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Kyoto Revisited – The Clean Development Mechanism

October 4, 2011 by TonyfromOz

When I started to contribute at this site in March of 2008, the first Posts I submitted were about the Kyoto Protocol. It was meant to be a short Series, but it morphed into more than 50 separate Posts over 15 weeks, and that started me off here. I was concerned that this might ‘tap […]

The UN and Climate Change – Ten Fateful Words

November 9, 2010 by TonyfromOz

I saw this article on Saturday just gone, and it immediately piqued my interest. Click on the link and read the article before going any further. UN climate panel calls for carbon and transport taxes. Nearly three years ago now, I started contributing posts at this site, in the form of a series on the […]

Milestones (Part One)

March 16, 2010 by TonyfromOz

PART ONE OF TWO PARTS Today marks another of those milestones that almost seem to creep up on you without your even noticing. Two years ago this morning, my first post was submitted to this Blog site. Before that first post here, I had already been contributing on a small scale to a Car Care […]

Kyoto – A Retrospective

July 30, 2008 by TonyfromOz

IS THE KYOTO PROTOCOL A FLAWED IDEAL? In one of the earlier posts (Kyoto 32) there was a comment made and the comment was a relatively simple one. “I hope Kyoto will not fail.” The actuality is that in all probabilities it already has failed, not because we have deliberately set out to make it […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 51)

July 8, 2008 by TonyfromOz

CONCLUSIONS (Part 4) Fifteen weeks ago I started this series of posts. It has been a long and involved process, and if the posts have been long, then I apologise for that. I had hoped to probably extend it out to six posts at the maximum, but the more I looked, the more I found. […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 50)

July 7, 2008 by TonyfromOz

CONCLUSIONS. (Part 3) Are there options to replace those coal fired power plants? Are they viable? Are they affordable? A cutback of one third of those coal fired plants means replacing fifty plants in the large baseload area, fifty plants of 2000MW size, and if it is to be considered seriously, then those mid sized […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 49)

July 6, 2008 by TonyfromOz

CONCLUSIONS. (Part 2) Okay, we’ve established that the largest emission of CO2 comes from those coal fired power plants. Here in the US, we are the most technologically advanced Country on the Planet. Surely then, we can find ways to replace those plants with methods that don’t emit as much CO2. Hatfield’s Ferry Power Plant, […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 48)

July 5, 2008 by TonyfromOz

CONCLUSIONS. The original premise for this long series of posts was this. If the Kyoto Protocol is only in place to preserve the environment for future generations, then, surely, that can only be a good thing. So, why are there Countries holding out on implementing what is called for? In December the Prime Minister of […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 47)

July 3, 2008 by TonyfromOz

STING IN THE TAIL (Part 2) The Climate Change supporters are always apt to quote statistics at you to support their argument, and when taken in isolation, those statistics seem to be quite compelling indeed. However, what is needed is context, and dare I say it, perspective. They will quote things like per capita head, […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 46)

July 1, 2008 by TonyfromOz

STING IN THE TAIL (#1) The Kyoto Protocol calls for the US reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from all sources. That's a 33% reduction in the COAL sector of that power production. This is not partisan politics. If the Democrats get in they'll kick & scream the loudest about ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 45)

June 29, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS. So then, let’s have a look and see if we actually can try and find a way to cut back on the use of power from coal fired plants. One of the problems you have with electricity is that it cannot be transmitted over vast distances, because the voltage diminishes and there is no […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 44)

June 27, 2008 by TonyfromOz

Politicians know one thing, Politics. Whats needed are politicians with the actual will to implement what engineers tell them. 1st item: They need to be FORCED to understand what's needed & WHY it's needed. Politicians then need to engage in the personal task of making the people understand why it's needed. Then ...

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 43)

June 25, 2008 by TonyfromOz

Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Facility Pennsylvania.Image courtesy FirstEnergy Corp. Click on image to open in a larger window. SOLEL Solar Thermal Plant Kramer Valley California.Image courtesy Alan Radecki is a Commons Image. Click on image to open in a larger window. SOLUTIONS In the previous post I mentioned statistics and economics with respect to actual […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 42)

June 23, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS. PLANT REPLACEMENT ECONOMICS. Before deciding on replacements, and then deciding on where they need to be constructed, let’s look at some of the economics, and I know that just by saying that, some readers will probably turn away, but if you ask me, this is not only interesting, it throws up some very surprising […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 41)

June 21, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS (Part 4) REPLACING COAL It’s so easy to believe it when someone tells you that a layer of greenhouse gas has risen to the outer layers of the Earths Atmospheric levels and is holding in the heat generated on the Earth. It’s so easy to get caught up worrying that this heat is having […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 40)

June 19, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS (Part 3) COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. COMBINED HEAT AND POWER This process, Combined heat and Power (CHP) is not something new. As I mentioned in the last post, it was introduced in the 1880’s in Manhattan, and is in fairly widespread, if not unheralded, use throughout the State of New York. When grid power started to […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Erratum)

June 18, 2008 by TonyfromOz

AN ERROR REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION I knew that sooner or later, some of the facts I’ve written here might come back to haunt me, and today I found one. Remember that I’ve said in a couple of places that some things just didn’t seem to be quite right. Those things I tried to chase up […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 39)

June 17, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS (Part 2) COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS Marilyn Monroe in Manhattan. Click on image to open in a larger window. I’ve been reliably informed that I can write articles that might be of an important nature, and gain a small dedicated reader base. However, if I really want a huge number of people to read an article, […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 38)

June 15, 2008 by TonyfromOz

SOLUTIONS (Part 1) INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLD ALTERNATIVES. The average household in the US, and for that fact in nearly every country, is connected to the mains power from the grid. This is a legal requirement. Some households have removed themselves from the grid for one reason or another, but virtually all of them are on that […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 37)

June 13, 2008 by TonyfromOz

REPLACING COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS. Shutting down 15% of the total electrical power production in the US is something that just rolls off the tongue, but what is actually entailed in doing something like this? It’s the closing down of around 50 large baseload coal fired power plants. Again, I have to stress the importance […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 36)

June 11, 2008 by TonyfromOz

AN ABUNDANCE OF INCONVENIENT TRUTHS I’ve included this pie chart again because I want you to look at with more than just a cursory glance, and to achieve that aim, I’m going to refer you back to it a couple of times during this post. I’m a cautious guy, and if I commit something to […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 35)

June 9, 2008 by TonyfromOz

THE ATLAS SHRUGGED PRINCIPLE When I was at high school, we had to do book reviews for English, and we had to do one book a term. Of all those books I only remember three of them, and only one of them I revisited in my adult life. Those three books were John Buchan’s ‘The […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 34)

June 7, 2008 by TonyfromOz

PERCEPTIONS (Part 2) Right at the start of this series, I was debating with myself whether or not to even start at all. The problem I had was this. I come from a background of electrical engineering as an electrical trades technician in the Air Force. Over two years, I completed around forty intensely theoretical […]

Kyoto – A Perspective (Part 33)

June 5, 2008 by TonyfromOz

PERCEPTIONS. When I started out on this series of posts, I hoped to be able to find enough to stretch it to maybe six posts. What I had hoped to achieve was to point out what the Kyoto protocol was all about, what it meant to the average person in the street, and how it […]