Karl Mullen

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Karl Mullen

Karl Mullen

@karltwo2

Katılım Mayıs 2016
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@michael_hoerger Just a heads up that Sarsaigua appears to have corrected their numbers in their latesst update, to something much more consistent with other data in Catalunya and Europe more broadly. A follow-up is probably worthwhile, as it now appears that there was an error of some sort.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA
Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA@michael_hoerger·
Do you remember when Spain was having its largest known surge in transmission of the entire pandemic? I do. Because it's today. #MaskUp
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@CleanPowerDave Yup. Is it even clear that US gas power is lower carbon intensity than modern China coal power, accounting for the leakage? When I poked around in that, I came away feeling like it isn't so clear(and the irony of the US essentially doctoring its climate numbers wasn't lost on me)
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Dave Jones
Dave Jones@CleanPowerDave·
How much cleaner is US electricity than China electricity? The United States gets almost the same share of its electricity from fossil fuels as China🫢 Sure, China is more coal-heavy, but US gas is leaky..
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Francesco Sassi
Francesco Sassi@Frank_Stones·
Are you ready for some more Dunkelfleute? 🇪🇺EU power prices jumps as weather forecasts expect a wind lull lasting for a week in NW and Central Europe. Tomorrow, 🇩🇪German wind generation will dip from 24GW to 2.2GW On thursday🇬🇧UK wind generation will pass from 15GW to 3.6GW
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@xmp125a @sodnik @Frank_Stones And if everyone does that, and connects their grids, it'll work. Just like everyone being like "let's grow food!", but then sometimes drought strikes, and so it's great to be able to trade food to balance that out.
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xmp125a@xmp125a·
@karltwo2 @sodnik @Frank_Stones The strategy of everyone was literally "let's go into wind and solar and when we don't have any, we will import from our neighbors". Germany is just furthest along with this nonsense.
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@sodnik @Frank_Stones Sure, Germany really needs to push to build out more renewables to get their energy costs down like Norway. Same with most of the rest of Europe. Norway should be loving their connection to sunnier more southern grids with what should be abundant solar power, with their hydro.
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@sodnik @Frank_Stones Well, if that means that they likewise get support when their energy is more expensive and Germany's is not, then, yeah. It's kinda the whole point of trade.
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@Classic_Lib_M @rakeen_mabud You should check in on what classical liberalism has to say about uncompetitive and concentrated markets, if you're going to claim a connection to it
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Michael (Classical Liberal)
Michael (Classical Liberal)@Classic_Lib_M·
@rakeen_mabud So? Last I checked it was a free country. I could advertise my pickup truck for a million, but others sell for less. Food is a commodity, and stores compete on price every day. Charge too much and you lose customers
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Rakeen Mabud
Rakeen Mabud@rakeen_mabud·
“Kroger Co. hiked prices on milk and eggs more than needed to account for inflation, the company’s top pricing executive testified” The thing is, execs all over the economy were saying this stuff on their earning calls back in 2021. This was not a secret. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@petergklein Economics can both be a real science and not have near the level of precision of either epidemiology or presumed by the hubris of some economists. Many other real sciences are similar, including in the medical sciences. The problem is where some project precision they don't have.
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Peter G. Klein
Peter G. Klein@petergklein·
Of course, if a magazine wants to give space to price-science deniers, that's its business. But these outlets shouldn't be lecturing the rest of us continuously on The Science(TM)
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@nickvanosdol Good point on mine methane, and agreed on non-warming pollution. I guess I'm being reactive to "US-good, China-bad" discourse (elsewhere) that relies on artificially low warming numbers for methane gas (and ignoring how little effort the US is putting in v. China/EU).
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nvo
nvo@nickvanosdol·
@karltwo2 Not 100% sure but coal mine methane is also a major methane emissions source I think once you add air pollution in as a consideration the benefit is clear but other cleaner gen sources certainly even better
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nvo@nickvanosdol·
For no particular reason (other than that y'all liked it last time), here are 10 thought-provoking charts re: global energy transition dynamics: 1) Asia coal use far outstrips North America + Europe combined
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@nickvanosdol Are we confident that US LNG is better for climate change as compared to coal? With the levels of leakage there seem to be, it seems to be pretty close to equivalent, especially w newer, more efficient coal plants. (easily reducable leakage, perhaps, but no one seem to be fixing)
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nvo@nickvanosdol·
7) as far as the potential for more coal-to-gas switching is concerned, there's probably only so much U.S. LNG exports can do the brunt will probably fall on other assets, hence massive Chinese investments in nuclear & renewables (not to mention the energy security dimension)
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@loganemitchell @EnvDefenseFund Am I correct in figuring that these are the emissions that would also be super inexpensive (perhaps even negative cost) to stop, but "we" just can't be bothered to do even the slightest bit of effort to stop from destroying the world?
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Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸
Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸@loganemitchell·
New study from @EnvDefenseFund found 7.8% of natural gas extracted from the ground in the Uinta Basin is lost to leakage, highest leakage rate in the USA. Study 👉 edf.org/media/new-data…
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Logan Mitchell PhD 🇺🇸@loganemitchell

