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By Jo Nova Doubts are spreading about the “prospects of electric cars” Sales of electric vehicles in Germany slumped 37% in July, compared to sales one year ago. It’s not that people don’t want a new car, they just prefer a fossil fueled one. Sales of normal cars rose 7% in the same period. Electric Car Sales Plummet 37% in Germany as Slump Deepens By Wilfried Eckl-Dorna, Bloomberg “The ramp-up of e-mobility is proving to be unsustainable so far,” Constantin Gall, a consultant at EY, said of the German sales results. “The market has lost all momentum and many customers doubt the prospects of electric cars.” The slowdown leaves the auto industry exposed after investing billions in the ramp-up of the technology. VW, Europe’s biggest automaker, said last week it has cut capacity at high-cost plants in Germany and also might change the timing of its ramp-up in battery production. EV’s made up 20% of new car sales in Germany this time last year, but that market share has now shrunk to 13%. This is not the way a raging new lifesaving technology takes over the planet. In Sweden EV sales are down […] Sorry about Wednesday. 9 out of 10 based on 18 ratings By Jo Nova It could have been so much worse A Mercedes Benz EV started smoking in an underground carpark in Incheon, South Korea last Thursday at 6:15am. After the immolation, 40 other cars were burnt and another hundred suffered some damage. At least 16 people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. Some 48o households lost electricity, and later 121 people had to be relocated. It apparently burned for eight hours. Allegedly, eighty fire engines (or pieces of equipment) turned up with 177 firefighters. Some 209 residents were in the apartment at the time, and “nearly half” were rescued by firefighters from stairs and balconies. The investigation is ongoing… but there are many puzzles. It wasn’t a cheap car, it wasn’t charging and had been sitting in that spot for 59 hours and nothing apparently triggered the blaze. Not surprisingly, there are reports that residents in other Seoul apartment blocks are moving to ban electric vehicles from their basement carparks. EV-phobia spreads, as police investigate cause of electric car explosion The Nation Incheon police on Tuesday said it is investigating what caused the mysterious explosion of an electric car last week, but some […] By Jo Nova The Crash Test Dummy Nation wins a Gold Medal in Electricity Prices And you thought last week was bad. While the single spike at $17,000 a megawatt hour in five states simultaneously was a record, just a week later we have the double spike bonfire — peaking at breakfast and dinner on the same day in our two largest states. That’s a high degree-of-difficulty (to pay the bill). This was not just a 5-minute bid rocket — it was 90 full minutes of blitzkreig twice in a day for both NSW and Victoria. With admirable supporting efforts in burning money in Tasmania and South Australia for breakfast, and then in Queensland, which joined the financial bonfire for dinner. The average price for the whole 24 hour period of August 5th was eye-watering. Last week the spike flattened out to about $300 per megawatt hour across the day. But yesterday in NSW and Victoria, the average price was $2,150 across both states for 24 hours in a row. It’s possible the AEMO will have to take over the market again in some states to put the fire out. Welcome to renewable hell At both peaks Victoria was burning […] August 6th, 2024 | Tags: AEMO, Electricity Cost | Category: Australia, Global Warming, Renewable, Solar Power, Wind Power |  Print This Post | | 8.8 out of 10 based on 15 ratings 7.8 out of 10 based on 29 ratings 9 out of 10 based on 30 ratings Should we cool the whole Earth first or just homes and offices? By Jo Nova It’s as if they’re trying to guilt trip people into installing some solar panels and catching the bus. Climate Change, it seems, is linked to brain damage in children. Specifically poor children. It leaves them with lasting effects on brain development and particularly “white matter”. (And what kind of evil sod are you if you won’t buy an EV to save the brain of a kid in Barking & Dagenham? “Do it for the children!”) The editors of the British Medical Journal review many recent papers talking about the dire situation: Climate change has serious implications for children’s brain health British Medical Journal Emerging evidence suggests that factors related to climate change, such as ambient heat exposure, can affect the brain.5 Heat stress has been linked to disruptions in neurodevelopment, slow cognitive and emotional functioning, long term learning loss and memory deficits, worsening of neurological and mental disorders, and increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier.6 Early exposure to extreme weather events, including antenatal exposure, has also been associated with an increased risk of anxiety, depression, attention deficit-hyperactivity […] 8.6 out of 10 based on 13 ratings By Jo Nova It’s a 6pm bonfire on the Australian grid Over at WattClarity on Monday when every state had prices over $3,000 per MWh simultaneously, Dan Lee noted that this was extremely rare. Since 2008, there have only been 32 intervals when prices were above $1,000 in all five states at once and nine of the 32 occurred on Monday. Then Tuesday was so much worse: Record high electricity prices across the NEM. July 2024
Naturally the Sydney Morning Herald is blaming “aging coal plants” Because we can’t get rid of coal fast enough, right? Somehow it’s a “harbinger of the price hikes” we’re facing “if aging fossil fuel generators are forced to stay open longer”. So geniuses, if prices hit $17,000 a megawatt-hour when some coal power is down for a day, what happens when we get rid of coal entirely? Is that when Tinkerbell saves the day by turning Sydney Harbor into a giant battery, or when $17,000 prices become the “new norm”? Somehow the unplanned outages of reliable coal plants create sky high prices, whereas the unplanned outages of wind and solar power create Utopia. Not so coincidentally, the price spikes on July […] August 2nd, 2024 | Tags: AEMO, Coal, Electricity Cost, Media bias | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.5 out of 10 based on 20 ratings By Jo Nova And the flavor of the month is “failure” Air New Zealand announced this week that it would not be able to cut its carbon emissions by 29% by 2030. The levers were “outside their control”, they lamented, which was the polite way of saying there isn’t enough sustainable jet fuel in the world, electric planes die after a few weeks, and no one has invented a low emissions plane yet. At the moment the only kind of Net-Zero-flying is not to fly at all. Current supplies of sacred sustainable fuel are rapidly growing but barely 0.5% of total requirements. Even though production is expected to triple this year to 1.5 Mt of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, the industry needs 200 times what is currently available. If someone could just invent an anti-gravity machine, or a nuclear jet… Air New Zealand pulls the plug on 2030 climate targets By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press Air New Zealand has pulled the plug on its climate targets saying the resources needed to meet them are unaffordable and unavailable. In a statement the airline said it was removing its 2030 carbon intensity reduction target and will […] August 1st, 2024 | Tags: Aviation, Net Zero | Category: Australia, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 9.1 out of 10 based on 11 ratings |
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