, 2021 by Ecocharger

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58 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

Read your own material, this sounds like public support to me.

"The two projects announced on Friday and the onshore economic development accompanying them comes at a time when leaders of the Massachusetts House are preparing legislation to support offshore wind and capture more onshore economic development."

A State promoting renewables and working for more economic development... Oh my what are you going to do???? Your whole BS babble against renewables is just pathetic

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1 hour ago, Ecocharger said:

Some are worse than others. Apparently you never noticed.

NHTSA did a full investigation and found no problem with Tesla in regard to unintended acceleration. If the pedals were poorly designed they would have said so.

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7 hours ago, Ecocharger said:

Locating the accelerator and the brake in the same location would be asking for trouble.

"Coaxial" accelerator and brake pedals?

Those two pedals have always been "neighbors".

Like Low C and Low D on a pipe organ.

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6 hours ago, notsonice said:

A State promoting renewables and working for more economic development... Oh my what are you going to do???? Your whole BS babble against renewables is just pathetic

A state "supporting" renewables...there is the magic word, "support". That sounds so much better than "subsidies" or "government intervention" or "spending taxpayer's money"....so you can do your ostrich routine here, but the reality remains.

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6 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

NHTSA did a full investigation and found no problem with Tesla in regard to unintended acceleration. If the pedals were poorly designed they would have said so.

Not necessarily, but that issue should emerge in the upcoming court cases.

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1 hour ago, turbguy said:

"Coaxial" accelerator and brake pedals?

Those two pedals have always been "neighbors".

Like Low C and Low D on a pipe organ.

That may be the problem in this case, if it is not a problem with other vehicles.

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2 hours ago, Ecocharger said:

Not necessarily, but that issue should emerge in the upcoming court cases.

Or not. Here are what the pedals look like. So much for another of your dumb ideas.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-3/accessories/aftermarket-performance-pedals-for-tesla-model-3/

Edited December 19, 2021 by Jay McKinsey

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On 11/15/2021 at 11:09 AM, ronwagn said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel

thank you for the reference.

As i briefly glide through the content, I realize it might not be the same as the draft design that i have in mind........

Owing to much constraint over things I can do, I might need some help to get it cleared out. Anyone interested to discover if it is fun to play around with my design?

Edited December 19, 2021 by specinho

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13 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

Or not. Here are what the pedals look like. So much for another of your dumb ideas.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-3/accessories/aftermarket-performance-pedals-for-tesla-model-3/

I am not impressed with that layout, putting it into scale would reveal actual practicality or impracticality. Show us a human boot in scale, otherwise you made a mistake showing us so much, Jay. Not such a bright idea.

Edited December 19, 2021 by Ecocharger

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5 hours ago, Ecocharger said:

I am not impressed with that layout, putting it into scale would reveal actual practicality or impracticality. Show us a human boot in scale, otherwise you made a mistake showing us so much, Jay. Not such a bright idea.

No one cares if you are impressed. The pedals are fine and are not an issue in the case at hand. The driver is claiming that the car accelerated without him touching the pedals. In fact Tesla has claimed that the cases of unintended acceleration are caused by pedal misapplication and they have won every case. If the pedals are dangerous then any an every lawyer would be crawling across broken glass to file a product liability case against Tesla. This however has not happened. Why? Because the pedals aren't a problem.

"While accidents caused by a mistaken press of the accelerator pedal have been alleged for nearly every make/model of vehicle on the road, the accelerator pedals in Model S, X and 3 vehicles have two independent position sensors, and if there is any error, the system defaults to cut off motor torque. Likewise, applying the brake pedal simultaneously with the accelerator pedal will override the accelerator pedal input and cut off motor torque, and regardless of the torque, sustained braking will stop the car. Unique to Tesla, we also use the Autopilot sensor suite to help distinguish potential pedal misapplications and cut torque to mitigate or prevent accidents when we’re confident the driver’s input was unintentional. Each system is independent and records data, so we can examine exactly what happened."

https://www.tesla.com/blog/no-unintended-acceleration-tesla-vehicles

Edited December 19, 2021 by Jay McKinsey

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2 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

No one cares if you are impressed. The pedals are fine and are not an issue in the case at hand. The driver is claiming that the car accelerated without him touching the pedals. In fact Tesla has claimed that the cases of unintended acceleration are caused by pedal misapplication and they have won every case. If the pedals are dangerous then any an every lawyer would be crawling across broken glass to file a product liability case against Tesla. This however has not happened. Why? Because the pedals aren't a problem.

