545 #ClimateSolution #EnergyIndependence

As always: the cost comes before the benefit and you plan ahead for years, but the comfort is immediate.
Energy Independence does not mean off-grid, beside costs there is a more important motive to do it: lower the load off the grid.
Now you may take pen and paper. Lots of figures, calculation besides other information.
But, as stated, the conditions differ very much on the country !
This channel is 'famous' for the valuable links in the description !

"What I Learned After 1 Year with New Solar Panels" [16:39 min]
by Undecided with Matt Ferrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjhD1InL64

Quote by UwMF:
"Nov 19, 2024
It’s been a full year since I installed these solar panels and a large home battery on my new house … and I’ve got some news. They say solar power can save you thousands on energy bills, but what actually happened. This past year was a bit of a rollercoaster ride from the challenges of getting them installed to seeing how well they handled powering my all-electric house through heat waves, freezing temperatures, and a couple of small power outages. Spoiler alert: solar isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Was my net zero house ready for all of it? Was I able to achieve net zero energy? And most important … was it worth it? Let’s just say, I learned some pretty surprising lessons that may be of use to you."

Time stamps
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - What We Installed
03:19 - The Reasoning
06:29 - House Performance & Costs
14:04 - Takeaways

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543 #ClimateEmergency #ModernFarming #Denmark

[1]I don't really know the situation in Denmark, but in my country taxing the emissions would not be enough. In my opinion 'we' are to far gone, and only a serious reduction of cattle [cows and pigs] would make reduction of emmissions work. more over it would only be susceptible to creative accounting tricks. As it is now happening with the dreaded nitrogen.

"Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first"
by Jan M. Olsen for Associated Press [Jun 26, 2024]

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-cow-tax-greenhouse-gases-9a570518639e0a1990806fd1a05ac11a

Quotes:
"COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will tax livestock farmers for the greenhouse gases emitted by their cows, sheep and pigs from 2030, the first country to do so as it targets a major source of methane emissions, one of the most potent gases contributing to global warming.

"The aim is to reduce Danish greenhouse gas emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2030, said Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus."

"As of 2030, Danish livestock farmers will be taxed 300 kroner ($43) per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2030. The tax will increase to 750 kroner ($108) by 2035. However, because of an income tax deduction of 60%, the actual cost per ton will start at 120 kroner ($17.3) and increase to 300 kroner by 2035."

"Although carbon dioxide typically gets more attention for its role in climate change, methane traps about 87 times more heat on a 20-year timescale, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."

"“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Bruus said, adding Denmark “will be the first country in the world to introduce a real CO2 tax on agriculture” and hoped other countries would follow suit.
New Zealand had passed a similar law due to take effect in 2025. However, the legislation was removed from the statute book on Wednesday after hefty criticism from farmers"

"Denmark’s move comes after months of protests by farmers across Europe against climate change mitigation measures and regulations that they say are driving them to bankruptcy.
The Danish Society for Nature Conservation, the largest nature conservation and environmental organization in Denmark, described the tax agreement as “a historic compromise".
“We have succeeded in landing a compromise on a CO2 tax, which lays the groundwork for a restructured food industry -– also on the other side of 2030,” its head Maria Reumert Gjerding said after the talks in which they took part.”

"According to Statistic Denmark, there were as of June 30, 2022, 1,484,377 cows in the Scandinavian country, a slight drop compared to the previous year."

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538 #ClimateSolutions #Trump #CleanEnergy

[The point is: you can't count on federal support [but could you ever] Hard work of activists and communities made sure #ClimateSolutions and #CleanEnergy will continue, in defiance of #Trump. Don't despair: get active or support #Local JdeB]

"He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution"
by Matt Simon for Grist [Nov 11, 2024] [Audio Available]

https://grist.org/economics/hell-try-but-trump-cant-stop-the-clean-energy-revolution/

Quotes:
"The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from the IRA."

"In his second term, the president-elect is expected to be downright hostile toward clean energy and climate action, having promised to rescind the remaining funding in Joe Biden’s landmark climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA."

"Looking beyond the IRA, Trump has vowed to increase fossil fuel production and once again withdraw from the Paris Agreement."

