Comments on: Climate change. https://www.habitablezone.com/2015/12/10/climate-change/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JEKing https://www.habitablezone.com/2015/12/10/climate-change/#comment-34576 JEKing Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:58:37 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=53554#comment-34576 France serves as a model country for delegates attending COP21 because it is one of the only developed countries in the world to decarbonize electricity production and fossil fuel energy while still providing a high standard of living. As of 2012, France generated over 90% of its electricity from zero carbon sources, including nuclear, hydroelectric, and wind. By producing fewer greenhouse gases, France’s advanced technologies, mostly powered by nuclear power systems, have demonstrated one of the safest and cleanest energy systems in the world. Germany’s political trend is to avoid nuclear power, but so far energy-use rates are subsidised by a surcharge on customers, and the surcharge must go up when more renewable kilowatt-hours are poured into the system. But an unintended side-effect of the policy has been that renewables undercut relatively climate-friendly natural gas on price. This means that traditional utilities have turned instead to much more climate-damaging coal for generation. The result is that prices have gone up and the use of renewable sources has expanded, but Germans have ended up emitting more carbon dioxide as a result of the extra coal—hardly the result the architects of the Energiewende hoped for. https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts Since it seems that globalization is falling under the control of the Eurasian axis, any progress on the global warming issue will require heavy support from China-Russia. These nations seem likely to proceed with more of the French solution than with the German: https://www.rt.com/news/196088-russia-hybrid-nuclear-reactor/ France serves as a model country for delegates attending COP21 because it is one of the only developed countries in the world to decarbonize electricity production and fossil fuel energy while still providing a high standard of living. As of 2012, France generated over 90% of its electricity from zero carbon sources, including nuclear, hydroelectric, and wind. By producing fewer greenhouse gases, France’s advanced technologies, mostly powered by nuclear power systems, have demonstrated one of the safest and cleanest energy systems in the world.

Germany’s political trend is to avoid nuclear power, but so far energy-use rates are subsidised by a surcharge on customers, and the surcharge must go up when more renewable kilowatt-hours are poured into the system. But an unintended side-effect of the policy has been that renewables undercut relatively climate-friendly natural gas on price. This means that traditional utilities have turned instead to much more climate-damaging coal for generation. The result is that prices have gone up and the use of renewable sources has expanded, but Germans have ended up emitting more carbon dioxide as a result of the extra coal—hardly the result the architects of the Energiewende hoped for.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

Since it seems that globalization is falling under the control of the Eurasian axis, any progress on the global warming issue will require heavy support from China-Russia. These nations seem likely to proceed with more of the French solution than with the German:

https://www.rt.com/news/196088-russia-hybrid-nuclear-reactor/

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