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The Green Industrialization of China is powered by coal. China is a prime exporter of all clean technologies: solar, batteries, wind, EVs. The manufacturing of these are mostly powered by coal

Former US president Barack Obama came across a choir of Danish girls practicing their singing in their apartment with their balcony doors open. He kindly asked them if they would keep singing for him to enjoy. 👏❤️

“André de Ruyter says Eskom is unfixable” In South Africa those who argued passionately that ⁦Eskom Hld SOC Ltd⁩ is unfixable, will be the same “experts” that will educate all why load shedding has stopped. mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/53…

Phillip Yancey's wife, Janet, to whom he’s been married for 55 years, said in a statement regarding his 8-year-long adulterous affair: "I, Janet Yancey, am speaking from a place of trauma and devastation that only people who have lived through betrayal can understand. Yet I

South Africa never had a shortage of installed generation capacity. The intention to phase-out coal couldn’t exist simultaneously with the intention to improve its performance. There is now a clear focus on improving performance

Oil, gas and coal runs the world- US Energy Secretary

Always judge ‘experts’ by their track record: ‘There is “almost zero chance” Eskom Hld SOC Ltd or another intervening authority, can end load-shedding in SA any time in the next two years, one of SA’s leading energy experts, UCT's Prof Anton Eberhard, .’ Financial Mail, 2023 Now it’s

It pretty obvious now, that framing ‘inadequate transmission’ as the ‘biggest constraint’ to end loadshedding was another fairytale. Improved EAF solved load-shedding Building transmission lines to connect variable generation adds very little to System Adequacy. Long term

The biggest risk to Security of Supply (Unserved Energy) in RSA, is the timing of the retirement of coal plants in relation to their replacement by CCGT gas capacity, not Transmission & VRE - Medium Term System Adequacy Outlook 2025

Every power system irrespective of the amount of variable energy (solar & wind), have enough dispatchable capacity to supply the total peak demand. For Energy Security, every system should have sufficient dispatchable capacity to supply max demand even if variable energy is at

“60GW of wind installed, only 0.3GW showed up” Jim Robb, NERC As a mandatory rule, renewables require backup from dispatchable capacity for grid reliability. But unreliable dispatchable generation cannot be ‘fixed’ by renewables.

BREAKING: Sources confirm the US House and US Senate have the numbers to pass the bipartisan NATO Unity Protection Act, blocking Trump from taking Greenland by force.

Over 80% of load-shedding( by energy) occurred in three years between 2021 -2023, in the entire recorded history of Eskom Hld SOC Ltd via CSIR 🇿🇦

Jan Smuts appointed Hendrick van der Bijl in 1920 as a Scientific and Industrial Advisor to the Union of South Africa government. Van der Bijl, a physicist and engineer, had authored a paper titled Scientific Research and Industrial Development of South Africa. It became a

BREAKING: Mark Carney slashes Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and announces that up to 49,000 Chinese electric cars will be imported into Canada with only a 6.1% tariff. In return, China has agreed to slash tariffs on canola imports from 84% to 15% by March 1.

There is no Power System Operator in the world who will prescribe the installation of Variable Weather Dependent Generation to solve reliability problems of Dispatchable/Baseload Capacity In fact, it’s almost mandatory that high penetration of Variable Generation must be backed

[THE TECHNO - INDUSTRIAL STATE] Every nation that has transformed itself to higher trajectory of prosperity has done so through industrial & technological advancement : China Taiwan Japan South Korea Indonesia Singapore Vietnam Also think about the British Empire and the

Statement from the Nobel Foundation One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who

When Germany made a political decision to phase-out nuclear power in 2011, the plan was to replace it with solar and wind. After installing ~200GW of solar & wind they have discovered painfully that it was a ‘ huge strategic mistake’ . Now Germany is planning more fossil gas