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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: December 3, 2014, 1:29 pm
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OPEC Oil Price Squeeze To Leave Renewable Energy Unscathed
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Reed Landberg, Bloomberg
December 03, 2014 | 1 Comments
Lima, Peru — While OPEC is helping drive down global prices for
crude, it’s having less success squeezing the $250 billion clean
power industry.
Green energy will receive almost 60 percent of the $5 trillion
expected to be invested in new power plants over the next
decade, according to the International Energy Agency. That’s
because the U.S., China, Japan and the European Union are all
pushing for global limits on greenhouse gases and promoting
alternatives to fossil fuels.
The effort has resulted in local and national incentive policies
for renewable power around the world, effectively insulating the
industry from market fluctuations such as the almost 40 percent
plunge in crude oil since June. So while drillers clamp down on
spending, developers are on track to invest more than $250
billion this year on wind, solar, geothermal and other types of
renewable power, the first gains in two years, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg.
“Renewables are supported by policies, and that is not something
that will be amended quickly just because oil prices fall ;D,”
Takashi Hongo, a senior fellow at Mitsui Global Strategic
Studies Institute, which advises the Japanese government on
energy policy, said in an interview in Tokyo. “There will be
hardly any impact.”
‘Massive’ Impact
Of course, the longer oil remains at its current level, the more
likely that the subsidies will be called into question. In
China, for example, government support has made the country the
biggest market for wind and solar power.
“If oil stays at current prices or weakens through the first
half of next year, the impact on new energy would be massive,”
said Lin Boqiang, director of the Energy Economics Research
Center at Xiamen University, speaking of the situation in China.
“Weakening oil prices would hamper the competitiveness of new
energy. The government has to subsidize the new energy industry
to support its development.”
Oil prices reached a five-year low yesterday, after OPEC, the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, opted last week
not to lower production targets.
As envoys from more than 190 nations meet in Peru for a round of
United Nations-organized negotiations to step up the fight
against global warming, there was no sign of waning political
support for curbing emissions.
‘Low-Carbon Future’
“We’re all old enough to know that oil prices go up and down,”
said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which organizes
the talks. “The fact that oil is so unpredictable
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which has a completely predictable cost of zero for fuel.”
In Washington, the State Department official who speaks for
President Barack Obama on climate, said a “low-carbon future” is
essential for the U.S. and that the policy won’t be revised due
to oil prices.
So far, declining oil prices haven’t affected what countries say
they are willing to do, said Todd Stern, the U.S. envoy who will
join the talks in Peru next week.
“The need from the point of view of climate, health and energy
security all point toward the imperative for transforming our
economies from high to low carbon,” Stern said in an interview
in Washington. “That transformation is the solution side of
climate change.”
In Brussels, the IEA, which was formed to advise industrial
nations on energy policy after the first oil shock in 1973, said
governments must remain focused on cutting carbon dioxide
emissions blamed for damaging the climate.
Global Power
“What is important is not to be lulled into a false sense of
security,” Maria van der Hoeven, the executive director of the
IEA, said at a briefing in Brussels. “Fossil fuels will be a
very important part of our energy supply. It’s important not to
be too obsessed with lower oil prices.” ;)
Renewables remain a tiny fraction of the world’s power supply,
accounting for about 5 percent of the electricity generated,
according to the most recent data from the IEA. That’s up from 1
percent in 1990. Current policies put it on track to reach 12
percent by 2040.
Investment in clean energy is growing rapidly. The industry took
in $175 billion in the first nine months of this year, according
to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. About $2.95 trillion may be
invested by 2040 compared with $1.49 trillion for fossil- fuel
power plants, the IEA estimates.
Japan Investments
In Japan, where the government introduced an incentive program
in 2012 following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, investment in
solar energy more than tripled to $29.6 billion in 2013 from
2010 levels, data from London-based BNEF show.
“Japan doesn’t use a lot of oil in its power generation, so it
doesn’t make a lot of difference,” said Andrew DeWit, a
professor in the School of Policy Studies at Rikkyo University
in Tokyo. “The short answer is that it’s probably not going to
have a huge hit on Japan’s renewables.”
Japan, though the world’s largest importer of liquefied natural
gas, relies on oil for 19 percent of its electricity generation,
according to BNEF data. The nation could be on course this year
to surpass China as the world’s largest solar market as measured
by annual capacity installations.
