{"id":450886,"date":"2010-03-20T08:01:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=32648"},"modified":"2010-03-20T08:01:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T12:01:27","slug":"life-without-electrical-power-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/450886","title":{"rendered":"Life Without (Electrical) Power (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

PART ONE OF THREE PARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, I mentioned that I had been contributing posts at this blog for two years. I also mentioned that the bulk of those posts concerned the generation of electrical power with relation to the Global Warming\/Climate Change debate. I mentioned that this was a case where the Science around the debate was not considering the Engineering factors they say are contributing to the problem. That might seem obscure to most people, so it requires some explanation.<\/p>\n

The Science part of the debate says that the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing what will amount to catastrophic Global Warming. A large percentage of this CO2 is being emitted from coal fired power plants across the Planet. I want you to take particular notice of the word ‘catastrophic’. True, as is the case with most situations, the more notice is taken if emotive language is used, but in this case, those pushing this argument never use caution. They just come out every time and use that word ….. ‘catastrophic’.<\/p>\n

Let’s then look at this and use some logic.<\/p>\n

If the situation was in fact catastrophic, then people (Governments) all across the Planet would be immediately doing something about it.<\/p>\n

<\/span>As is the case with most situations of danger, then active steps would be taken to remove that danger, let alone a catastrophe, as we are told with never ending repetition. In this case then, the simple most obvious thing to do would be to immediately remove the problem. That would mean closing down those coal fired power plants, because, after all, this is supposedly the source of this potential catastrophe.<\/p>\n

The people who actually have the power to do this are the Governments in question. You might be tempted to think that, given this dire threat, they would be doing everything they could to save the people from this catastrophe. They would be doing everything in their power to remove the threat. That would mean immediately closing down those coal fired power plants. That would then effectively stop the bulk of those CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n

That, however, would be akin to political suicide. Coal fired power provides the bulk of all electrical power. To remove that would mean that the whole Country would just stop. Not suffer a downturn, not go into recession, just stop, and stop dead in its tracks. Don’t just think of how this might affect you at the residential level with no electrical power to provide you the comfort of life in your home. Think of Industry that provides the jobs most of us work at. With no power, they cease to operate, so there is no job to go to. Look at your cities. Every building taller than two stories would be uninhabitable, not just as a residence, but as a place of work. There would be no air inside them to breathe, because that breathing air is supplied by large conditioners on the roof that circulate breathing air inside them, not just to cool or warm the air, but actually to recirculate breathing air inside those buildings. Think also of where you shop, especially for your weekly groceries. They could not operate either with no way to keep food fresh or in cold storage. There would be no traffic regulation, but that’s neither here nor there because after a few days there would be no cars on the road because there would be no way to pump fuel into them, and the suppliers would have shut down. This is just a fraction of what might happen.<\/p>\n

Every aspect of life as we know it would just grind to a halt.<\/p>\n

See now why this would be political suicide.<\/p>\n

So, what is the very first thing that Governments have started to do to combat this catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Not to turn off those coal fired power plants. Not to rush out and find ways to replace them with plants that actually can supply those levels of power.<\/p>\n

No, the first thing they have done is to try and introduce legislation to make money out of it, and you might think this is a cynical way to look at it. They seek to impose a cost on that CO2 that is being emitted. They know that even if a way can be found to replace the 24\/7\/365 power requirements that coal fired power provides, then that will take time, and here we’re not talking short term, but in decades. In the interim, those coal fired plants will just have to keep operating. Right now, those Governments know, and they know absolutely, that other than nuclear power plants, there are no plants that can replace the amounts of power that coal fired plants provide. They will try and tell you they ‘may’, but those renewable plants just cannot do that in any way whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Those Governments know that those coal fired plants must keep operating, so by imposing a cost on the CO2 that they emit guarantees them an income for decades into the future. Their little secret is that 99.9% of the public have no idea just how much money can be made from this, because in the main that percentage of people have no real idea of the scale of coal fired power.<\/p>\n

