So much for “H2 ready“! As the first utility in Germany, the local utility of the City of Augsburg informed their customers that they will phase out their entire Gas network by 2040 and customers should plan ahead how to make the switch in the coming years. In my opinion: An important step in the decarbonization of our building stock!
The world’s richest countries are at odds over ending subsidies for #oil & #gas development as the US 🇺🇸 and EU 🇪🇺 differed over the extent of a ban https://buff.ly/3PFwxv0
Ist es normal, dass ich, nachdem ich gerade von APS-C zu Vollformat gewechselt bin, viele Videos zu Mittelformat Hasselblads bei YouTube reingespielt bekomme?
"In #Schockwellen kann man im Detail nachlesen, welche Rollen deutsche Konzerne wie #BASF, #RWE und #Wintershall bei der Konstruktion der extremen Abhängigkeit Deutschlands von russischem #Gas spielten. Nachdem das Buch erschienen war, gab es in deutschen Medien eine bemerkenswerte Kampagne gegen Kemfert, einer international hochrenommierten Wissenschaftlerin. Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus der Wissenschaft sahen sich genötigt, Kemfert in einem offenen Brief zu verteidigen." Buch @chrisstoecker
Talking their own book: A growing share of Execs are expecting a slower #EnergyTransition. >60% expect the world to achieve #NetZero by 2060 or later, up from 54% in 2022, according to a Bain survey. #Oil & #gas🛢️Execs the most likely to share this view https://buff.ly/4ciKyZ7
Three of the largest US 🇺🇸 #oil & #gas co's rank at or near the bottom of a scale assessing alignment with Paris Agreement goals, according to a new Carbon Tracker analysis. "Results contradict the companies' assertions they support a low-carbon future" https://buff.ly/49d7PsY
"What’s this chart, you ask? It’s the International Energy Agency’s 2024 methane tracker chart on the countries with the worst #methane#emissions from their oil and #gas industries. Which country is number one with a bullet? That would be the United States. On a related note, did you know that the United States is also the world’s largest producer of #oil by volume?"
Axios: Gas execs sees tailwinds from AI power needs
"Why it matters: Generative AI is joining with other advanced computing, electric vehicles, crypto-mining, new manufacturing and more to start sending U.S. power demand sharply upward after many years of largely flat consumption.
State of play: "AI and data centers are going to require a lot more energy, and that means a lot more energy produced," Mike Sommers, CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, told Axios recently."
Big announcement from Cambridge University as it halts donations💰from #FossilFuel groups🛑
“Accepting funding validates the industry at a time when it is threatening the future viability of life on earth, inc by developing new #oil & #gas infrastructure" https://buff.ly/3Vj6nBX
We just received our "jaarafrekening". This is the final yearly invoice sent by our energy company. They are about to pay us €252, and we will continue to pay them €5 per month next year, just like last year. i.e. overall our energy company is paying us about €200 for last year's electricity. Everything in our home is powered by electricity. No gas connection. No wood burner.
Nothing that we've done to achieve a negative energy bill was especially expensive. In particular, our installation of a air-air heat pump and a couple of extra solar panels cost far less than several of our neighbours paid for the wood burning stoves they've installed, which stink up the neighbourhood all through winter.
We also don't have to buy wood to burn.
People concerned about the cost of heating with gas buy woodburners at a higher rate than heat pumps largely because they have no idea about the relative costs. If they knew, perhaps we could have clean air.
I'll write a comprehensive blog post at the end of March about energy consumption, costs & emissions due to the heatpump vs. gas this winter. I can tell you already that we using a lot less total energy now.
Canadian banks are leaders in funding fossil fuel expansion, report.
"global analysis on fossil fuel banking. Endorsed by 624 organizations from 75 countries, it reveals the truth of banks’ commitments to the climate by examining their financing of the #fossil fuel industry.
For the first time since 2019, a Canadian bank is the #1 annual financier of fossil fuels rather than US bank JP Morgan Chase. Royal Bank of #Canada (#RBC) showered fossil fuel projects with $41 billion dollars in 2022, including $4.8 billion for #tar sands and $7.4 billion into fracking. Canadian banks are becoming the banks of last resort for fossil fuels, providing $862 billion to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement."
a thread: 🧵@ende_gelaende#EndeGelände protestiert vor dem schwimmenden Terminal in #Brunsbüttel. „Der Import von #LNG ist ein #Klimaverbrechen“. Internationaler Protesttag fordert „North Sea #Fossil Free!“ Klimaaktivist*innen des Aktionsbündnisses Ende Gelände blockieren seit 9 Uhr die Zufahrt zum schwimmenden LNG-Terminal im Industriehafen Brunsbüttel. Sie fordern den sofortigen Stopp der Importe von Flüssiggas.
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LNG ist nach neusten wissenschaftlichen Studien klimaschädlicher als #Kohle. In Brunsbüttel ist derzeit ein schwimmendes LNG-Terminal in Betrieb, das 2026/27 durch ein festes Terminal ersetzt werden soll. Zeitgleich mit den Aktivist*innen von Ende Gelände protestieren heute Klimagruppen in insgesamt sechs Nordseeanrainerländern gegen fossile Infrastruktur und die Ausbeutung von #Öl- und #Gas-Vorkommen in der Nordsee. https://www.ende-gelaende.org/press-release/pressemitteilung-vom-16-03-2024/
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So we're in an #election year and #gas prices are surging. Can this be scratched down as a counter point to the folks that think the president controls gas prices?
OR
When it inevitably comes back down, likely before November, that will be further evidence of that particular politico-petro cabal.
Block it!
Europäische Gaskonferenz blockieren!
26.-29. März in #Wien
"Der kapitalistische Staat orientiert sich nicht an den Interessen der Vielen. Er hat sich noch nie dafür interessiert, ob Menschen unter kapitalistischer Ausbeutung leiden und zeitgleich an andere massive Gewinne ausgeschüttet werden. Während alle Preise erhöht werden, bleiben Löhne und Sozialleistungen niedrig. Gewinner*innen sind einmal mehr Unternehmen. Solche wollen sich vom 26. bis 29. März zur "European Gas Conference" in Wien versammeln. Der Wirtschaftsstandort Europa soll gesichert werden, wodurch gleichzeitig neokoloniale Ausbeutungsverhältnisse und die weitere fossile Energiegewinnung zementiert werden."
"Mit einem alternativen Gipfel protestierten Aktivistinnen gegen den fossilen #Kapitalismus
Als für den 27. März eine Demonstration gegen die European Gas Conference angekündigt wurde, sagten die Veranstalter ihre Konferenz kurzerhand ab. Sie sei auf »unbestimmte Zeit verschoben«, wie Phill Hirons, Managing Director des Energy Council auf nd-Nachfrage mitteilte. Es habe zu starke Sicherheitsbedenken gegeben....."