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Trump requests $1 billion donation from oil execs in exchange for rolling back environmental regulations
Former President Donald J. Trump told a group of oil executives and lobbyists gathered at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month that they should donate $1 billion to his presidential campaign because, if elected, he would roll back environmental rules that he said hampered their industry, according to two people who were there.
About 20 people attended an April 11 event billed as an “energy round table” at Mr. Trump’s private club, according to those people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event. Attendees included executives from ExxonMobil, EQT Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for the oil industry.
The event was organized by the oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who has for years helped to shape Republican energy policies. It was first reported by The Washington Post.
Mr. Trump has publicly railed for months against President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda, as Mr. Biden has raced to restore and strengthen dozens of climate and conservation rules that Mr. Trump had weakened or erased while in office. In particular, Mr. Trump has promised to eliminate Mr. Biden’s new climate rules intended to accelerate the nation’s transition to electric vehicles, and to push a “drill, baby, drill” agenda aimed at opening up more public lands to oil and gas exploration.
Mr. Biden has called climate change an existential threat and has moved to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet and supercharging storms, heat waves and drought.
Over a dinner of chopped steak, Mr. Trump repeated his public promises to delete Mr. Biden’s pollution controls, telling the attendees that they should donate heavily to help him beat Mr. Biden because his policies would help their industries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.ht
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Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
The U.S. oil industry is drawing up ready-to-sign executive orders for Donald Trump aimed at pushing natural gas exports, cutting drilling costs and increasing offshore oil leases in case he wins a second term, according to energy executives with direct knowledge of the work.
The effort stems from the industry’s skepticism that the Trump campaign will be able to focus on energy issues as Election Day draws closer — and worries that the former president is too distracted to prepare a quick reversal of the Biden administration’s green policies. Oil executives also worry that a second Trump administration won’t attract staff skillful enough to roll back President Joe Biden’s regulations or craft new ones favoring the industry, these people added.
Six energy industry lawyers and lobbyists interviewed by POLITICO described the effort to craft executive orders and other policy paperwork that they see as more effective than anything a second Trump administration could devise on its own. Those include a quick reversal of Biden’s pause on new natural gas export permits and preparations for wider and cheaper access to federal lands and waters for drilling.
The initiative is just one example of the efforts underway from multiple advocacy groups with strong policy agendas — including abortion-rights opponents — to fill in the gaps for Trump’s potential return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee has been a vocal supporter of the oil and gas industry, but the companies often chafed at the effects of his policies as president, including his trade wars and the legal challenges that thwarted some of his pro-fossil-fuel actions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/oil-industry-orders-trump-day
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Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
The U.S. oil industry is drawing up ready-to-sign executive orders for Donald Trump aimed at pushing natural gas exports, cutting drilling costs and increasing offshore oil leases in case he wins a second term, according to energy executives with direct knowledge of the work.
The effort stems from the industry’s skepticism that the Trump campaign will be able to focus on energy issues as Election Day draws closer — and worries that the former president is too distracted to prepare a quick reversal of the Biden administration’s green policies. Oil executives also worry that a second Trump administration won’t attract staff skillful enough to roll back President Joe Biden’s regulations or craft new ones favoring the industry, these people added.
Six energy industry lawyers and lobbyists interviewed by POLITICO described the effort to craft executive orders and other policy paperwork that they see as more effective than anything a second Trump administration could devise on its own. Those include a quick reversal of Biden’s pause on new natural gas export permits and preparations for wider and cheaper access to federal lands and waters for drilling.
The initiative is just one example of the efforts underway from multiple advocacy groups with strong policy agendas — including abortion-rights opponents — to fill in the gaps for Trump’s potential return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee has been a vocal supporter of the oil and gas industry, but the companies often chafed at the effects of his policies as president, including his trade wars and the legal challenges that thwarted some of his pro-fossil-fuel actions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/oil-industry-orders-trump-day
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This is a campaign advertisement that Trump didn't have to pay for.
I know 2016 was a long time ago now, but you really should have remembered the lessons.
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Battery-powered aircraft could lead transition from fossil-fueled flight
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Mammoth, the largest industrial facility yet built to filter carbon dioxide out of the air, just powered up in Hellisheiði, Iceland. It’s run by Swiss climate tech company Climeworks, whose clients include JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, among others.