"While accidents caused by a mistaken press of the accelerator pedal have been alleged for nearly every make/model of vehicle on the road, the accelerator pedals in Model S, X and 3 vehicles have two independent position sensors, and if there is any error, the system defaults to cut off motor torque. Likewise, applying the brake pedal simultaneously with the accelerator pedal will override the accelerator pedal input and cut off motor torque, and regardless of the torque, sustained braking will stop the car. Unique to Tesla, we also use the Autopilot sensor suite to help distinguish potential pedal misapplications and cut torque to mitigate or prevent accidents when we’re confident the driver’s input was unintentional. Each system is independent and records data, so we can examine exactly what happened."

https://www.tesla.com/blog/no-unintended-acceleration-tesla-vehicles

If that is so how could this accident happen at all? Something wrong there.

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8 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

If that is so how could this accident happen at all? Something wrong there.

He stepped on the accelerator, pure and simple. Tesla's other efforts at accident prevention are way above what is expected in the market. It seems that they likely kept the accident from being much worse.

Edited December 20, 2021 by Jay McKinsey

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15 minutes ago, Ecocharger said:

If that is so how could this accident happen at all? Something wrong there.

Something is wrong with you. You do understand people have accidents driving cars.... you see people on the news, all the time, who hit the gas when they are trying to hit the brake and drive into storefronts. You seem to have the same problem with your brain.... You should be thinking with your brain, not talking out of your arse, yet it happens with you all the time.

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Baby driver: Philadelphia woman gives birth in front seat of Tesla on autopilot

Yiran Sherry’s waters broke while the family was stuck in traffic, leading to what is believed to be the world’s first ‘Tesla baby’

A Philadelphia mother has given birth to what is believed to be the world’s first Tesla baby: an infant delivered in the front seat of an electric smart car while it was driving on autopilot.

The remarkable delivery, reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, took place in September while Yiran Sherry, 33, and her husband Keating Sherry, 34, were taking their three-year-old son Rafa to pre-school.

 

Yiran Sherry’s waters broke while the family was stuck in traffic. With contractions increasing rapidly and traffic barely moving, the couple realized they were not going to make it in time.

Keating Sherry placed the vehicle on autopilot after setting the navigation system to the hospital, 20 minutes away in the western suburb of Paoli

He said he laid one hand gently on the car’s steering wheel as he attended to his wife.

“She was squeezing my hand to the point where I thought she was going to shatter it,” Keating Sherry told the Inquirer. “I was [saying] ‘Yiran, OK, focus on your breathing.’ That was advice to myself, as well. My adrenaline was pumping.”

Yiran Sherry said the decision over whether to try to wait to give birth until they reached the hospital was an agonising one. However, she said, she kept glancing at their estimated arrival time and saw it was barely moving.

“Should I push or should I hold? Should I push or should I hold? Fuck it, let’s do this,” she recalled telling herself, according to People magazine.

She gave birth to her daughter as they arrived at the hospital, whispering: “Oh, my God, Keating. She’s out.”

Nurses cut the baby’s umbilical cord over the car’s front seat.

Keating Sherry said: “Once the pediatrician said, ‘She’s healthy, congratulations,’ that was quite the sigh of relief.”

Once she was in hospital, Yiran said, nurses kept coming into her room to see the “Tesla baby”.

