Adenium

Building resilient infrastructure

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

1/ What is Adenium?
The world is more divided and uncertain than ever. Political, economic and climate crises exacerbate an already fragile environment creating an especially nervous time for geopolitical relations. Resilience is needed.

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

In the 1960s #coal plants complied with the Clean Air Act by just building taller smoke stacks - technically no pollution was present at ground level.

Are we side-skirting emissions laws again by outsourcing them to #China et al?

[Tomas @Tomas_lmd]

@MaxCRoser To what extent has this reduction in emissions been achieved by outsourcing the manufacturing?

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

Did you know that by integrating trees into agricultural landscapes, we can sequester carbon, improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and provide farmers with extra income streams. Let's accelerate the adoption of agroforestry to create a more resilient and sustainable future.

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Landlocked #Bhutan emphasizes GNH (Gross National Happiness) over GDP. GNH prioritizes:
- Sustainable development
- Good governance
- Resilient culture

No wonder Bhutan leverages its vast hydropower to mine #bitcoin and build economic resilience.

https://t.co/4xufSfv7tY

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Applied at scale:

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Concentrated solar power 😏

No need to excessively mine for photovoltaic materials, just water and mirrors producing clean power.

#SolarPower #renewables

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Parabolic mirrors concentrate sunlight and convert it directly into heat.

Watch this one boil a kettle

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

#Bitcoin mining helps build resilience in vulnerable communities by supporting renewable energy economics - it is a flexible demand source.

Low-income regions can now build clean power and earn passive BTC.

Very cool @ihate1999 and @GridlessCompute

https://t.co/8lRqMqfivB

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Our #RenewableEnergy revolution will be a pyrrhic victory if we destroy our precious resources in the process.

Driving an EV won't save the planet if its materials destroyed a forest or a water source.

Clean energy must have clean origins.

[Frédéric Simon @FredSimonEU]

Facing water stress: Chile’s lithium industry under scrutiny in Atacama Desert. Joint byline with @Paul_Messad. https://t.co/7C5tP8Kf8e

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Mining, sorting, processing, manufacturing, delivery - every vertical of the renewable supply-chain is dependent on gasoline, diesel, coal or #natgas .

Until e-fuels, SMRs or geothermal scale sufficiently, some fossil fuels must remain to ensure #EnergySecurity.

[Peter Wood @Peter__Wood]

If energy security is a priority it’s prudent to scale-up renewables BEFORE scaling-down oil/gas. The energy to manufacture wind turbines, heat pumps, home insulation, batteries, solar cells etc will be predominantly fossil based for a while yet.

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Too many people fall for the illusion that economic strength means high emissions. No.

France, Nordics, Netherlands and Spain are all powerful economies with low emissions per capita thanks to #CleanEnergy policies.

Germany on the other hand...

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

NEW DATA: Latest CO2 emissions data for every power plant in the EU. #euets #opendata
https://t.co/25RugqXnr4

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Astounding and alarming.

"It now takes an average of 23 years from discovery of a copper resource to a producing mine"

Government must cut red tape to allow #copper mines to scale up production. Miners must also fix their poor PR image.

[Isaac Orr @TheFrackingGuy]

Weird how that works. https://t.co/3uOWSHiXz1

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Energy resilience requires dispatchable power.

Below is a sobering analysis on how the #WindPower obsession is a systemic vulnerability.

But let's remember our secret weapons: hydrogen fuels, VPPs, next-gen geothermal and #nuclear SMRs to foster clean energy resilience.

[Isaac Orr @TheFrackingGuy]

Weird how that works. https://t.co/3uOWSHiXz1

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Intermittency issues aside, poor cyber defense leaves billion dollar clean energy projects vulnerable - 10GW of #windfarms were remotely disabled last year in a single attack.

A successful #EnergyTransition demands vertically integrated resilience.

https://t.co/zIKG8TvZR3

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

@EmberClimate #Solar potential isn't just about irradiation/PV potential. Factors also at play: grid infrastructure, regional prosperity, terrain, temperature, elevation.

E.g. Southeast #Turkey is mountainous, volatile, & lacks grid infrastructure - not ripe for solar development at all.

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

#Solar potential isn't just about irradiation/PV potential. Factors also at play: grid infrastructure, regional prosperity, terrain, temperature, elevation.

E.g. Southeast #Turkey is mountainous, volatile, & lacks grid infrastructure - not ripe for solar development at all.

[Ember @ember_energy]

Ember has a new data tool!

Explore Türkiye's renewable energy transition - all our data is easy to access and free to use 📈
https://t.co/NYmJF04ny5

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Copper resilience hinges on the long tail of miners coming online.

Given the soaring demand for #copper and predicted price increases, countries like Argentina will see huge economic benefits while reducing global reliance on Chilean and Chinese mines.

https://t.co/GpP8A7OlS9

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

In light of Germany's recent #nuclear energy shutdown and questions over project economics, we have summarized nuclear project risks below.

TLDR: Risks are easily hedged.

Our full assessment can be found in our April newsletter ✉️

https://t.co/oPNHXo2de4

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

Staggering difference in #decarbonization efforts among US states.

Texas still lags well behind despite its stand-alone and autonomous grid that should reduce red tape.

California's solar and Illinois' #nuclear generation set the national standard.

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

The US 🇺🇸electricity transition is picking up speed.
15% of generation is now from wind and solar, but fossil fuels are still at 60%.

States like Iowa, California and Texas are rapidly building up wind and solar, but there is a lot left to be done

Here is the breakdown:

[Adenium @Adenium_Group]

@collectifission @lowcarbonpower "...ageing hydro plants are not equipped to handle high water temperatures and “dramatically changing” seasonal patterns. There is also limited land to build new hydropower stations."

This is just a modern-day analysis but may explain..
https://t.co/RWNNNaOHcK

[LowCarbonPower.org⚡ @lowcarbonpower]

Italy has made no progress towards decarbonization of its electricity in half a century