“The oil price doesn’t affect electricity generation that much,”
Lyndon Rive, chief executive officer of SolarCity Corp., said in
an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Even with all- time-low
natural gas prices, the cost of energy has gone up. You have
transmission and distribution and infrastructure you have to pay
for. It’s aging and getting old and requires constant upgrades.”
Market Forces
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Beyond political support, renewables are isolated from market
forces by the structure of the electricity industry.
Most governments support clean energy either by offering feed-in
tariffs -- fixed prices for power fed into the grid -- or by
holding auctions to buy a certain amount of generating capacity.
Once set, those contracts can’t be revised, meaning renewable
power plants in operation now will probably continue to do so
for years to come.
Jurisdictions buy renewables both to reduce pollution and as a
hedge against rising costs for other fuels. Since wind and solar
don’t require fuel, their costs can be charted for decades,
offering stability that oil, gas and coal can’t provide.
“There is absolutely no guarantee that oil prices will continue
at this level,” said Taro Saito, director of economic research
at the NLI Research Institute in Tokyo. “So of course from the
point of view of those who are pushing renewable energy, there
is no reason to suddenly give up.”
Cheaper oil doesn’t have a straightforward impact on the
political debate, said Alden Meyer, who follows climate policy
for Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an
interview in Lima.
“It lessens the argument that there are going to be huge costs
in the transition to cleaner energy,” Meyer said. “We’re
actually starting into that transition, and it has reduced
costs.”
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A. G. Gelbert
December 3, 2014
Yep. This skullduggery worked in the 1980's. It's NOT going to
strangle Renewable Energy NOW for the sake of Profit Over
Planet, war profiteering and price shock control of our energy
spigot through the purchase of politicians this time.
We-the-people of planet earth understand 'how it works' for the
dirty energy industries now. The more the fossil fuelers
dissemble to us, threaten and/or bribe politicians to continue
the unsustainable and polluting status quo, the more determined
we-the-people will be to destroy the demand for dirty energy and
hasten the demise of those biosphere killing fossil and nuclear
fuels.
Watch this one minute clip to learn why Natural Capitalism is
the only REAL Capitalism. Modern so-called "Capitalism" (i.e.
Crapitalism!) actually SHRINKS, DEGRADES and DESTROYS Capital!
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Go ahead, dirty energy producing criminals, make our day.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: December 11, 2014, 1:19 am
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[move][font=courier]In its latest report released Wednesday,
OPEC also reduced its global demand forecast to 28.9 million
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I LOVE the smell of DEMAND DESTRUCTION for fossil fuels! ;D
Read more:
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The Schlumberger Walking DEAD
By: AGelbert Date: December 17, 2014, 8:47 pm
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The Schlumberger Walking DEAD: They've already lost 10 billion
from their 110 billion market cap in less than a year. Watch as
this 100 billion dollar polluting beast (stock symbol SLB) turns
into NADA in the next THREE YEARS. Enjoy the ride, worshipers of
fracking.
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Schlumberger N.V. (Schlumberger), incorporated on November 6,
1956, is the supplier of technology, integrated project
management and information solutions to the international oil
and gas exploration and production industry. The Company’s
segments include Reservoir Characterization Group, which
consists of the principal technologies involved in finding and
defining hydrocarbon deposits; Drilling Group, which consists of
the principal technologies involved in the drilling and
positioning of oil and gas wells, and Production Group consists
of the principal technologies involved in the lifetime
production of oil and gas reservoirs and includes Well Services,
Completions, Artificial Lift, Well Intervention, Subsea, Water
Services, Carbon Services and the Schlumberger Production
Management field production projects. [img width=50
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Reservoir Characterization Group
Reservoir Characterization Group consists of the principal
Technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon
resources. These include WesternGeco, Wireline, Testing
Services, Schlumberger Information Solutions and PetroTechnical
Services. WesternGeco is the geophysical services company,
providing worldwide reservoir imaging, monitoring and
development services. WesternGeco offers the industry’s
multiclient data library. Wireline provides the information
necessary to evaluate subsurface formation rocks and fluids to
plan and monitor well construction, and to monitor and evaluate
well production. Wireline offers both openhole and cased-hole
services, including wireline perforating. [img width=50
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Testing Services provides exploration and production pressure
and flow-rate measurement services both at the surface and
downhole. The Technology also provides tubing-conveyed
perforating services. Schlumberger Information Solutions
provides software, consulting, information management and
information technology (IT) infrastructure services that support
core oil and gas industry operational processes. Schlumberger
Information Solutions provides software, consulting, information
management and IT infrastructure services that support core oil
and gas industry operational processes. PetroTechnical Services
supplies interpretation and integration of all exploration and
production data types, as well as expert consulting services for
reservoir characterization, field development planning
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training solutions.
