Human folly for 02025-09-01

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• (xcancel.com):

  Electrical #energy #pricing around the globe; US$0.08/kWh in #China.

• Cost of electricity by country (worldpopulationreview.com):

  The actual source for electrical #energy #pricing around the globe; US$0.08/kWh in #China.

• (xcancel.com):

  Provincial-level analysis of #solar #energy in #China; #Shandong is seeing persistent negative spot electricity prices.

• (xcancel.com):

  huge rise in #solar panel sales imported from #China in #Africa, especially in #Nigeria, #Algeria, and #Congo, according to Dave Jones of #Ember Energy.

• The first evidence of a take off in solar in Africa (ember-energy.org):

  #Ember #Energy report on #solar taking off in #Africa

• Jwyb (termbin.com):

  Xlib bindings for #GForth in include unix/x.fs. #Forth #X-Windows

• (xcancel.com):

  #China consumed 1023TWh of electrical #energy in July, which is an average of 1.4 terawatts.

• (threadreaderapp.com):

  The thread by Dave Jones of #Ember #Energy about #solar taking off in #Africa, reformatted.

• (xcancel.com):

  wow, the #China electrical #energy grid hit a peak of 1508 gigawatts last month.

• Pmc3690849 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  “Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century” “from 6.9 Gt of carbon per y in 1910 to 14.8 GtC/y in 2005” which by my calculations at 30MJ/kg is about 14 terawatts (HHV). #HANPP #energy

• (xcancel.com):

  sources on #energy in #China, especially electrical, mostly from the NEA

• A perspective on the volatility in Chinese power supply (lantaugroup.com):

  the #energy crisis in #China in 02021 involved cutting off electricity to industrial users for sometimes weeks

• Measures to accelerate and deepen power sector reforms announced in China (lantaugroup.com):

  The 02021 #China #energy crisis spurred market reforms #history

• Why countries trade each other while fighting Mariya Grinberg book (news.mit.edu):

  #Book "Trade in War" by Mariya Grinberg outlining how countries at war keep trading with each other.

• (xcancel.com):

  David Fishman’s capsule summary of the 02021 electrical #energy crisis in #China: “coal-fired power generators had to absorb high fuels costs from the mostly-liberalized coal market, but were restricted in how much money they could recoup by raising power rates. After many months of losses, generators literally ran out of money to buy coal, were sick of generating at a loss, and shut down their plants.” #history

• (xcancel.com):

  David Fishman on the 02022 Sichuan electrical #energy crisis due to drought. #China #history

• (xcancel.com):

  David Fishman on capacity factors and curtailment in #China’s electrical #energy market, saying the “thermal fleet” is at 39% CF now. “Yes, China is squatting on an entire USA’s worth of untapped power generation solely within the unused capacity of its current thermal fleet.”

• (xcancel.com):

  A claim that #India has 484 GW of electrical #energy generation capacity.

• (xcancel.com):

  #China CO₂ emissions have fallen 1% from their peak last year, while its electric #energy industry’s emissions have fallen 3%

• (xcancel.com):

  David Fishman thread on Jishou’s “ghost city” where maybe a lot of people will move in soon. #China

• PL matrix (wiki.postgresql.org):

  #Postgres supports as embedded procedural languages C#, F# (and other #dotnet languages), Haskell, Java, JS, Julia, LOLCODE, Lua, Perl, PHP, PL/pgSQL, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scheme (unmaintained), shell, Tcl, and XSLT. #SQL

• Analysis record solar growth keeps chinas CO2 falling in first half of (carbonbrief.org):

  Lauri Myllyvirta’s analysis of #China CO₂ dropping mostly because of #energy

• (xcancel.com):

  #solar #energy #data from #China including rooftop solar