Mike Hansen

Very concerned about climate change. Quals. in Science & IT. Following climate & energy topics.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@chapman_auspol @renew_economy Did you have the Murdoch tabloid in front of you as you copied down all those points? 😁

Terrific policy, leverages private capital saving taxpayers who funded *all* the old coal plants, uses previously curtailed solar & is driving down prices by pushing gas peakers out.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@keithmarlowau @GeddesLiza @PKRJED @honmattkean @TheAustralian You are such a liar. 🤦🏻But kudos for making a total fool of yourself using your actual name - it is your name?

The first large battery at Hornsdale is 8.5 years old & going strong. Residential batteries have 10 year warranties & last for decades, EV batteries outlast the car. /2

[iGeekbb @igeekbb]

热成像下的电车和油车

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@CraigMX2024 @DavidPocock Baseload (base demand) disappears on renewable grids.

e.g. here is the last week in SA. A baseload generator would be profitable on Mon, Tues, & Wed but shut down for the rest of the week.

Which is in part why there has been no new coal built in Australia in nearly 20 years.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@YourMumsNewFela @MagdalaJB @RichardLyon_ @jonburkeUK You went full crackpot very quickly.

As I said, the goal is stop the atmospheric ppm of CO2 from continuing to rise, not to lower them.

Half of climate cranks claim the impact of CO2 effect is saturated, the other 1/2 say the opposite - too small to have an impact. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@YourMumsNewFela @MagdalaJB @RichardLyon_ @jonburkeUK And? That would represent

* 1.5% of UK emissions
* 0.012% of annual global emissions
* 0.00016% of CO2 in the atmosphere.

While the R&D is worthwhile, there is no chance that tech will reduce the atmospheric C02 ppm which will continue to rise until emissions stop.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@MagdalaJB @RichardLyon_ @jonburkeUK Net zero emissions is about stopping CO2 in the atmosphere from *increasing*, not removing CO2. When we reach net zero, CO2 levels will remain elevated for millennia.

Here is a simple experiment with ink & water you could do that shows a small # of molecules can have an impact.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@Makariotrack @RusselNorman Maybe you should.

for example, Ch 11 from the latest report (AR6, published before the Hunga Tonga eruption) is on extremes & notes more intense rainfall has been observed “over a majority of land regions”. Because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapour, 7% per 1C.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@AlinNiklad @EVCurveFuturist Don’t come to Australia then. We often have so much solar generation that the wholesale price goes negative in the middle of the day - that is, the fossil fuel generators have to pay to generate. Hence getting people to use if for free makes sense.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@Michael_56 @QuentinDempster @RichardGerraty @mattjcan None other than that documented in a century of published and peer reviewed scientific research, 6 exhaustive IPCC reports over the last 35 years and the more obvious rising global temperatures, melting ice etc. 🤦🏻

https://t.co/YRBPlo5m1B

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@Michael_56 @QuentinDempster @RichardGerraty @mattjcan The role of atmospheric CO2 in warming the earth is known in detail. That there was an Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect has been known for two centuries. While fossil fuel funded think tanks & social media cranks muddy the waters, the science is fairly straight forward.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@AlinNiklad @EVCurveFuturist Why are you triggered by EVs? Did you have the same reaction to smart phones, to streaming video …

We have so much midday solar, it sends the wholesale price negative. Soon everyone will be able to enjoy free solar electricity, panels or not.

https://t.co/Gwe3fE81GT

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@AlinNiklad @EVCurveFuturist Or pick one up from Woolworths for $169 (or much less than the cost of filling up a diesel ute).

https://t.co/H9dm5w8pHn

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@AlinNiklad @EVCurveFuturist All you need to charge at home is a standard 240V 10A power point, a Type 2 AC charger (supplied with the EV or ~$165 on Amazon) & optionally a cheap EV charging plan from your electricity retailer. More than enough for the 35 Km/day av. Australian driver.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@ThinkActBenefit @LyrebirdDream @AussieEight7 @JordanEVGuy @Everyth1ngElec @sydney_ev Yeh nah 🐂💩.

EV batteries are thermally managed. You are more likely to get a fire from charging cheap power tools or cheap modified e-bikes and e-scooters.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@Michael_56 @QuentinDempster @RichardGerraty @mattjcan That “odd belief system” known as science.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@IScripted @simonahac

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@AUSSIEROO1966 @Peter_Fitz It could be a trend. Exclusive from Chris Uhlmann “Gravity, is it real or is it woke?”. Uhlmann debates Bowen “Is the earth round like the woke claim or is it flat like realists believe”.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@FinancialReview The field hasn’t even been proven yet - so “quickly” must now mean a decade or more. 😁 And we only have 2 refineries, one of which uses a heavier crude than Taroom would supply. Together they supply about 10-15% of local demand so ending imports is not happening any time soon.

[Mike Hansen @hmike01]

@FinancialReview What this unsophisticated article doesn’t disclose is that remaining Australian production is light crude & exported while the 2 remaining refineries import a heavier crude to meet our diesel needs. And the “42 years” appears to be a silly fantasy about unproven shale oil.