"A core irony of climate change is that markets incentivized the wide-scale burning of fossil fuels beginning in the Industrial Revolution, creating the mess humanity is mired in, and now those markets are driving a renewables revolution that will help fix it. Coal, oil, and gas are commodities whose prices fluctuate."

"[By contrast,] solar panels, wind turbines, and appliances like induction stoves only get better — more efficient and cheaper — with time. Energy experts believe solar power, the price of which fell 90 percent between 2010 and 2020, will continue to proliferate across the landscape."

"Last year, Maine announced it had reached its goal of installing 100,000 heat pumps two years ahead of schedule, in part thanks to state rebates. So if the Trump administration cut off the funding for heat pumps that the IRA provides, states could pick up the slack."

"Local utilities are also finding novel ways to use heat pumps. Over in Massachusetts, for example, the utility Eversource Energy is experimenting with “networked geothermal,” in which the homes within a given neighborhood tap into water pumped from underground. Heat pumps use that water to heat or cool a space, which is vastly more efficient than burning natural gas."

"State regulators are also pressuring utilities to slash emissions, further driving the adoption of wind and solar power. As part of California’s goal of decarbonizing its power by 2045, the state increased battery storage by 757 percent between 2019 and 2023. Even electric cars and electric school buses can provide backup power for the grid."

"Trump could slap tariffs on imported solar panels and thereby increase their price, but that would likely boost domestic manufacturing of those panels..."

"The irony of Biden’s signature climate bill is states that overwhelmingly support Trump are some of the largest recipients of its funding. That means tampering with the IRA could land a Trump administration in political peril even with Republican control of the Senate, if not Congress.
“Something like 66 percent of all of the spending in the IRA has gone to red states,” Hausfather said. “There certainly is a contingency in the Republican party now that’s going to support keeping some of those subsidies around.”

“State governments are going to be the clearest counterbalance to the direction that Donald Trump will take the country on environmental policy,”

"Last week, 62 percent of Washington state voters soundly rejected a ballot initiative seeking to repeal a landmark law that raised funds to fight climate change. “Donald Trump’s going to learn something that our opponents in our initiative battle learned: Once people have a benefit, you can’t take it away,”

"Even without federal funding, states regularly embark on their own large-scale projects to adapt to climate change. California voters, for instance, just overwhelmingly approved a $10 billion bond to fund water, climate, and wildfire prevention projects."

"And not in isolation, because mayors talk: Cities share information about how to write legislation, such as laws that reduce carbon emissions in buildings and ensure that new developments are connected to public transportation. They transform their food systems to grow more crops locally../\..“If anything,” Miller said, “having to push against an administration, like that we imagine is coming, will redouble the efforts to push at the local level.”

"All told, climate progress has been unfolding on so many fronts for so many years — often without enough support from the federal government — that it will persist regardless of who occupies the White House. “This too shall pass, and hopefully we will be in a more favorable policy environment in four years,” Hausfather said. “In the meantime, we’ll have to keep trying to make clean energy cheap and hope that it wins on its merits.”

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$1tn a year in climate finance to the poor world will be needed by 2030 to meet the core goal of the Paris agreement, to limit global heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/19/it-is-feasible-climate-finance-wont-burden-rich-countries-say-economists

#Brazil #COP30[2025] #Signature #IndiginousAmazon

"Stand in Solidarity with Indigenous Leaders in Brazil!"

https://350.org/cop29-solidarity/?akid=430252.4749031.9eQT0z

#IndigenousPeople play a crucial role in finding #Solutions to the climate crisis rooted in justice, respect and care for our planet. They recognize that the time to act is now.
Next year, Brazil will host the UN’s climate talks, COP30 in the Brazilian Amazon. But its Indigenous leaders and communities are being sidelined from these critical discussions.
Right now, Indigenous leaders of Brazil are urging their government to give them a seat at the table as co-hosts of COP30.
Indigenous knowledge is the key to creating just climate policies and solutions to climate impacts. It is also crucial to protecting the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon plays an essential role in regulating the Earth’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide.

Sign this petition to support the Indigenous The Answer Is Us campaign. Tell Brazil’s government to accept its Indigenous Peoples as co-hosts of COP30.

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At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how severely human-caused global heating is supercharging extreme weather.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal