#demand
Britain’s Economy Will Only Get Worse | Aaron Bastani meets Gary Stevenson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o2REr4bs8A
#GaryStevenson
#economics #inequality #wealthinequality
#ittakesmoneytomakemoney #trajectory
#assetmanagement #theeconomy
#values
To further accompany problem identification (than already done in the interview), here's a video of Gary Stevenson's about #solutions and #opportunity (to win the ideological theoretical debate) with the #povertymajority, big #demand for alternative, in #awareness of the #statusquo not working, and about helping people understand what's happening and build on that understanding ( #educateyourselfsoyoumayeducateothers ), reform, democratic pressure, ... not hopium to placate you back to defeated slumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHGiq063rA
... and while I'm at it, here's the explosive first interview from a year or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
There are so many many portions I could have quoted from that interview. Hard to pick. Here's just a couple.
"a call to arms."
"... [the book is] a massive opportunity for me to spread awareness of these problems"
"...this beautiful and horrible irony that if you can convince poor and ordinary people to be very very selfish in a material sense, you will completely materially impoverish them."
"So this is this amazing irony that if you cam make poor people obsessed with getting rich, they'll become poor."
"It's kind of a moral test for our society: are you willing to put your selfishness aside enough to protect your selfish interests?"
"The rich have got so much money now, they have to do something with it, they can't just sit on it."
interviewer: "I think I saw a statistic ~ this is from 2019, it's probably worse now ~ one in six baby boomers is a millionaire. Right? That is... ~ if you want to talk about the people who do the door knocking for the conservative party, that y'know... they will vote in every single bloody election for the Tories and think the sun shines out of Jeremy Hunt's backside, even when they're as terrible as they are right now. You look at the polls, and who are these 25% of people? It's those people, and the people sort of immediately around them."
He who imposes his argument by bravado and command shows that it is weak in reason.
[Qui establit son discours par braverie et commandement, montre que la raison y est foible.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
“Of Cripples_ [Des Boyteux]”_ (1587), Essays, Book 3, ch. 11 (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]
#quote #quotes #quotation #argument #assertion #authority #bravado #command #demand #intimidation #noise #position #power #reason #shouting
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/2884/
Three Combustion Turbines Added to TVA’s Paradise Site, More to Come at Other Locations
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said three new natural gas–fired units entered commercial operation on Dec. 31 at the Paradise Combined Cycle Plant near Drakesboro, Kentucky (Figure 1). “Natural gas […]
https://www.powermag.com/three-combustion-turbines-added-to-tvas-paradise-site-more-to-come-at-other-locations/
#power, #demand, #top, #full, #design, #plant, #gas, #news
Rabbi interrupts US President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire | AJ #shorts
Watch the moment a Jewish rabbi heckles US President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. The crowd boos and tells her to leave the campaign event in Min...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Jewish #JoeBiden #USPresident #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #boos #campaign #ceasefire #demand #event #heckles #latestnews #newsheadlines #rabbi
Rabbi interrupts US President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire | AJ #shorts
We shut down Grand Central station to demand a ceasefire
JVP (Jewish Voice For Peace)
As the Israeli military plunged Gaza into darkness on Friday, thousands of Jews and allies held a historic sit-in inside New York City’s Grand Central Station to say: Ceasefire now.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/30/wire-grand-central-action/?sourceid=1001761&emc
Why the ‘Energy Security Strategy’ won’t work / Nick Eyre
The Prime Minister’s #Energy #Security #Strategy will not work. It’s a strategy for boosting #UK energy #supply. Of course, the UK needs a plan for where our energy should come from. But any effective strategy also has to address how much energy we use and how to reduce it. Indeed, it should start from there. A “supply strategy” for energy is like a “medicines strategy” for health – it misses the key options.
This is not an academic debating point. Just building more supply has never worked as an energy strategy. And it does not need to – reducing #demand works. Over the last 30 years, energy #efficiency improvement has contributed more to our energy security than the nuclear and renewables programme combined. And the potential for reducing energy demand further remains very large. This week’s IPCC report confirms such changes can be very large and need to be central to an effective climate policy. CREDS research shows that we could halve UK energy demand by 2050, whilst still improving our quality of life.
Electrifying transport and heating alone will achieve a lot, as electric vehicles and heat pumps are many times more efficient than the fossil fuel technologies they replace. And our buildings could and should be better insulated. But the message from recent research is more fundamental – we need also to think more broadly about what we use energy for. Reducing car use can play a major role, as can the reuse and substitution of energy intensive materials.
Time and money
Of course, much of this will require investment and take time. But that is even more true of the measures set out in the PM’s strategy. Changes in the way that we use energy are generally quicker than major supply side investments, especially options like new nuclear reactors, which are the most expensive option and cannot make any contribution for well over a decade. Saving energy provides more diverse, resilient, cleaner and cheaper options. The proposed support for heat pump innovation is only a tiny fraction of what is required.