“[They would ask] ‘Are you the one who delivered the baby in the car?’” Yiran Sherry said.

The couple named their daughter Maeve Lily, after briefly considering Tess, in tribute to the car manufacturer.

“Thank you genius Tesla engineers for your brilliant design of autopilot,” Keating Sherry said.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/19/tesla-baby-philadelphia-autopilot

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The Floating Wind Foundation TetraSpar Demonstrator Has Been Successfully Connected To Norway’s Grid

By

Jesper Berggreen

Published

2 days ago

 

TetraSpar Demonstrator, the world’s first fully industrialized floating offshore foundation, is now commissioned and in operation.

• The floating wind foundation TetraSpar Demonstrator owned by Shell, TEPCO RP, RWE and Stiesdal has been successfully connected to Norway’s grid
• The floating foundation was towed from Denmark to Norway in July. It has now been fully commissioned and is producing power in automatic, unattended operation
• Concept offers leaner manufacturing, assembly, and installation process with lower material costs

Watch the video on Stiesdal LinkedIn

The pioneering floating wind project, TetraSpar Demonstrator, is commissioned and in operation, anchored in place at 200 m (656 feet) water depth off Norway’s coast. The project will now enter its test phase where data on the performance and characteristics of the TetraSpar floating foundation will be captured and analyzed to pave the way for commercial-scale floating wind projects.

Earlier this summer, the TetraSpar Demonstrator reached its destination at the METCentre test site after a tow of 360 nautical miles from the port of assembly in Grenaa, Denmark.
The commissioning of the 3.6 MW Siemens turbine is the last in a string of milestones for the TetraSpar Demonstrator:

• Completion of the factory manufacturing of the components for the world’s first industrially manufactured floating offshore foundation
• Fast assembly of the modules at the quayside, requiring no welding and no special port facilities
• Launch using a semisubmersible barge, followed by rapid turbine installation using an ordinary onshore crane
• Safe deployment of the keel when towed to location of sufficient depth, making the TetraSpar Demonstrator the world’s first spar foundation capable of deployment from an ordinary, shallow-water port

The demonstration project has shown that Stiesdal’s “Tetra” concept remains on target to offer important advantages over existing floating wind concepts, with the potential for leaner manufacturing, assembly, and installation processes, and with lower material costs.

 

 

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Global Installed Wind Power Capacity to Grow at 9% Annually till 2030

By Saur News Bureau/ Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021

 

Highlights :

• Global wind power capacity is expected to grow at a cumulative annualised growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2021 and 2030, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie.
• China has provided a major uplift to the latest forecast. The country’s 48-GW quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) upgrade accounts for nearly 70% of the increase to the global 10-year outlook.

Global wind power capacity is expected to grow at a cumulative annualised growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2021 and 2030, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business. By the end of the decade, cumulative global wind power capacity is projected to hit over 1,756 gigawatts (GW).

 

 

Wood Mackenzie’s Q4 forecast reported a 69-GW increase in new capacity additions globally compared to the previous quarter’s outlook for the period 2021-2030. China has provided a major uplift to the latest forecast. The country’s 48-GW quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) upgrade accounts for nearly 70% of the increase to the global 10-year outlook.

Wood Mackenzie research director Luke Lewandowski said: “Rapid growth in power demand driven by China’s industrial sector and the recent power shortage in September sparked China’s determination to accelerate the development of renewable energy. Hence, we have upgraded our China wind power capacity outlook. The market is expected to add 458 GW this decade and will continue to lead the global rankings in terms of new capacity added.”

6 GW Offshore Wind Capacity Added Globally in 2020, 50% Plus in China: GWEC

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Principal analyst Xiaoyang Li added: “Acute demand for power along China’s coastline triggered a 13-GW upgrade in the offshore wind sector, largely concentrated from 2023 to 2026. The country’s commitment to net zero emissions is expected to drive 88 GW of additional offshore wind capacity between 2021 and 2030.”

