Graph of the Day: Africa Power Needs: ‘The demand for electricity is going to be significantly greater than the modest targets currently envisioned by the international community’
Graph of the Day: Africa Power Needs
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/10/graph-of-day-africa-power-needs.html
The figure above comes from a post at the Center for Global Development by Todd Moss and Madeleine Gleave. They ask, how much power does Africa really need? Their answer (based on estimates and methods you can read in their post) is … a lot.
Here is their bottom line:
As these countries grow more populated and richer (they are all posting impressive real GDP growth rates), the demand for electricity is going to be significantly greater than the modest targets currently envisioned by the international community.
Nigeria’s ambitious electricity expansion plans to reach 10,000 MW are only the tip of the iceberg. To reach Tunisia-level consumption, it will need at least five times that level of generation.
Even if Power Africa is a success, there’s a whole lot more pent-up demand out there!
Do read the whole thing.
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Physicist: ‘There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster. The terrible toll from Japan’s tsunami came from the wave, not radiation’
Special to Climate Depot via CFACT
October 12, 2013 by Physicist Dr. Kelvin Kemm
I have watched a TV programme called ‘Fear Factor.’ In the series there are contestants who have to confront their worst fears to see who bales out and who can fight the fear and get through.
People who are afraid of heights are made to Bungee-jump off a high bridge, and people who are scared of spiders or insects are made to get in a bath full of spiders.
In virtually all cases the contestants later say that the fearful experience was not actually as bad as they feared. So the fear of the fear was greater than the fear itself ‘when the chips were down.’
This is often the case in life, that the fear of some factor turns out to be worse than the experience itself. The human mind builds a very scary image in the imagination. The imagination then feeds the fear.
If the picture in the imagination is not very specific or clear it is worse, because the fear factor feeds on the unknown.
This is what has happened in the public mind concerning nuclear power over the last half century. Concepts concerning nuclear reactions and nuclear radiation are in themselves complicated and mysterious.
Over the last couple of decades physics advances in fields such as quantum mechanics, which is linked to nuclear processes has compounded matters for the public. The image of strong and mysterious forces and effects is now well entrenched. There are Hollywood movies and TV programmes about space travellers or alien invaders who use time travel and quantum forces, and then battle to evade the dangerous intergalactic nuclear zones.
A consequence of all this is that internationally the public is now really ‘spooked’ when it comes to the topic of nuclear power. A real ‘fear factor’ looms over the mere word ‘nuclear.’ Newspapers love this, and really push imagery like; ‘nuclear leak’ or ‘radiation exposure.’
To a nuclear physicist like me, I look upon such public reaction half with amusement and half with dismay. The amusement comes from the fact that so many people can be scared so easily by so little. It is like shouting: “Ghost in the bedroom,” and everyone runs and hides in the hills.
The dismay reaction is that there is a body of anti-nuclear activists who do not want the public to know
Report indicates no major health effects from Fukushima
Report indicates no major health effects from Fukushima
http://www.cfact.org/2013/07/03/report-indicates-no-major-health-effects-from-fukushima/
When the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, Japan was damaged by a major earthquake, many expected long-term radiation problems. But scientists recently brought together by a UN scientific committee found Japan’s general public and the vast majority of workers at Fukushima are unlikely to suffer any future health effects linked to small radiation leaks.
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Prof. Piekle Jr.: How Fast Does Energy Access Occur? ‘In 1920, only 35% of Americans had electricity access. This total reached 100% by the mid-1950s’
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Updated: Watch Video: Eco-Terror Threats Issued at Rally: Climate Depot attended: ‘We will dismantle the Pipeline’ sign prominently displayed at rally — ‘By any means necessary’
Watch Video: NASA’s James Hansen inspired eco-terror threats?!
Climate rally protestors in DC today boasted that they they will ‘dismantle’ keystone pipeline ‘by any means necessary’
Partial transcript of video:
Climate Depot‘s Marc Morano question: ‘You are not endorsing dismantling physically a violation of the law or any kind of eco terrorism, are you?
Protestor: ‘It depends on the circumstances.
Climate Depot question: ‘It’s a possibility?’
