Study: Africa’s Green Energy Transition “Unlikely”

When making a guess based on no evidence or inventing a statistic, it’s always best to be very precise. That way others are fooled into believing your fantasies.

Pauleta,
How about all the many scary climate predictions that have not come to pass? Maybe you get some kind of subconscious pleasure out of being scared. There are many among you that would consider it bad news if climate change turned out to be a non-problem.

I read it was 14th July 2145 at 1:47:33 pm

Thanks for showing us that models are NOT REALITY

The CHIMP5/6 models can now be totally ignored as NOT REALITY

They are the only place that atmospheric CO2 causes warming

Wouldn’t you agree, griff.

In other words, it’s standard fare for the climate alarmist set.

All models are speculation based on incomplete shonky data, particularly climate models

Griff,

You’ve gone from woke to woken up!

By the same people that can’t do math and think renewables can drive a western economy.

The ones that pretended to hold that view are the same ones that wanted to term coal, oil & gas as “old world”. They are the propagandists, the lairs, and the would be beneficiaries of the lie (I am leaving out the odd dupes since they are few and far between at this point in time; the ‘beneficiaries’ include those that are on board just make themselves better about their worthless lives).

True old world energy sources are wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, & slave. Galina Alova, Philipp A. Trotter & Alex Money are liars and propagandists.

The new Colonialists-western Progressives.

It is the widely shared view of the green, anti-industrial, climate alarmist. Big champions of global poverty as idyllic, unencumbered living, and shaming/punishing people who don’t share their world view. It’s complicated. 🤣

Unicorns fairies and doom pixies. Sarc but I think you knew.

Africans will dodge one bullet as their new power plants will hopefully outlast the green machine. They will walk into another by being in beholden to the Chinese for ever. The western world is forcing them into this by refusing power plant loans that are not green.

BBC journalists allhave the same view, which they think us widely shared.

Midwits.

It is still called the dark continent in part because there is very little electricity outside of large cities. 2500 plants will likely double the number on what is a very large piece of real estate. It likely still won’t extend power outside those few large cities though. Africa needs major investment in power infrastructure, and likely won’t get it while their corrupt governments steal everything that isn’t nailed down.

That’s a lot of dung.

Actually, they threw a bunch of data on actual past power plant and related facilities development timelines into a hopper (database) and let the computer mull over all the relationships (AI model development) until it developed some computer-world “rules” as to the likelihood of power plant development scenarios. They applied those model-world rules to the latest existing plans for power plant developments throughout Africa over the next 10 years. Frankly, I’m shocked they could even come up with 10% ‘ruinables’ in the future power plant mix. I suspect some green NGOs put the thumb on the scales for ‘ruinables.’

They also believe that modeled output = data and use it accordingly.

Apparently it takes machine learning to figure out that the power plants most likely to get built are the ones that are economic.

I blame Star Trek. Mr Spock could model anything perfectly and calculate the odds of success of an action that’s never been tried before.

With Africa’s very large coal reserves, and the need for RELIABLE electricity to lift the country from third world standards..

…. even a common sense model would show COAL is the way forward for most African countries.

There is a cadre of them that thinks the whole universe as we experience it is nothing but someone else’s computer model.

That’s because China allows bribes and makes promises it doesn’t intend to keep.

Your right. The Chinese realize Sub-Saharan Africa cannot build nor maintain a modern society. The Chinese plan to be the camel with its head in the tent.

It’s you. It makes perfect sense and the use of tenses is correct and appropriate.

“…is there really that much snow on ground down south now?”

We had a couple of big snow storms here in Northeastern Ohio but not much is left on the ground. They are predicting more snow for this area next week.

Progressive parents try to protect their offspring from evil sights. White has conclusively been proven evil, therefore …

AS I recall, it was a NY Stater, among others, who was predicting snow would be a thing of the past. Didn’t I read recently about a record-breaking snowfall in NYC?

But how, then, are you going to make them all sufficiently equal?

Go for it Africa !! don’t let the Greenies achieve their 1 bn population at your expense

Not for those using the opium pipes in the green dens. Everything is a drug dream.

“but will it be enough for the necessary wake-up call.”

Of course not! Hard, cold reality (pun intended) is way too difficult for today’s greenies to face up to!

From the link:
“1) The polar cold wave occurred earlier than meteorologically expected, with low temperatures for France.”

Where is griff if he is needed ?
Wasn’t he always telling us, to predict wind at minutes exactly is soooo easy and than that ?
But not the exact timing for a coldwave ? Unbelievable 😀

and your brain doesn’t have to think too hard…

Why? Because it takes more energy to produce a wind turbine that it will provide over its lifetime – if you include all infrastructure costs. And Africa doesn’t have any infrastructure to support the wind turbines, no steel industry, no fiberglass industry, some concrete industry but probably not enough, no wire production for energy transmission, and on and on and on.

You have to start from the bottom and work your way up. Build just one major coal power plant and you’ll have enough energy to kickstart these industries, including more coal plants. How does a wind turbine do that?

People who know something about power system are becoming unwelcome in the United States. I hope that they reality soon brings us back from the edge, however I have yet to see this light. The regressive left is doubling down as we speak.

Bruce

They felt it would be the same as skipping over having landline telephones and going right to cell networks

Of course, cell networks work while wind and solar don’t, hence ain’t going to happen

And people think Africans are stupid
Seem pretty smart to me

You have to be kidding! Oh? You are…

Yes, we are forcing them into China’s economic orbit
Stupid and short sighted for the west, but that is how we roll
China taking the long view

Please quit talking about the U.S.

You are right.
The Fed corrupts everyone they can, and send the CIA to drag the rest out in public to shove a knife up their anus.
Incompetent Bolshevik-trained rich kids from Florida descend upon Africa to teach us how to grow GMO crops that always fail because we cannot afford the fertilisers and chemicals needed for GMO to grow profitably enough to afford the next season’s GMO seed.
Maladministration is the excuse offered when so-called Aid Packages to Africans are actually loans, at interest, designed to be forever unpayable, and only given under the rules of Good Governence, where all that “Aid” money has to be spent on IMF-approved projects, using IMF-approved suppliers, at IMF-approved prices, meaning 90% of that money actually ends up back in the pockets of those who taxed YOU for that ‘Aid’ they the “administer” on your ignorant behalf.
Very observant from a guy in Dublin to have noticed that!

The reasons for their backwardness go deeper. But we should not go into them here. 🙊You can research them and find them out if you do historical reading about the continent. I hope China isn’t dumb enough to repeat Europe’s foolish colonial path 💩

Pretty much explains the story.

Where, exactly would those reserves be. Just asking, so we will know which “African dictator” the CIA will next drag out onto the street and assassinate with a knife up his ass, like they did with our beloved and respected Colonel Gadhafi, may his soul haunt Hillary forever, the cackling psychopath bitch!

I agree, almost. Subsistence farming is NOT promoted. As a matter of fact, Monsanto and their Chief Evangelist, Baal Gates, spend billions “gifting” GMO tech and factory farm methods, disrupting traditional food sources, bankrupting entire tribes, and the peasants die of hunger and insecticide pollution right next to heavily-secured farms growing nothing but luxury crops for export to richer nations.
Did you know that the infamous Ethiopian famine of the eighties happened right after The Holy Investor realised Ethiopia is the perfect place to grow GMO tomatoes?

 and Moonbeams, don’t forget Moonbeams 💩