Great reporting @Deseret on methane leakage in the Uinta Basin Me: “We have the technology to find & capture wasted gas/energy & by doing that, we’ll not only be better stewards of the environment, but we’ll also be more economically competitive” @Amyjoi16 deseret.com/utah/2024/08/0…

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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@Duncan_BBR @GlobalEcoGuy So, shouldn't we be pushing against that incorrect framing that is generally used to create cover for rich people now to keep being selfish and keep profiting off the harms of others?
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@Duncan_BBR @GlobalEcoGuy But, when the reasoning for not spending money now is because "the debt will saddle future generations", but actually the money spent now would significantly reduce costs to future generations, and NOT spending will "saddle future generations", that's bad reasoning, right?
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@Duncan_BBR @GlobalEcoGuy Well, but doesn't the article explain that doing this actually saves money? So up-front costs, sure, but overall savings suggests to me "not costly", especially if the nation is willing to leverage its collective access to capital.
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Duncan Austin
Duncan Austin@Duncan_BBR·
@GlobalEcoGuy Yes. What I like about this is that it cuts through the prevailing mantra that addressing climate change won't be costly. There is much that we can physically do if we accept that it will cost something. Who will pay is obviously the big issue, but let's have that conversation.
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@drvolts Take a look at how much clean energy NY has actually built in the past decade lol. A lot of folks out there (especially in the US) pretending to care but not being willing to actually do anything, other than constantly fly around the country/world if they can afford to.
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@SamuelHurtadoBE Está empezando a parecer que apagaron las luces. ¿Tiene alguna idea de los costos de ejecutar el programa y si podríamos recaudar fondos para mantenerlo funcionando, incluso si es en una capacidad más limitada?
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@worstall @James_BG Given that you're clearly arguing in bad faith, no, I'm not going to explain to you what you can easily find by the most rudimentary research.
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James Murray
James Murray@James_BG·
As we're doing this as quote tweets, literally the second tweet in the thread states: It also true that it will be impossible to convince other countries to stop digging and drilling unless industrialised nations go first. This is a collective action. Someone has to lead.
Tim Worstall@worstall

Not true in the slightest. How much fossil fuel the UK uses directly has such a trivial effect upon temperatures that we can model it as being zero. It what the other 7,930,000,000 people use that changes temps.

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Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@worstall @James_BG It does not. Are you really so deep into the oversimplification world that you cannot see that?
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Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall@worstall·
@karltwo2 @James_BG It addresses exactly this " sure, give them back a fraction of the resources that have been stolen/appropriated from them"
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Karl Mullen
Karl Mullen@karltwo2·
@worstall @James_BG "the whole world was once poor by modern standards" does not address anything I've said. But, then, I'm sure you know that.
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Tim Worstall
Tim Worstall@worstall·
@karltwo2 @James_BG Err, yes? I've even just given you a reference to one of the grand databases of the relevant numbers. Really, have a look at that spreadsheet. You know, it's both free and informative. Everywhere, always, was shit poor at about $600 per capita per year. Then something happened...
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@michael_hoerger @CleanPowerDave @sodnik @xmp125a @Frank_Stones @Classic_Lib_M @rakeen_mabud @petergklein