Comments on: Ghana To House Largest Solar Power Plant In Africa

By: anderlan

anderlan — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:40:00 +0000

Given that the amount of hydrocarbons going into non-fuel feedstocks is a single digit percentage of the total including that which is burned as fuel, decreasing carbon emissions IS THE SAME AS SHUTTING DOWN THE MAJORITY OF DRILLS. Sorry. As I said, it’s a bubble. Or we are a suicidal civilization. Collapse the carbon bubble or collapse the global civilization bubble.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:04:00 +0000

idk, the same thought/question came to my mind.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:39:00 +0000

I don’t think we have a chance in hell of curtailing climate change by trying to clamp down on oil production and use.

The only route I can see is via efficiency and substitution. The new CAFE standards will help tremendously with efficiency. They should slow usage while we (hopefully) double EV range and bring prices down to acceptable.
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Consider more carefully the severity of global warming. Once the permafrost starts significantly melting things are going to get far worse, far faster. Boil some methane from the slush hanging around on the sea floor and things get cranked up even higher.

It’s not just what we are doing, it’s also what we are in danger of kicking into gear.

Don’t want to build your bonfire too close to the shed where the dynamite is stored….

By: Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:09:00 +0000

Even though I have doubts on the severity of global warming, I don’t recall drilling for gas and oil being the big problem, but rather using fossil fuels for transport and electricity, with coal being the biggest contributors.

Cheap and cheaper solar is paramount to decrease CO2 emissiens, not closing down drills.

By: Bill_Woods

Bill_Woods — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:30:00 +0000

"It has projected that the [155-MW] project will create hundreds of jobs in Ghana (200 permanent jobs ..." Less than 1 MW per worker? Presumably Ghanians are a lot cheaper than American workers, but what on earth are all these people doing?

By: Joe Green Valdez

Joe Green Valdez — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:42:00 +0000

Hope you are well. Do you have any interest in back-up batteries for solar farms? Or batteries that need to be designed for specific use? My batteries are non-hazardous and last 20 years.

Blessings

Joe Valdez

http://www.icelusa.com

By: anderlan

anderlan — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:16:00 +0000

I think Ghana just recently found sizable oil and gas in their coastal waters. The leaders did an about face on support of global warming policy. But with developments like these, I have hope they have a lot of environmentalists (people who see fossils as a bubble) still in their government.