Sadly, the ‘strategy’ continues a trend of going in the wrong direction. Energy saving policies have been dismantled over the last decade. Vehicle efficiency improvements have stalled and new building standards delayed. In David Cameron’s haste to ‘cut the green crap’ in 2012, building energy saving programmes were reduced by 90%. This outcome was not an unfortunate accident; it was a deliberate choice by a minister, who then went to work for Russian oligarch. The result is that a typical household uses 10% more energy for space heating and now pays £100 per year more for household energy than if previous programmes had been continued.
Some households have high car dependency and therefore will be doubly disadvantaged. But most people on low incomes do not drive long distances, and so rising transport fuel costs are less regressive. The recent reduction in road fuel duty is a diversion from the key problem that, unless urgent action is taken, rising household fuel bills will mean people die from living in cold homes next winter.
Professor Nick Eyre, based at the University of Oxford, is the Director of CREDS and a Professor of Energy and Climate Policy.
How Microreactors Could Change the Nuclear Power Industry (and the World)
What is a microreactor and why would you want one? The definition could be debated, but nuclear reactors in the 1 MW to 20 MW range generally fit the bill, and there are countless possible applications for the technology.
https://www.powermag.com/how-microreactors-could-change-the-nuclear-power-industry-and-the-world/
#technology, #development, #nuclear, #research, #power, #demand, #international
"Effects of the COVID19 pandemic on the Urban Water Cycle".
https://lidsen.com/journals/aeer/aeer-02-03-021#
#effects #covid19 #pandemic #urban #water #cycle #demand #supply #consumption #wastewater #climatechange #environmental #impact #research #global #health
Don’t expect shipping pressures to ease anytime soon, say industry analysts
Shipping costs have increased substantially since COVID-19, with knock-on impacts on the solar industry as modules prices rise lockstep with higher logistical costs. Even though demand for freight has recovered since the early days of the pandemic, supply has failed, or is unwilling to, catch up. Shipping companies have learnt to manage supply, are enjoying record profits and have no incentive to return to the low prices of 18 months ago, with exorbitant shipping rates likely here to stay, industry insiders told PV Tech.
https://www.pv-tech.org/dont-expect-shipping-pressures-to-ease-anytime-soon-say-industry-analysts/
#demand, #freight, #shipping, #shipments, #module, #costs, #news, #ports, #maersk
Renewables now half the price of fossil fuels across Europe, says report
Generating electricity from renewable sources in Europe is now half the price of fossil fuels as polluting power production on the continent fails to recover from the pandemic and renewables grow, according to a new report by the Ember energy thinktank.
https://www.pv-tech.org/renewables-now-half-the-price-of-fossil-fuels-across-europe-says-report/
#fossil, #ember, #union, #renewables, #news, #fuels, #european, #demand, #energy
Save The Mekong
Great photography of the Mekong River, and its people 👌👏❤ A strong blog
via Scientists for the Mekong : Analyst: The Mekong is a Chance for China to Improve Its Soft Power Footprint
Important excerpts by Brian Eyler, director of the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia program (6 April 2018):
"China, as well, previously wanted to purchase a lot of power from the Mekong basin. That’s no longer the case. In fact, #China
wants to #sell #power from Yunnan province to other #Mekong #countries. So that puts the whole #hydropower venture in the Lower
#Mekong under #question: Do we really #need all of these #dams? Is the #demand for those dams going to be there? Dams
development on the mainstream or the tributaries is driven by the demand for power from the other parts of the Mekong region."
"There are #communities of tens of thousands of people all the way through the basin that #utilize the #river #banks for #agricultural
purposes, and that contributes to the #important part of their #livelihoods. But when #China #releases the #water from #upstream
#dams in the dry season, just like China did two weeks ago, you have #sudden #floods that can #wash out the #fields that are
beginning to sprout #vegetables and other crops, wash away #livestock and #machinery. These unexpected floods also #impact
critical #animal and #bird species that make #habitats along the #riverside during the #dry #season."
"The Council Study (by the MRC) confirms how the #greatest #impacts come from #hydropower even compared to the impacts of
climate change. So we have to think about energy, and we need to work on #alternative #energy #development solutions because
the technology is here now to make that change. I am talking about solar, wind, and decentralized distribution and transmission
processes that can help shave down peak demands, reduce the needs for so much power, bring the power to the people who need
it more quickly, and help the country industrialize."
Let us Pray they stay alive 🙏🙏🙏
Three new Irrawaddy dolphin calves born in 2018. Great news. But, will they survive past 2 y.o.? Remains to be seen. All previous calves have died because of organochlorides, pesticides and other pollutants in fish & water, which damaged their immune systems leading to fatal diseases - according to 5 years research by Dr Verne Dove...
Let us remind the reader thst Dr. Dove was expelled from Cambodia for publishing her results...
Irrawaddy dolphins have long life spans. Hence, the present population consists of adult dolphins.
It's great that the Cambodian government has reduced gillnets and harm to the dolphins. However, if they really wanted to protect this species from #extinction they ought to be implementing strong measures to reduce water pollution and should not go ahead with the construction of the Stung Treng Dam & Sambor Dam as these will "sandwich" the dolphins confining them to a very small area and reducing substantially the species of fish they depend on for survival.