J Toomey

Old Flyhalf, Electrical Engineer, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, UK, PNG, Trout searcher, All about Data anything else is just your religion or political belief

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There is a hint of delicious irony to all this.

China currently manufactures 80% of the world’s solar panels, 75–80% of all batteries, 60–65% of wind turbine parts and 55% of global crude steel.

This staggering modern-day success story represents the largest, quietest transfer of industrial might and power in human history.

China's manufacturing grunt is more than the next 15 countries combined—larger than the US, EU and Japan together. To power this industrial onslaught, China commissions around six state-of-the-art coal plants a month (50–80 GW a year).

It operates over 1,200 coal plants totaling 1,271 GW—more than half the world’s total capacity. Its coal mining fleet is four times larger than second-place India.

As a result, China’s share of global manufacturing grew from 6% to 30% since 2000. Meanwhile, America’s plunged like a lead balloon from 25% to around 12%, and Europe’s collapsed from 25% to around 14%.

How? China uses abundant, reliable coal power, refuses to bind itself to net-zero, and has leadership that treats factories and steel mills as critical assets—unlike the West.

In geopolitical terms, this should be a lightning rod across the decaying West. But the job on the West is just about done, and the Western green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by China.

This rise to dizzy heights was only made possible by using the same demonised dense fossil fuel energy that has already sent the Western world spiralling into a brackish, foul-tasting, latter-day mediaeval backwater.

It should be the biggest, loudest, and most outrageous news story in the Western world—but it hardly rates a mention.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@ProfStrachan More solar raises price of grid purchased power. Just don’t cry about UK’s electricity cost per kWh.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@ClaireCoutinho Fewer jobs, fewer tax revenues but not fewer emissions. Seems rather dogmatic.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@ejwwest @KathrynPorter26 @bp_plc No she just points out wind, solar, batteries and hydrogen are not adequate technologies that can allow that transition on an economic or technological basis.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@AlexTaylorNews @Telegraph Journalistic intelligence exemplified perfectly! Call someone an "idiot" and you are a genius and undeniably right! Journalists like this highlight the need to fire those that cannot expound intelligently on critically important topics and hire competent people that can.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@john_yazek @SullyCNBC Oh God! Thanks for tonight's nightmare!

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@SullyCNBC Plus through in last minute temporary construction areas. Completely random events largely defy computation.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@garethicke I think Mr. Miliband should show some leadership by example and show us he is committed to reducing all sources of CO2!

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@ecokonnexion Yeah right. 😂https://t.co/hTEU3ZaMuy

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@johnrhanger I believe you missed this Reuters report on China "Facts" around energy.😂😂😂https://t.co/hTEU3ZaMuy

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@Reuters and yet more "facts" from China. Just pulled out a pencil and eraser. https://t.co/hTEU3ZaMuy

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@TheHeyoka505 @KathrynPorter26 @Shell 😂😂😂

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@SullyCNBC However, overlaying a Sunni vs Shiite war is not a positive to making a Shiite vs Shiite civil schism more likely.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@SamEllington12 @SullyCNBC WTF does that matter. Why not hold your breath and stamp your feet to complete the behavior? Need solution. Save your hissy fit for next election where it would at least be appropriate if not entirely useful.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@SullyCNBC Old school definition of inflation: "too many dollars chasing too few goods". For example gas turbines and memory chips.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@SullyCNBC Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods. Insurance is a finance business. Raising interest rates absolutely affects their rates. Printing dollars is the issue. The war is 4 months old. Can't blame 18 months of inflation on that.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@7Kiwi 2023 energy bill "The ISOP[NESO] must carry out its functions in the way that is best calculated to promote
(a)the net zero objective;
(b)the security of supply objective;
(c)the efficiency and economy objective."

Eliminate a), if renewables are truly cheaper, problem solved!

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@KathrynPorter26 @ofgem @neso_energy Hey Mr. Jarvis and Mr. Slye (aptly named) CEO's of OFGEM and NESO probably have a golf date this weekend. Wouldn't want to spoil the mood!

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

No, the point is the REAL cost of renewables includes all the backup systems. If you don't acknowledge that and buy renewables claiming they are cheap then you must forego all the benefit of those backup systems, otherwise you are a hypocrite.

When a powerplant sells very few kw-hrs compared to capacity the fixed costs must all be recovered from those few kw-hrs. That is why cost of gas power has gone up. Fuel cost at UK current LNG price is about £.047/kwhr.

[J Toomey @JToomey16]

@KathrynPorter26 NESO does "estimate" on an hourly basis the capacity and output of distribution system generation. Both wind & solar are pitifully low output compare to capacity. https://t.co/1U2TBFOL5q