Drilling Group
Drilling Group consists of the principal Technologies involved
in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells and
consists of Bits & Advanced Technologies, M-I SWACO,
Geoservices, Drilling & Measurements, PathFinder, Drilling Tools
& Remedial Services, Dynamic Pressure Management and Integrated
Project Management well construction projects. [img width=50
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/>& Advanced Technologies designs, manufactures and markets roll
er
cone and fixed cutter drill bits for all environments. The drill
bits include designs for market segments where faster
penetration rates. The technologies leverage modeling and
simulation software for the design of application-specific bits
and cutting structures.
M-I SWACO is the supplier of drilling fluid systems engineered
to improve drilling performance by anticipating fluids-related
problems, fluid systems and specialty equipment designed to
optimize wellbore productivity and production technology
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safely manage
waste volumes generated in both drilling and production
operations. Geoservices supplies mud logging services for
geological and drilling surveillance. Drilling & Measurements
and PathFinder provide directional-drilling,
measurement-while-drilling and logging-while-drilling services
for all well profiles, as well as engineering support. Drilling
Tools & Remedial provides a range of bottom hole assembly
drilling tools, borehole enlargement technologies and impact
tools, as well as a collection of tubulars and tubular services
for oil and gas drilling operations. Dynamic Pressure Management
consolidates managed pressure drilling and underbalanced
drilling into a single provider of engineered solutions for
pressure drilling services.
Production Group
Production Group consists of the principal Technologies involved
in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs and
includes Well Services, Completions, Artificial Lift, Well
Intervention, Subsea, Water Services, Carbon Services and
Schlumberger Production Management field production projects.
Well Services provides services used during oil and gas well
drilling and completion as well as those used to maintain
optimal production throughout the life of a well. The services
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Completions supplies well completion services and equipment that
include packers, safety valves, sand control technology as well
as a range of intelligent ;)well completions technology and
equipment. Artificial Lift provides production equipment and
optimization services using electrical submersible pumps and gas
lift equipment, as well as surface horizontal pumping systems.
Well Intervention develops coiled tubing equipment and services
and provides slickline services for downhole mechanical well
intervention, reservoir monitoring and downhole data
acquisition. Subsea offers solutions that are designed to
improve reservoir recovery optimize production and maximize
production uptime of subsea assets. Water Services specializes
in the development, management and environmental protection of
water resources.
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Carbon
Services provides geological storage solutions, including
storage site characterization for carbon dioxide
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My advice to anybody that owns stock in this Polluting PIG is to
SELL or you will lose your arse. ;D
[font=times new roman]El Que No Oye Consejo, No Llega a
Viejo.[/font]
The translation is this: He who does not listen to advice does
not make it to old age. (it rhymes in Spanish!) ;D
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: January 6, 2015, 2:33 pm
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6 Reasons 2015 Will Be a Tough Year for Big Oil
Hannah McKinnon, Oil Change International
Things don’t seem to be getting any easier for Big Oil and I am
going to venture a guess that 2015 is going to be their toughest
year yet.
Here are a few of the hurdles that are only going to grow for
the industry over the coming year:
Science
You can ignore the science, resist the science or support
politics that doesn’t believe in science, but you can’t change
the science. 2014 captured the title of hottest year on record,
marking the 38th consecutive year that global temperatures have
been above average. California is still grappling with the
impacts of the biggest drought in memory, and “once in a
century” storms, floods, fires and droughts have become a joke
as they hit with increasing frequency.
Big Oil can’t change the fact that their product is driving
dangerous climate change, nor the fact that if the world is
going to avoid the worst of it, the majority of fossil fuels
that we know exist are going to have to stay underground. The
science is definitive and decision makers are running out of
ways to avoid taking it seriously.