Protestor: ‘By any means necessary, we mean by any means necessary, we would support it’
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The protestors said they were inspired by NASA global warming scientist James Hansen and cited him — saying it would be ‘end game’ for the climate if the pipeline goes forward. They also noted it would be ‘suicide’ for President Obama to approve the pipeline.
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NASA’s James Hansen, a muse to Eco-Terrorists?! Watch Now: Morano on Fox News: ‘NASA’s resident ex-con James Hansen is inspiring these people to potential acts of eco terrorism’ — Morano: ‘These are not just a few disgruntled protesters — The lead NASA global warming scientist – James Hansen — has announced it’s ‘game over’ for the climate if we approve the keystone pipeline. He was arrested for the 3rd or 4th time this past week protesting the pipeline. Hansen has endorsed a book calling for ridding the world of industrial civilization, for blowing up dams and razing cities to the ground and turning off our greenhouse gas machine’
Watch Now: Morano rips NASA’s James Hansen: ‘Hansen said we only have 4 years left to save the planet in Jan.2009, We passed another Mayan calendar deadline’ — Morano: ‘The DC climate rally protesters believe in Hansen’s doomsday prophecy…’This [climate/env.] movement if it gets frustrated — particularly frustrated with Pres. Obama — who is supposed to be their standard bearer — if he actually goes ahead and approves the pipeline — there are going to be a lot of angry people. Not the least of which is NASA’s James Hansen who would be going to jail again’
Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News about ‘Ethical Oil’ & Keystone Pipeline: ‘If we are getting oil from a democracy in Canada [via the Keystone Pipeline], that’s called ethical oil’ — Morano: ‘Ethical oil as opposed to conflict oil — getting it from Nigeria, Venezuela, the Middle East. It’s a very simple choice. Where do we want to get …
Analysis: Shale Gas Glut Is Killing Nuclear Power –‘Cheap natural gas is remaking the U.S. power industry, hastening a shift from traditional fuels such as coal and uranium’
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Africa’s energy consumption growing fastest in world: ‘At 4.1% growth, Africa’s per capita energy consumption is growing faster than anywhere else…’
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On Eve of UN Earth Summit, Green Guru Lovelock Slams UN IPCC & Greens: ‘Whenever UN puts its finger in it seems to become a mess’– ‘So-called sustainable development is meaningless drivel’
[Climate Depot salutes James Lovelock for the courage to publicly reverse himself on key issues as the evidence changes. Also, kudos to UK Guardian reporter Leo Hickman for excellent reporting.]
Climate Depot’s Round Up on James Lovelock:
On Eve of UN Earth Summit, Green Guru Lovelock Slams UN IPCC & Greens: ‘Whenever UN puts its finger in it seems to become a mess’ — ‘The green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion’ — James Lovelock: ”IPCC is too politicized & too internalized’ — On Green religion: ‘I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air’
Green Guru James Lovelock: ‘So-called sustainable development is meaningless drivel’
Flashback April 2012: ‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock reverses himself: I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change & so was Gore! ‘The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago’ — Climate Shocker: In 2007, Lovelock Predicted Global Warming Doom: ‘Billions of us will die; few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in Arctic’
UK Guardian: ‘Scientist James Lovelock is the man behind Gaia theory, and once predicted doom for our climate’ — Lovelock ‘discusses nuclear (good), wind power (bad) and why fracking is the future Lovelock is relaxed about how this reversal might be perceived. He says being allowed to change your mind and follow the evidence is one of the liberating marvels of being an independent scientist’
Lovelock On science:’Science is going down the drain terribly fast. It keeps dividing itself up into expertises and these expertises probably don’t know much about the others’— ‘I think in order to be a fully rounded person you have to learn to be a pro at one thing, but then you can become a generalist’ — ‘I think the most outrageous example of climate scientists getting it wrong and not admitting it was the 2007 IPPC report. They happily accepted the Nobel prize, but their sea-level rise estimates, according to that very important Science paper …
Lovelock on Nuclear Energy: ‘It’s almost probably pointless to support nuclear now. The opposition to it now is just too powerful. It’s not rational opposition. It’s religious opposition’
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Germany’s decision ‘to shut down all its nuclear power plants by 2022 – particularly infuriates Lovelock: Germany has ‘this fatal flaw that they always fall for an ideologue…’
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