QoQ outlook adjustments in the US and Europe combine to contribute 22 GW of additional capacity as these markets respond to decarbonisation targets and expected incentive mechanisms.

An expectation that Congress passes a 100% Production Tax Credit extension yields a QoQ upgrade of nearly 12 GW in the US, primarily impacting the 2026 to 2030 period when annual capacity additions will average 18 GW if grid investments materialise. The US is currently ranked second to China in terms of global new capacity this decade, with 150 GW of capacity addition.

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A 3.3-GW QoQ upgrade in south Europe’s outlook, due primarily to wind developers winning the entirety of a 1.1-GW tech-neutral allotment in October, contributed to nearly 10 GW uplift across Europe this quarter. Upgrades in the rest of the region reflect a broad effort to ramp up compliance toward 2030 targets.

Wood Mackenzie has made minimal adjustments in the QoQ outlook for the Middle East and Africa although advancement of wind builds in South Africa, Oman, Israel, and Egypt indicate development is on pace with the forecast.

Bucking the trend of increasing capacity additions is Japan, who dropped five positions down to 16th position in the top markets for new wind capacity rankings. A 2.5-GW downgrade QoQ in Japan caused by a more conservative offshore target than anticipated resulted in a nearly 800-megawatt downgrade to the outlook for Asia Pacific excluding China. The country is now projected to add 11.7 GW of new capacity this decade.

Vietnam, Asia Pacific’s rising star, reported a 33-fold increase in new capacity additions in just one year as developers have pushed to capitalise on the wind FIT that expired at the end of October. The market is currently ranked 17th in global wind capacity additions with 9.9 GW of new installations expected this decade.

Principal analyst Robert Liew said: “Vietnam has leapt from being an emerging market to become the second largest regional wind market (Asia Pacific excluding China) for capacity additions this year. The official 3.3 GW released by the Ministry of Industry & Trade is likely to include projects that have managed to secure COD certificates despite not being fully completed, as companies rushed to secure wind FITs before it expired at the end of October 2021.”

Edited December 20, 2021 by notsonice

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3 hours ago, notsonice said:

coal lovers will not like this

Does anybody love coal?

I always enjoyed an orange in my stocking over a black lump.

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Inventories of oil and gasoline are tight and are supporting the price of oil despite the pandemic scare.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/Tight-US-Oil-Inventories-Prop-Up-Oil-Prices.html

"Earlier this week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that the surge in COVID cases was set to temporarily slow the recovery in global oil demand, but the impact of the Omicron variant would likely be more muted than previous waves and would not upend the current demand recovery.

For last week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported a crude inventory draw of 4.6 million barrels for the week to December 10. At 428.3 million barrels, crude oil inventories remain 7% below the five-year average for this time of the year. Last week’s draw compares with a modest 200,000-barrel decline in crude inventories for the previous week.

Gasoline inventories fell by 700,000 barrels for the week to December 10, which compared with a build of 3.9 million barrels for the previous week. Total gasoline inventories are now about 6% below the five-year average for this time of year. In middle distillates, the EIA estimated an inventory decline of 2.9 million barrels for the week to December 10, versus an increase of 2.7 million barrels for the previous week. Distillate fuel inventories are about 9% below the seasonal five-year average. 

Moreover, implied gasoline demand jumped to 9.47 million bpd last week from 8.96 million bpd in the prior week. 

In addition, total implied petroleum consumption in the United States rose to a record 23.191 million bpd for the week ending December 10. The previous record was set during the week ending August 27 of this year, which reached fresh highs of 22.820 million bpd."

Edited December 20, 2021 by Ecocharger

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11 minutes ago, turbguy said:

Does anybody love coal?

I always enjoyed an orange in my stocking over a black lump.

What is your stocking made of?