People
People get it. More than 400,000 of them came to the biggest
climate march in history in New York in September with tens of
thousands more joining marches in hundreds of cities around the
world. Across North America, people are stopping tar sands
pipelines. There is not a single major tar sands pipeline that
is not threatened by public opposition on the continent, and
these delays are making a dent in pollution and are a material
risk to fossil fuel expansion.
Driving and inspiring much of this opposition is resistance from
people on the front lines of climate change and fossil fuel
extraction: First Nations in Alberta standing up to the tar
sands, landowners in Nebraska saying no to the inevitable risks
of Keystone XL, and vulnerable and impacted communities globally
refusing to let climate impacts go unnoticed. This movement is
growing by the minute.
Economics
Even before the precipitous fall of oil prices in late 2014,
fossil fuel projects were being cancelled in places like the tar
sands and the Arctic Ocean. It is quite simply not great
economics to bet the farm on high cost, high risk, and high
carbon projects. Even with oil prices more than $100 per barrel
in early 2014, three major tar sands projects were mothballed
due to uncertain economics (driven in large part by public
concern and transportation constraints).
Now, with oil prices a shadow of what they were kicking off
2014, analysts say at least $59 billion dollars of capital is on
the brink of deferral in the tar sands over the coming 3 years,
with the potential of knocking off 650,000 barrels of oil per
day. Bad news for big oil, great news for the climate. Countries
and regions that made the high risk bet to balance their budgets
based on high oil prices are scrambling, and everyone is
absorbing the harsh reminder that oil prices are unstable,
unpredictable, and uncertain.
The concepts of stranded assets and unburnable carbon gained
even more traction over the past year, with the Governor of the
Bank of England saying in no uncertain terms that the majority
of fossil fuel reserves are unburnable. This echoed messages
from the likes of the International Energy Agency and the World
Bank—not exactly environmental activists. The mainstream
economic chatter is changing.
On top of this are the people-powered movements calling for
divestment from fossil fuels. These campaigns are moving
billions; not enough to topple the industry, but enough to
command attention and prove that this conversation has the moral
magnitude of other historic successful divestment campaigns.
Politics
Admittedly, this is the slow moving beast. The perpetual
challenge is getting politics and politicians to look beyond
terms and think about the well being of anything more than 4 or
8 years down the road. Especially when this means turning their
backs on the fossil fuel lobby, which has been pouring money
into keeping friendly politicians in power for decades.
That said—all hope is not lost. President Obama has made some
inspiring and ambitious remarks on climate, and with a final
Keystone XL decision sitting on his desk, recent statements
suggest he is poised to make the right call, change the status
quo, and reject the pipeline. The climate deal between China and
the U.S. is also promising and shifted the global political
discussions in a meaningful way. Across the continent,
politicians are feeling the heat on their inaction on climate
change. In Canada, heading into an election year, poll-leading
opposition leaders are starting to backtrack on previous support
for major tar sands infrastructure.
The message is starting to penetrate: A failure to act on
climate change will have political costs.
Competition
Renewables are putting a squeeze on fossil fuels. Solar energy
had some spectacular breakthroughs in 2014 and the growth in
solar capacity in the first three quarters of last year
represented 36 percent of new electricity capacity in the U.S.
(compared to 9.6 percent in 2012). In Germany, solar generated
half of the country’s electricity on one day in June, setting
both records and precedent for what we can expect from the
rapidly improving and increasingly affordable technology.
Other leaps have been made in the sector, with wind and
electrification of transport. Low oil prices are an obvious risk
to renewables, especially in a world where fossil fuels continue
to receive unnecessary subsidies and renewables are forced to
play on an uneven playing field (it is high time to Stop Funding
Fossils by the way). However, Bloomberg has done some number
crunching that suggests that we should not assume that demand
for oil would soar with the price drop and analysts are saying
that energy markets today are markedly evolved and renewables
will hold their own.
Paris
In late 2015, Paris will host the climate talks, the meeting
where global leaders are supposed to hammer out the next big
deal. While we are not holding our breath for leaders to rise to
the occasion in any spectacular way, one thing we are certain
about is that they are going to feel the heat.
Let’s make 2015 the year that puts an end once and for all to
the myth that fossil fuels are an inevitable centerpiece of our
future. The real inevitability is an era where Big Oil is no
longer the status quo, and where we build our communities,
economies and lives around energy that that is safe, reliable
and clean.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: January 7, 2015, 2:49 pm
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Schlumberger Limited. (NYSE:SLB) was downgraded by equities
researchers at Societe Generale from a “buy” rating to a “hold”
rating in a research report issued on Tuesday,
TheFlyOnTheWall.com reports.