It was the latest industrial plant built with the purpose of sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, a process called direct air capture (DAC) — with more facilities planned around the world. DAC is supposed to be a way to fight climate change by getting rid of greenhouse gas emissions that have built up in the atmosphere, but the process still has to prove that it can scale up enough to have a meaningful impact.
It’ll have to see if it can replicate that early success in a growing market in the US
Mammoth is the biggest DAC plant running yet. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s relatively small compared to other projects in the pipeline. Climeworks’ operations in Iceland were meant to show the world that this technology can work. Now, it’ll have to see if it can replicate that early success in a growing market in the US.
Back in 2017, Climeworks became the first company to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and sell it as a product used in fizzy drinks and in a greenhouse. It took a big step forward in Iceland in 2021, where it opened the DAC plant Orca to start capturing CO2 and permanently sequestering it underground for clients, including Microsoft.
Orca was the biggest DAC plant in operation until now. Mammoth will be able to capture nearly 10 times as much CO2 as Orca once it’s fully operational, around 36,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. That’s still not a lot of carbon, considering Microsoft alone emitted close to 13 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2022.
More at https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151905/mammoth-carbon-removal-dire
ct-air-capture-climeworks
For comparison purposes – Annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions worldwide in 2023 (in billion metric tons) 37.55
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions/
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+co2+is+released+each+year
How much solid waste does the world produce per year? 2 billion metric tons. CO2 is 37.55 billion metric tons. That is why CO2 is a bigger problem.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+solid+waste+does+the+world+pr
oduce+per+year
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World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked By A Storm Just Before Launch
Image from video: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/panels.JPG
Dr. Willie Soon; Who could have predicted acres of fragile floating structures would be vulnerable to bad weather?
"Madhya Pradesh: Summer Storm Damages World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant at Omkareshwar Dam (Watch Video)
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1787224785170190752/mediaVi
ewer?currentTweet=1787224785170190752¤tTweetUser=CitizenFreePres
Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a floating solar plant at Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar dam. The floating solar plant, situated in the backwater of the dam, is the biggest of its kind in the world. A joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Govt and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the project was nearly completed and ready for its launch. A part of the project became operational last week.
The project near the village of Kelwa Khurd, aimed at generating 100 MW of electricity, with additional capacities of 88MW at Indawadi and 90 MW at Ekhand village. However, on Tuesday, summer storms with the speed of 50kmph hit the project and threw the solar panels all around the place. No employee was fortunately injured."
Read more: https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damag
es-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514/
Anyone who has ever owned a boat, particular a large boat which gets left in the water, knows what a harsh environment the sea can be. Some kind of failure was inevitable. If it hadn’t been a storm, there are plenty of other things which could have gone wrong.
Greens keep telling us we can expect more frequent and extreme superstorms – so what is the point of building vulnerable floating structures?
Plastics tend to disintegrate under tropical sunlight, especially when in contact with water or water spray. Ultraviolet from the sun drives exotic chemical reactions, which leads to chemical breakdown.
Metal sitting in water is difficult to manage, even stainless steel is not immune to corrosion. All metal structures in contact with water need to be protected with sacrificial anodes or comparable protective measures. Electricity and metal are an especially bad combination, any electrical fault which causes a current to run through metal in contact with water can cause corrosion to occur thousands of times faster than normal.
Let us hope developers and politicians take the hint, and stop throwing our money at inherently flawed ideas like floating solar arrays.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/09/worlds-largest-floating-solar-f
arm-wrecked-by-a-storm/
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A pair of researchers has published a new paper claiming that global warming is astronomically more dangerous than we've thought until now. Their thesis is simple: historical evidence shows a very strong correlation between average global temps and extreme weather events, and those extreme weather events are very costly.
Interestingly, they do something I haven't seen before. Instead of just projecting what will happen in the future, they go backward and look at the past:
Quote:World GDP is currently around $100 trillion, so the authors are saying that it would be $37 trillion higher in the absence of climate change. This is the price we're paying every year.
Our results also indicate that world GDP per capita would be 37% higher today had no warming occurred between 1960 and 2019 instead of the 0.75°C observed increase in global mean temperature.