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3 hours ago, notsonice said:

coal lovers will not like this

Global Installed Wind Power Capacity to Grow at 9% Annually till 2030

By Saur News Bureau/ Updated On Wed, Dec 15th, 2021

 

Highlights :

• Global wind power capacity is expected to grow at a cumulative annualised growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2021 and 2030, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie.
• China has provided a major uplift to the latest forecast. The country’s 48-GW quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) upgrade accounts for nearly 70% of the increase to the global 10-year outlook.

Global wind power capacity is expected to grow at a cumulative annualised growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2021 and 2030, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business. By the end of the decade, cumulative global wind power capacity is projected to hit over 1,756 gigawatts (GW).

 

 

Wood Mackenzie’s Q4 forecast reported a 69-GW increase in new capacity additions globally compared to the previous quarter’s outlook for the period 2021-2030. China has provided a major uplift to the latest forecast. The country’s 48-GW quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) upgrade accounts for nearly 70% of the increase to the global 10-year outlook.

Wood Mackenzie research director Luke Lewandowski said: “Rapid growth in power demand driven by China’s industrial sector and the recent power shortage in September sparked China’s determination to accelerate the development of renewable energy. Hence, we have upgraded our China wind power capacity outlook. The market is expected to add 458 GW this decade and will continue to lead the global rankings in terms of new capacity added.”

6 GW Offshore Wind Capacity Added Globally in 2020, 50% Plus in China: GWEC

Also Read

Principal analyst Xiaoyang Li added: “Acute demand for power along China’s coastline triggered a 13-GW upgrade in the offshore wind sector, largely concentrated from 2023 to 2026. The country’s commitment to net zero emissions is expected to drive 88 GW of additional offshore wind capacity between 2021 and 2030.”

QoQ outlook adjustments in the US and Europe combine to contribute 22 GW of additional capacity as these markets respond to decarbonisation targets and expected incentive mechanisms.

An expectation that Congress passes a 100% Production Tax Credit extension yields a QoQ upgrade of nearly 12 GW in the US, primarily impacting the 2026 to 2030 period when annual capacity additions will average 18 GW if grid investments materialise. The US is currently ranked second to China in terms of global new capacity this decade, with 150 GW of capacity addition.

India Added >10 GW Solar & Wind Capacity from Jan-Sept’21: Report

Also Read

A 3.3-GW QoQ upgrade in south Europe’s outlook, due primarily to wind developers winning the entirety of a 1.1-GW tech-neutral allotment in October, contributed to nearly 10 GW uplift across Europe this quarter. Upgrades in the rest of the region reflect a broad effort to ramp up compliance toward 2030 targets.

Wood Mackenzie has made minimal adjustments in the QoQ outlook for the Middle East and Africa although advancement of wind builds in South Africa, Oman, Israel, and Egypt indicate development is on pace with the forecast.

Bucking the trend of increasing capacity additions is Japan, who dropped five positions down to 16th position in the top markets for new wind capacity rankings. A 2.5-GW downgrade QoQ in Japan caused by a more conservative offshore target than anticipated resulted in a nearly 800-megawatt downgrade to the outlook for Asia Pacific excluding China. The country is now projected to add 11.7 GW of new capacity this decade.

Vietnam, Asia Pacific’s rising star, reported a 33-fold increase in new capacity additions in just one year as developers have pushed to capitalise on the wind FIT that expired at the end of October. The market is currently ranked 17th in global wind capacity additions with 9.9 GW of new installations expected this decade.

Principal analyst Robert Liew said: “Vietnam has leapt from being an emerging market to become the second largest regional wind market (Asia Pacific excluding China) for capacity additions this year. The official 3.3 GW released by the Ministry of Industry & Trade is likely to include projects that have managed to secure COD certificates despite not being fully completed, as companies rushed to secure wind FITs before it expired at the end of October 2021.”

And coal usage is also going up worldwide 6% coming year.

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5 hours ago, Jay McKinsey said:

He stepped on the accelerator, pure and simple. Tesla's other efforts at accident prevention are way above what is expected in the market. It seems that they likely kept the accident from being much worse.

We will see when it gets to court.