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July 3, 2014 closing stock price $117.50 (2014 PEAK SLB closely
matches oil price high for 2014).
SLB has a Mkt cap of 126.44B and operates in 80 countries. SLB
has EXTENSIVE gas drilling operations in the USA
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SLB market cap drops a billion here and a billion there. Pretty
soon we are talking about real MONEY (i.e FRACKER PAIN).
Calling all frackers (i.e. all those fine folks that are making
ALTRUISTIC SACRIFICES FOR ALL OF US PIGGIES DEMANDING FOSSIL
FUELS): SLB is a HUGE BUYING OPPORTUNITY! It's time for you to
PROVE your loyalty to this SAFE, PRUDENT, LOGICAL, BRIDGE FUEL,
AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE PROVIDING technology! Dollar cost
average! Mortgage your Volt! Sell your MOTHER! BUY!, BUY! BUY!
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And by all means, ignore that Agelbert whacko's posts about
Renewable Energy eating fossil fuel profits alive and his
defamatory and thoroughly inaccurate predictions about SLB stock
tanking. He doesn't understand the REAL WORLD and he DOESN'T DO
THE MATH. Just ignore his rants and BUY, BUY, BUY!
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Watch as this 100 billion dollar polluting beast (stock symbol
SLB) turns into NADA in the next THREE YEARS
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[font=times new roman]El que no coje consejo, no llega a Viejo.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: January 7, 2015, 6:39 pm
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A sampling of several (36 at last count) comments on this
article
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"real world". 8)
[quote] Terry Hallinan
January 4, 2015
"Due to the beliefs of those in power, and the stalemate that
they have caused over climate change policy, it is time for
people to look elsewhere"
To the "moneyed interests" the founding fathers so feared but
hoped pitchforks would be an antidote, you think?
To the handmaidens of the fossil fuel purveyors, the dunces
pushing undependable sometime renewable power, primarily wind
and solar, that guarantees a major place for the fossil fuel
misanthropes that threaten human and other life on the planet?
Aside from looking to building pitchfork factories, how about
looking to cheap, abundant, baseload power?
Not enough money in that you think?
I beg your pardon. It is not enough monopoly, too much inertia
and way too little intelligent thinking. Countries outside North
America are doing very, very well with baseload renewable power
like geothermal and biomass that are greener than the mythical
St. Patrick was supposed to be. America mostly prefers fantasy
to fact and that is very costly.
Best, Terry
sean o
January 4, 2015
Terry,
Instead of pitchforks, or waiting for some corporation to
provide stable baseload, solar does nicely to cut your bills and
sends a nice lil message to utilities. "hey we can do this too".
I think it was like 5% of rural amaerican homes with like 20kw
of solar panels could produce enough energy to supply the us
like 1/4 of an acre. You don't need the pitchforks just a few
solar panels, and bonus points for having an EV.
Mele Coronato
January 6, 2015
If we want to win the race against time we really cannot afford
to wait for CEO's and their corporations any more. Indeed it
appears even the most fatal and stupid thing to do. Here is a
crystal clear explanation, perfectly worded by someone who
dedicated his life to the uncomfortable yet highly rewarding
(sic) workload resulting from that insight:
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PJ van Staden
January 6, 2015
All in all, if there is one thing, one most important thing for
the renewable industry to do, I fully agree with Hermann Scheer
that we should get the public educated and behind us.
Why should our world be held hostage by a small group of
psychopathic control freaks who think they can keep us dependent
on their monopolistic and undemocratic energy supplies? Why is
control so important to them? Its because they cannot make a
decent living on their own in a democratic regime!
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As the public voice rise against their polluting and killing CO2
empires, they immediately look and grasp for another control
instrument, named "nuclear", upon which they can set forth their
creation of a centralized dependence upon them for energy? As if
they believe all the world is still blind to their inferior,
corrupting and criminal mentality?
But then again, we have another alternative to the alternative:
The knowledge they don't possess and are not aware of. So, let
them, together with their lame puppets in politics, keep
throwing their investments after their gluttonous desires.
For they shall faint. Instead of breeding more, these
investments shall consume everything thrown at them. And these
lame puppets, they shall walk out naked after their time in the
office, stripped of all dignity.