A large coal fired power plant with a Nameplate Capacity of around 2000MW burns on average 6.5 million tons of coal each year, and that equates to around 18,000 tons of coal each day. Each Ton of coal that is burned produces 2.86 tons of CO2, so just for that one large plant, it will emit nearly 19 million tons of CO2 each year.<\/p>\n

Here’s some scope of those emissions, and keep in mind, this is just from coal fired power generation alone.<\/p>\n

In the U.S. they burned 940 million tons of coal last year. This produced CO2 emissions in the amount of 2.7 Billion tons of CO2.<\/p>\n

For those Australian readers, Australia burned 90 million tons of coal last year, hence 255 million tons of CO2.<\/p>\n

For the whole World, an amount of 7.3 Billion tons of coal was burned, hence an emission of 21 Billion tons of CO2.<\/p>\n

Again, keep in mind that this is just from coal fired power alone. Natural gas fired plants also emit CO2, at around one third the rate that an equivalent sized coal fired plant might emit. There are also emissions from petroleum fired plants, also around the same rate as for Natural Gas. However the bulk comes from coal fired power plants.<\/p>\n

This indicates some of the scale required.<\/p>\n

There is some political thought that an outright cost should be placed upon the CO2. Amounts around $50 per ton have been spoken of, and in fact, in the lead up to the recent U.S. election, then Senator Obama stated categorically that he wanted that amount to start at $50 per ton, and then wasn’t at all concerned if that amount escalated, and escalated considerably, and he also stated that he couldn’t really care less if he bankrupted coal fired power.<\/p>\n

So, at President Obama’s mooted amount of $50 per ton, then the income from that in the U.S., and just from the coal fired sector alone<\/strong>, amounts to around $150 Billion. That’s not a one off amount, but will be ongoing for every year.<\/p>\n

If those coal fired power plants just have to keep going, and to stay in operation for decades to come, then this is a guaranteed source of a huge income every year. It’s a captive market. They have to stay operating and to do that, then they will just have to pay.<\/p>\n

Here in Australia, an amount of $26 per ton was actually mooted when the current Government called for a report into the matter. Professor Garnaut, who completed that report stated that this amount would be what Australia should call for. This will be a guaranteed income of around $10 Billion each and every subsequent year those plants stay in operation. This may not seem much when the scale of the US is taken into account, but Australia is a small Country with a population of only 22 million compared to the US with a population of 309 million.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that this cost, even though directed at those coal fired power plants for them to pay, then that amount will be passed directly down to consumers at the three levels of power consumption, Residential (38%) Commerce (37%) and Industrial (24%), so even though your residential power bill will rise, and rise considerably, you will also be hit by the rise in those other two sectors, as you consume goods from those areas, in every aspect of your daily life.<\/p>\n

This is not going to end that ‘catastrophe’. Closing down the plants would end the catastrophe.<\/p>\n

All this effectively does is make money from it.<\/p>\n

In Part Two, I will further expand on just how this ‘catastrophe’ will in fact be perpetuated. It will not be diminishing. Any decrease in emissions in the U.S. and Australia, and in any Western World society will be so minor as to be insignificant. At the same time as these tiny decreases, if any, start to take effect, there will be huge increases in places like China especially, India, and in other Third World Countries. While our emissions might be falling by tiny increments, emissions from those other Countries will be increasing, and increasing by huge amounts, not because those Countries could not care less about the environment, but because they do not have access to the electrical power we take for granted, and those Countries are constructing new coal fired plants so that the people in those Countries can finally have that access to electrical power.<\/p>\n

We take utterly for granted something they do not even have, and because somewhere in the Western World, someone says there will be a ‘catastrophe’ if we don’t do something about it, we are told that we need to be responsible and bite that bullet. Those Governments seeking to make money from this<\/span> cut back on those emissions will not be telling you this, because that would jeopardise their access to that vast and endless pot of money. Instead, they will very conveniently point the finger of blame at China, at India, at those sectors of the Third World who try to tell us the truth of the matter, and tell them that they also need to show some responsibility.<\/p>\n

Part Two will expand on the situation in China.<\/p>\n

Link to Part Two<\/a><\/p>\n

Link to Part Three<\/a><\/p>\n

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