Pennock's Fiero Forum
  Totally O/T
  CNN's Fareed Zakaria's EPIC BEATDOWN of Bernie Sanders ideas on Zero Emissions Energy

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Email This Page to Someone! | Printable Version


next newest topic | next oldest topic
CNN's Fareed Zakaria's EPIC BEATDOWN of Bernie Sanders ideas on Zero Emissions Energy by rinselberg
Started on: 02-16-2020 10:36 AM
Replies: 4 (154 views)
Last post by: Tony Kania on 02-16-2020 02:05 PM
rinselberg
Member
Posts: 16118
From: Sunnyvale, CA (USA)
Registered: Mar 2010


Feedback score: (2)
Leave feedback





Total ratings: 147
Rate this member

Report this Post02-16-2020 10:36 AM Click Here to See the Profile for rinselbergClick Here to visit rinselberg's HomePageSend a Private Message to rinselbergEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
I confess. That is hyperbole, on my part. An intentionally "over the top" wording of this forum topic.

Would you believe a calmly reflective Fareed Zakaria offered up a veritable litany of numbers and an eye-catching pie chart, in his newly published critique of Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's idea of a zero (carbon) emissions power grid for the U.S. by 2030?

Fareed Zakaria, CNN commentator and WaPo columnist, has just critiqued Bernie Sander's ideas about how to decarbonize the national electrical power grid.
 
quote
The [Bernie] Sanders green energy “plan” is based on magical thinking. It presumes that we can reduce emissions in electricity and transport to zero in 10 years while simultaneously shutting down the only two low-emission, always-available sources of power [natural gas and nuclear] that together provide nearly 60 percent of our country’s electricity. And that makes me wonder: Is the real problem that Sanders will lose — or that he might win?


"Bernie Sanders’s magical thinking on climate change"
Fareed Zakaria for the Washington Post; February 13, 2020.
https://www.washingtonpost....5b16dafaa_story.html

CNN video content; 4 minutes 30 seconds. The PIE CHART is here.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/...216-fareeds-take.cnn


Some of the data comes from Carbon Brief.
https://www.carbonbrief.org


U.S. Energy Consumption 2018, breakout by source.
University of Michigan, Center for Sustainable Systems
http://css.umich.edu/factsh...ble-energy-factsheet

Cut back "bigly" on burning of coal ... so say the stalwarts at Carbon Brief, to avoid experiencing Carbon Grief.


You may or may not find it appealing to peruse the catalog of recent reports on the Axios(.com) "Climate Change--the Big Picture" page.
https://www.axios.com/energ...nment/climate-change

Here's one, for example; one that I have not perused in any way, myself:

"Gauging the public pulse on climate and energy policy"
 
quote
There is bipartisan support for renewables but steep divides over fossil fuels.
Axios(.com); November 26, 2019.
https://www.axios.com/clima...c9-713026c5d714.html


And ditto for this one:

"What your city's climate will be in 2080"
 
quote
Future climate conditions may have no parallel in modern human history, researchers say.
Axios(.com); February 15, 2019.
https://www.axios.com/clima...04-9d407ad85b02.html

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-16-2020).]

IP: Logged
PFF
System Bot
williegoat
Member
Posts: 19334
From: Glendale, AZ
Registered: Mar 2009


Feedback score: N/A
Leave feedback





Total ratings: 103
Rate this member

Report this Post02-16-2020 01:28 PM Click Here to See the Profile for williegoatClick Here to visit williegoat's HomePageSend a Private Message to williegoatEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post


It is relevant because she was born in Mumbai and I dig the konnakol.
IP: Logged
fierosound
Member
Posts: 15141
From: Calgary, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999


Feedback score: N/A
Leave feedback





Total ratings: 286
Rate this member

Report this Post02-16-2020 01:33 PM Click Here to See the Profile for fierosoundClick Here to visit fierosound's HomePageSend a Private Message to fierosoundEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
Bernie Sanders is singing from the same UN songbook that Canada's Prime Minster Justin Trudeau is.

Trudeau's policies to suck up to the UN's plans are basically ruining Canada's economy.
And lots of our endeavors are like pizzing into the wind and won't accomplish anything.

Because until China and India are on board, even if every Canadian were dead (0 emissions) global emissions wouldn't change.
But as usual, Canada is being "the Boy Scout showing the way" that nobody else will follow into a ruined economy.
IP: Logged
williegoat
Member
Posts: 19334
From: Glendale, AZ
Registered: Mar 2009


Feedback score: N/A
Leave feedback





Total ratings: 103
Rate this member

Report this Post02-16-2020 01:44 PM Click Here to See the Profile for williegoatClick Here to visit williegoat's HomePageSend a Private Message to williegoatEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
The genesis of environmental concern was well intentioned, however most environmental activism is now driven by anti-capitalist forces.
IP: Logged
Tony Kania
Member
Posts: 20794
From: The Inland Northwest
Registered: Dec 2008


Feedback score:    (7)
Leave feedback





Total ratings: 305
User Banned

Report this Post02-16-2020 02:05 PM Click Here to See the Profile for Tony KaniaSend a Private Message to Tony KaniaEdit/Delete MessageReply w/QuoteDirect Link to This Post
We bring a garbage bag when hiking. I offset that by taking the Fiero with no catalytic convertor.
IP: Logged

next newest topic | next oldest topic

All times are ET (US)

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Hop to:

Contact Us | Back To Main Page

Advertizing on PFF | Fiero Parts Vendors
PFF Merchandise | Fiero Gallery | Ogre's Cave
Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay



Copyright (c) 1999, C. Pennock