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Energy is soon going fully distributed! Centralized energy is
dead! You believe it!
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January 7, 2015
Hi: Coming late to the party, however, I did read a few of the
posts, particularly the first post of Jared B. Fairly well put
with a pretty good analogy via the medical area.
Regarding the article, CEO's to save us!! Are you kidding? If
the article is just another form of a resume posting aimed at
getting hired by FF industries, then a job well done. ;D
Changes in internal management by extractive industries are
aimed at cost cutting and PR value. Their very business is
toxic. By definition they cannot solve the problem.
The carbon (GHG's) must be left in the ground. Naomi Klein in
her book, "This Changes Everything", lays it out fairly well.
Our very model of running this planet, capitalism of one form or
another is the problem. You criticize politicians however they
are just mouthing the desires of the extractive industries that
OWN them. In short, just part of the puppet show.
Do you really think, author of this article, that the fossil
fuel corporations are going to voluntarily strangle trillions of
dollars in current "in ground" assets? The human animal, let
alone the system, is not wired that way.
People smoke cigarettes even though it will give them cancer and
a host of other diseases and painfully kill them. But they do
it. Why? Because the death is too far away. It is not a gun
pointed at their head at this moment. The same holds for the
demise of our entire species. Pulling all that carbon from the
ground will complete the sixth great mass extinction, including
us.
Will we do it? Of course, because the death is too far off. This
is a base human problem without even going to the problem of
Capitalism(s).
Regarding Grace's comment where she repeats her idea of "buying
off" the FF's corps., again, you cannot buy them off anymore
than you can pay a blackmailer to stop blackmailing you. It is a
false hope and ill-founded idea... Her other ideas are pretty
much on track.
Most of what you see in our current world, 50 year window, is a
result of income inequality. The disparity in wealth is so great
it is almost unbelievable. The tolerance the masses have shown
regarding this development is almost as equally unbelievable.
The main reason for the tolerance shown, in my opinion, is that
the masses want too badly to have a piece of the problem, and
think they can, by the numbers get it, within the system. So it
would seem, you can fool all the people all of the time....
Enough said....
.....Bill[/quote]
Bill is definitely a Doomer! ;D Bill is a good guy and he and I
are generally in agreement on most issues.
However, unlike him, I believe there is still some hope. The
fact that an article like this DID NOT generate ANY mockery and
hard truths a year ago shows people ARE waking up.
Here's a nice comment with some "touchy feely" stuff the fossil
fuelers hate. ;D But this fellow is a real 'do the math'
inventor that understands energy thermodynamics quite well. His
first language is not English so please ignore his grammar. He
makes his point(s) quite eloquently, in my opinion.
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[quote]Fartadi Marian
January 4, 2015
You should be looking for better technologies than the ones that
aren´t convincing everybody.
"--------------------------" for helping the inventors of the
new and better renewable tech, instead of helping the non
efficient old tech.
":--------------------------" for money and economical benefits
rather than only for spiritual meanings.
¿Did you know that having a 5 MW/year Captor of sun and wind (
CSW ) on your roof the equivalent production of energy that you
will get out of your own property is between 25000 liters and
75000 liters of pure gasoline for a period of 25 t0 50 year?
And an average roof can handle more than 5 to 10 units of CSW
that will make your house/property even more valuable than any
oil whole, and will pay you back the equivalent of about 250000$
and 750000$ during your life time and you will leave to your
children the most valuable heritage, because a renewable roof is
forever, instead of selling your house to buy the oil that you
will run out of it anyway!
Give the chance to every citizen by offering them better and
affordable renewable products and then expect things to get
better, because you won't make the spring with few flowers but
with many yes you will
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Not CEOs or politicians running this world, are the MEDIA PEOPLE
who makes CEOs and politicians, and makes you buy the products
that consumes fossils or renewable.
With the social networks/bidirectional media ( dark social
networks about 75% and FB TW G+ the rest of it ) you can shape
the way people get aware of their own problems and how they can
transform the problems in something that can give them material
and spiritual benefits.
Fight for your freedom
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ns
of the slavery that the fuels tied you with and watching you
dying and suffering, and choose freedom and renewable. and you
will win for ever for you for your people and for all the
generations that will come, without violence.
