Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 22, 2023
Tom Shepstone
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Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.
This week in natural gas; will Shapiro kill RGGI or Homer, fixing the Feds’ blackouts, when climate junk science unsettles, how much CO2 is really in the air and gas stoves for thee and not me.
Look for these stories below, including links to the original articles!
Just Say Now to RGGI and Stop Killing Homer!
Josh Shapiro is no fan of natural gas and his committed to his party’s line, which is that communities such as Homer are just collateral damage in the struggle to replace communities with oligarchies of the under-wealthy who fund his own campaigns for power.
During his campaign, Gov. Josh Shapiro expressed concern over a new carbon tax initiated by his predecessor, Tom Wolf, noting the impact on energy jobs and already soaring energy prices.
“I have real concerns about the impact it will have on consumer prices, hurting families at a time when many are struggling really to put food on the table,” candidate Shapiro said, in reference to the tax.
But since taking office, Gov. Shapiro hasn’t worked with the legislature to oppose the carbon tax. The consequences are clear: Most recently, Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant, Homer City, is shutting down. With even more jobs and further increases in energy prices on the line, Pennsylvanians need their governor to block this tax on energy…
Homer City is among the first victims of RGGI — but may not be the last. As Rep. Jim Stuzzi (R-Indiana County) aptly puts it, “Like his predecessor… [Shapiro] has no plan to address the pending job losses in local communities, the inevitable rise in statewide energy prices and recognition of Pennsylvania’s existing natural resources as part of a balanced energy portfolio.”
Shapiro tacitly kills jobs and damages the region’s economy by allowing RGGI to stand. It’s past time to pull the plug.
Josh Shapiro is, of course, a radical enviro. He is happy to let Homer City and the trade unions who supported him die on the vine while he pretends be their advocate.
Hat Tip: G.T.
Challenge? What Challenge? What Are You Idiots Destroying Now?
What in God’s name are the Feds up to now? This grant program proposes to spend $850,000 of money borrowed from our great-great-grandchildren, central bankers who want us under their thumb and and communists who aim to destroy us on a program to address power outages caused by government support of the Big Old Climate Scam (BOCS) that is already boxing us in. It is either an attempt to throw a few bucks at BOCS propagandists and/or it’s intended to soften expectations of reliable energy as the BOCS folk deliver ever more brownouts and blackouts with “green” energy as they kill off natural gas and other reliable fuels.
New Prize Competition: Clean Power for Hours Challenge!
In honor of Earth Day 2023, we are announcing a second prize competition on national climate resilience. The Clean Power for Hours Challenge is part of a DHS effort to implement a proactive approach to climate change adaptation and resilience. The Challenge is designed to find innovative solutions that can help facility providers of essential services keep operating during a power outage.
For full rules and to enter the Clean Power for Hours Challenge visit Challenge.gov.
Key Dates and Prizes
Opening date for submissions: Friday, April 21, 2023 – 03:00 PM ET
Closing date for submissions: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 – 08:00 PM ET
The total cash prize pool is $850,000. The Challenge is open to individuals who are over the age of 18 and are U.S. citizens, permanent legal residents, and businesses incorporated in the United States.
The Challenge will take place in two stages. In the first stage up to 15 finalists will win $10,000 and advance to the second stage. The Finalists will be announced in August 2023 and automatically proceed to the second stage.
In the second stage, finalists will compete with their advanced solution for:
- Grand Prize Winner: $400,000
- Runner-up Winner: $200,000
- Honorable Mentions: $50,000 (up to 2)
Prize Winners will be announced in February 2024. (All dates are subject to change.)
Description
We are looking for innovative back-up power solutions that will help critical facilities continue to operate during electrical outages. Winning solutions will be affordable, easy-to-use, and environmentally friendly power sources that can provide on-site power generation for critical facilities that provide essential services to communities across the United States. This Challenge is seeking to identify and catalyze existing cutting-edge technologies with a Technical Readiness Level (TRL) of 6 or higher that can be used to continue essential facility operations in an event of a power failure or disruption lasting more than 36 hours.
This is particularly important to National Critical Facilities (NCF) that support essential community lifelines services (basic needs like emergency services, urgent healthcare, and food/water).
What a complete joke and it’s being advanced under the name of most disreputable cabinet member in recent memory, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a man who delivered the worst border crisis in memory and has lied like no other about it.
Hat Tip: M.S.
When Climate Junk Science Unsettles
What is science today? As we have demonstrated over and over gain here with respect to supposed natural gas issues, largely junk.
There’s some news on the “settled science” of climate change. A March 16 study published in Nature Geoscience findsthat methane absorbs a good deal of atmospheric solar radiation, which cuts previous estimates of the gas’s warming effect by 30 percent. If you had said on March 15 that people were making too big a deal about the warming effects of methane, you’d have been branded a “climate denier.” Now, you’re just following the science.
And if you’ve been following the science, you’re probably quite dizzy. Just a month before the Nature Geoscience study was published, Inside Climate News reported that “scientists at Stanford…concluded that the EPA has radically undervalued the climate impact of methane.”
Cow fart control in the new world of methane science?
…Many Americans are rightly furious about the lack of scientific rigor behind public health policies enacted during the Covid pandemic. But the truth is, the growing consensus on the origins of the virus, and the inefficacy of masks, lockdowns, and school closures is a surprising victory for public skepticism. It only took three years for these suspected truths to seep out. When it comes to climate change, we’re going on three decades of expert fear-mongering, and the fog of official opinion just keeps getting thicker. So, too, does the climate-mitigation industry. Just two days ago, Benzinga noted that Bill Gates recently invested heavily in Windfall Bio, “a startup that is taking dead aim at methane emissions from large cattle farms, which is one of the main sources of methane in the atmosphere.”
The difference between the science of climate change and the science of Covid-19 is that the latter forced us immediately to curtail our lives dramatically. This prompted resentment, doubt, and a demand for clear answers. When it comes to climate change, we’re subjected to some relatively minor inconveniences and a few easily ignored but costly acronyms (who’s ever heard of MERP?). So the policies and investments just accrue, even as the science seems to change here and there. Which is why the science never changes too much for too long and is always steered back on course. Studies are funded to combat studies. Methane will soon be found to be more deadly than we ever thought.
Yes, the ugly truth about science is that it’s no longer honest. It’s become the maidservant of corporatists and politicians eager for ever more wealth and power.
Hat Tip: S.H.
And, It’s Not Just Junk Methane Science…
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Hat Tip: D.S.
And, Here’s Our Environmentally Correct V-P
Hat Tip: R.N.
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