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You mean commoners don't have their own Cessnas?


Daily Mail (8/19/19) reports: "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were embroiled in another hypocrisy row today after being pictured leaving the south of France over the weekend in a fourth trip by private jet in just 11 days. Prince Harry and Meghan, who have been outspoken on environmental issues in recent months, generated an estimated seven times the emissions per person compared to a commercial flight when flying home from Nice. Photographs of the royal couple and three-month-old Archie showed the family stepping on board the Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign jet on Saturday at about 3pm local time, having arrived in France three days earlier. Royal experts said the British public do not want to be 'lectured on climate change by those who don't do follow their own advice', while MPs said the trips do not 'fit with their public image' they project as eco-warriors." 




"For reasons of safety and basic urban functionality, it's time to start banning private automobiles from America's urban cores."

 

– Ryan Cooper, The Week

He really doesn't get it.


Clear Energy Alliance (8/19/19) video: 

Cutting of the nose to spite the face.


North State Journal (8/14/19) reports: "A seven-month investigation and numerous public information requests have revealed the move to increase solar power might be leading to an increase in the very emissions alternative energy sources aim to reduce. Duke spokeswoman Kim Crawford confirmed that increased solar power on the state’s electric grid is increasing emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), a dangerous air pollutant. She said that reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could also reverse if current solar growth continues without policy changes. Climate advocates blame increases in manmade gases like CO2 for global warming and have promoted solar power as environmentally clean. An increase in emissions triggers the need to rethink national energy policy, experts say."

You may sweat to your heart's content, but I'll be chilling at 68°, thank you very much.


WTSP Tampa (8/19/19) reports: "Federal program Energy Star might not have been thinking of Floridians when it made recommendations for in-home air conditioners. Consumer Reports last month released some settings recommendations for air conditioners to help cut down energy usage and cost. Even in relatively mild areas of the U.S. that don't consistently experience long-term heat waves, energy bills can still shoot up in the summer months.  Energy Star, the federal program from the DOE and the Environmental Protection Agency, said the coolest you should keep your home is 78 degrees when you're home. When you're at work or away, the program recommends setting it at 85 degrees. When you're sleeping, Energy Star said to set the thermostat at 82 degrees."

"It could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?"


E&E News (8/19/19) reports: "Electric vehicle chargers could offer low-hanging fruit for hackers hoping to disrupt the power grid, according to researchers at New York University. Attackers would need to hack into about 1,000 EV charging points to destabilize New York City's power grid, under a scenario in the new report, potentially triggering a blackout on par with last month's outage for 72,000 Consolidated Edison Inc. customers. The researchers note that EV cyberattacks are still an 'emerging vulnerability' that can be fixed with a combination of good cybersecurity practices and grid planning. 'This is an extremely distributed resource — you have hundreds of different vehicles in different parts of the city, and it's really difficult to see them in aggregate,' said Yury Dvorkin, one of the paper's co-authors and an assistant professor in the NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 'What if somebody was going to exploit this high-wattage load in order to intentionally hamper the power grid and damage certain equipment?'"

Energy Markets

 
WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $56.32
Natural Gas: ↓ $2.20
Gasoline: ↓ $2.61
Diesel: ↓ $2.95
Heating Oil: ↑ $183.39
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $59.77
US Rig Count: ↓ 968

 
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