Be smart, be clever, get yourself rich and powerful, go ONLY
ELECTRIC and forget about fuels that are the past, ELECTRIC IS
THE FUTURE.
The fuel century, the worst one in the human history is over
with all the crimes and damage that were are and still doing to
you and to your people.
Chose only ELECTRIC and CLEAN EFFICIENT AND RENEWABLE, and help
this world to be a spring with your flower too.
I love you, we love you, we want you free healthy and rich, this
is why we work even the sundays, but you have to UNDERSTAND and
to CHOSE the right for you and for the others, be a good CEO or
politician, and don´t you be afraid of anybody because the
hugest army in the world: the HUMANITY will always be with you..
LOVE AND PEACE[/quote]
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
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Republican Pushes Solar Forward in Florida
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SustainableBusiness.com News
In Florida, where regulators recently eliminated solar rebates,
there's a new group pushing for "energy freedom" in the state
and it's led by a Republican.
Tory Perfetti
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signatures for a referendum in the 2016 elections. If it passes,
it would be a milestone for clean energy because it would allow
people who generate solar to sell the electricity to others,
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[quote]"Floridians have a right to choose where their energy
comes from,"[/quote] Perfetti told Tampa Bay Times. Giving
people a choice is a core conservative principle, and it brought
the Tea Party and environmental community together to get solar
going in Georgia under the Green Tea Coalition.
The measure would allow business or property owners to produce
up to 2 megawatts of solar and sell the power to people at the
same or contiguous property. Building owners, for example, could
sell electricity to tenants and homeowners could sell to
neighbors.
Florida Referendum 2016
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states
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that bars
solar leasing companies like SolarCity from selling electricity
- they can only make money (not much) through monthly lease
payments for the systems they install. Utilities in Wisconsin
and Iowa recently tested the waters on banning solar leasing
altogether and failed.
The political action committee, Floridians for Solar Choice,
has been formed to drive the referendum forward and it's getting
support from other local Republican groups, Democrats, the local
solar industry and environmental groups.
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"I think the people understand that ... the power companies have
been running the show in Florida for too long," [/quote]Rep.
Dwight Dudley (D-St. Petersburg), told the Times. [quote]"I'm
very excited and happy they're doing it."
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They need 683,149 signatures to get it on the ballot and then
60% of voters have to say Yes for it to pass as an amendment to
the state's constitution.
Clearly, there will be lots of pushback [i]from utilities and
the usual suspects
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[/i]- ALEC, Koch Brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity and
many other conservative groups who say ::) they are for
individual freedom, except when it comes to policies they don't
like.
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Debbie Dooley, who was behind the Green Tea Coalition in
Georgia, is helping out in Florida and is also looking at
Virginia and Wisconsin, with a goal of a national push that
challenges utilities' monopoly on electricity sales.
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: February 5, 2015, 2:21 pm
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Here's some excellent information about fossil fuel demand
rejection:
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: February 5, 2015, 2:44 pm
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Ahem. My dear fellow,what you are observing is a head fake gone
awry.
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You see, Big Oil figured WRONGLY that if they gamed the price
lower on the partially true premise that tanking economies
destroy demand, thereby increasing supply and causing lower
prices (see Zero Hedge, TBP and Mking economics world view
;D), we-the-dumb-fucks would all go out and buy SUVs, among
other "usual" activities the fossil fuelers have gamed us into
doing for about a century.
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But their "too clever by a half" ruse did not figure DEMAND
REJECTION (from renewable energy) into their profit over people
and planet calculus; an error of judgement that will help ensure
their bankruptcy. Boo hoo.
Renewable energy=
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Re: Fossil Fuel Profits Getting Eaten Alive by Renewable Energy!
By: AGelbert Date: February 9, 2015, 1:47 am
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First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment
Movement Heats Up
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Cole Mellino
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[quote][size=12pt]February brought even more excitement for the
global divestment campaign. Norway’s Government Pension Fund
Global reported yesterday that a total of 114 companies had been
dumped because of their risk to the climate, according to The
Guardian. While the wealth fund moved billions of dollars in
assets out of shares in fossil fuel companies, it still has
billions invested in other fossil fuel companies.
Still, as the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, its move to
divest has a large impact. Here’s a tweet by Bill McKibben
yesterday sharing the news:
Norway made all its $ on oil, but now dumping fossil fuel
stocks. The Rockefeller of countries
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