The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature
By Adrien Bilal, Harvard University
and Diego R. Kanzig, Northwestern University
May, 2024
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyOAE8D2zxb85Z6L4izb2Eot2HLXt-t2/view
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‘Unbearable’: Will 45C heatwaves affect who India chooses in election?
Candidates are fainting, voter turnout is lower, and research suggests extreme heat could influence who people choose.
By Bibhudatta Pradhan | 14 May 2024
New Delhi, India – Midway through his address to voters in the searing heat of central India late in April, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari fainted and collapsed on stage. When he was revived a few minutes later, Gadkari returned to the podium, blaming the oppressive weather for the bout of unconsciousness.
Gadkari is only one among a series of politicians, election officials and campaign managers who have fainted or fallen sick in recent days, as the temperature in parts of India has reached 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit). One TV anchor collapsed on air due to heat stroke, while she was reading out updates on a heatwave.
More at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/14/india-election-will-a-forty-f
ive-degree-heat-wave-affect-who-voters-choose
The ruling political party has mentioned achieving net-zero emissions by 2070, transitioning to non-fossil fuel energy sources. But what is actually happening? India's coal-fired electricity generation scaled a new high in January 2024 as the world's second-largest coal user after China cranked coal's share of the country's electricity generation mix to a record 80%.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-coal-fired-electric
ity-output-emissions-hit-record-highs-2024-03-12/
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World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked By A Storm Just Before Launch
Image from video: https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/panels.JPG
Dr. Willie Soon; Who could have predicted acres of fragile floating structures would be vulnerable to bad weather?
"Madhya Pradesh: Summer Storm Damages World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant at Omkareshwar Dam (Watch Video)
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1787224785170190752/mediaVi
ewer?currentTweet=1787224785170190752¤tTweetUser=CitizenFreePres
Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a floating solar plant at Madhya Pradesh’s Omkareshwar dam. The floating solar plant, situated in the backwater of the dam, is the biggest of its kind in the world. A joint venture between Madhya Pradesh Govt and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC), the project was nearly completed and ready for its launch. A part of the project became operational last week.
The project near the village of Kelwa Khurd, aimed at generating 100 MW of electricity, with additional capacities of 88MW at Indawadi and 90 MW at Ekhand village. However, on Tuesday, summer storms with the speed of 50kmph hit the project and threw the solar panels all around the place. No employee was fortunately injured."
Read more: https://www.lokmattimes.com/national/madhya-pradesh-summer-storm-damag
es-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-at-omkareshwar-dam-watch-video-a514/
Anyone who has ever owned a boat, particular a large boat which gets left in the water, knows what a harsh environment the sea can be. Some kind of failure was inevitable. If it hadn’t been a storm, there are plenty of other things which could have gone wrong.
Greens keep telling us we can expect more frequent and extreme superstorms – so what is the point of building vulnerable floating structures?
Plastics tend to disintegrate under tropical sunlight, especially when in contact with water or water spray. Ultraviolet from the sun drives exotic chemical reactions, which leads to chemical breakdown.
Metal sitting in water is difficult to manage, even stainless steel is not immune to corrosion. All metal structures in contact with water need to be protected with sacrificial anodes or comparable protective measures. Electricity and metal are an especially bad combination, any electrical fault which causes a current to run through metal in contact with water can cause corrosion to occur thousands of times faster than normal.
Let us hope developers and politicians take the hint, and stop throwing our money at inherently flawed ideas like floating solar arrays.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/09/worlds-largest-floating-solar-f
arm-wrecked-by-a-storm/
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Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
Solar Freakin' Roadways would have been a much better investment.
Oh... wait.
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Quote:Collapse is common when the engineers are incompetent. From today:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Solar Freakin' Roadways would have been a much better investment.
Oh... wait.
At least 14 killed as billboard collapses in Mumbai during thunderstorm
The billboard collapsed on some houses and a petrol station next to a busy road in the eastern suburb of Ghatkopar following gusty winds and rain. Mumbai’s municipal corporation said 74 people were taken to hospital with injuries following the accident, of which 31 were discharged.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/14/at-least-14-killed-as-billboa
rd-collapses-in-mumbai-during-thunderstorm
No conclusion can be drawn about solar power from the collapse of solar collectors in the wind or the collapse of a billboard, other than being a cheapskate causes failure.
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