Martin Durkin 🇮🇱 #ClimateTheMovie - The Drinking Game

Take one drink whenever:
* graphs are tilted
* strawmen are propped
* key information is omitted
* falsehoods are implied
* lies are stated outright

Don't try this at home kids: you'll die of alcohol poisoning.

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One year after Germany shut down their last three reactor.

Main points:

1. Did Germany increase coal power?
No coal power went down despite zero nuclear. All panic makers were proven wrong.

2. Did Germany increase its carbon intensity (emission factor)?
No Germany emission…

Last year, 44% of the EU's electricity came from renewables, more than the share of fossil fuels. In 13 out of the 27 member states, its share was more than 50%.

Does anyone else find it odd how - for years - conservatives called environmentalists hair-shirt wearing communists… But now, how fast conservatives are to ignore the economics on renewable energy? 🤔

Almost 73% of German load in April has been renewables...

So far in 2024 the renewable share in the German mix has jumped another 4,7 percentage points vs 2023, while fossil fuels have dropped another 17%.

And no, German consumption has actually risen vs 2023.

I put this on TikTok yesterday & it now has over 900k views + however many came from the hundreds of others (many with huge accounts) that downloaded it and put it on their own social. Here is a version without any text on it, just in case someone wants to put it on TV.

It’s…

Kevin Hofner Heico M. Russell Dardedar ciquta 💧 David Mitchell 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 Jeff Steinmetz The Real Tark RichC: enjoying language as all else fails Climatehope J D Matt Lichti Andrew B Buster VL Markle2k alineado alineado Voltaire Stepping on Stepien Mvuleni Glenn Shadrake MassiveCarbonPrint David Evans Hanno Klausmeier Henry Madison Arti16📯 💧simon holmes à court For Freedom and Liberty Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Old Mate Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson Jeff Silvan Glenne Drover Tom Brown David Osmond Tk I think I already showed you this. This J for J replacement actually overstates the amount of solar needed because in many applications, 1 TWh of solar can replace 2-3 TWh of FF. Also, we can get at least 10% from rooftop solar, and much more from agrovoltaics.

J D The Real Tark Markle2k Dardedar 💧 David Mitchell RichC: enjoying language as all else fails Climatehope Matt Lichti Andrew B 🇺🇦Proud European from🇪🇺🇦🇹 🌏 ciquta Buster VL alineado alineado Voltaire Stepping on Stepien Mvuleni Glenn Shadrake MassiveCarbonPrint David Evans Hanno Klausmeier Kevin Hofner Henry Madison Arti16📯 💧simon holmes à court For Freedom and Liberty Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Old Mate Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson Jeff Silvan Glenne Drover Tom Brown David Osmond Tk The myth of 'Baseload.'

Milestone: solar beats coal during March in Texas!

TX generates & consumes more electricity than any other state. Demand is rising rapidly & solar generation is skyrocketing in TX.

Solar exceeding coal for a month in TX is a clean energy milestone!
ieefa.org/resources/texa…

European Union continuing last years trend or even turbocharging it in 1st quarter 2024.

For the first time ever Wind+solar produce more than fossils!

Wind+solar +11,7% (184 TWh)
Wind +9,7% (149 TWh)
Solar +21% (35 TWh)
Hydro +25,6% (94 TWh)

Fossil fuels -17,2% (172 TWh)

Can't sell new coal plants so shift to nuke fantasy because it
a) takes forever & lets them keep burning carbon longer
b) makes super expensive uncompetitive kWh, keeping prices up
Gotta slow that RE down because people can make their own, & it's cheap.

Good morning with good news: Solar may be USA's largest source of electricity by 2035! That new energy world is not a pipe dream.

26% solar CAGR from 2023-2028 is possible and would get solar to ~900 billion kilowatt-hours by 2028. Solar will generate more than hydro in 2024.

Nuclear Energy Inst. PSEG Meanwhile, former head of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) says:

'In the nuclear celebratory mood of the moment, there is little patience or political will for sober voices to discuss the reality that new nuclear power is actually many decades away from having any…

It seems Matt Ridley thinks The Telegraph readers are idiots

Let's run the numbers:

244,000km2 = area of the UK
5-10% = share of UK Matt says would need to be covered with solar to meet electricity demand in June

40MW = solar capacity per km2
500-1,000GW = solar capacity, if…

People are consistently underestimating growth in solar and batteries.

7.9 TWh is enough to store the full daily production of over 1 TW of solar. The world will soon be able to add multiple terawatts of solar + storage every year.

Demand for batteries is extremely elastic. As…

Hmmm...US electricity demand barely grew since 2005, even as Data Centers grew to ~18GW of demand by 2023!

Mckinsey says Data Centers will add ~17GW by 2030. That barely moves national demand. Also, US will add 51 GW of capacity in 2024! Data Center growth is easily manageable.

Your regular reminder that solar farms take up less of the UK than golf courses - even on a pathway to net-zero

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In response to a claim that using electricity more efficiently, or making it with renewables, involves working harder and living less.

Renewables cover 89% of Portugal’s electricity needs in first three months of 2024

- that’s up from 73% in the same quarter last year

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/03/ren…

This is what the transition will look like.

Norway as a test case.

Petrol use is set to collapse suddenly, which will send shockwaves in the world order.

(Geopolitical note: China is leading the push. Why? Because oil is one of the few fields they don't command.)