NEWS
WIND DOMINANT IN EUROPE
GAS, COAL REPLACED BY WIND
GAS, COAL REPLACED BY WIND
Euronews
Marie Lecoq, 08-Feb-2024
Wind energy: How are EU countries contributing to the 2030 targets?
Compared to solar panels, wind turbines emit less CO2 into the atmosphere, consume less energy, and produce more energy overall.
In fact, one wind turbine can generate the same amount of electricity per kWh as approximately 48,704 solar panels.
This is in part because solar panels stop producing at night.
“Solar PV has an average capacity factor [i.e. an average output] of 20%, even in Spain or Italy, because at night there is nothing, so you discount all that”.
GAS, COAL REPLACED BY WIND
GAS, COAL REPLACED BY WIND
GAS, COAL REPLACED BY WIND
Euronews
Lotte Limb, 07-Feb-2024
"Unprecedented collapse" in EU coal and gas electricity
More of Europe’s electricity came from wind power than fossil gas for the first time ever last year.
Wind (18%) and solar (9%) produced a record 27 per cent of the bloc’s electricity in 2023 - above a quarter for the first time. Coal and gas took a corresponding nosedive, with the former falling to its lowest ever level at just 12 per cent of the EU’s electricity generation.
CATEGORY 6 HURRICANE?
SARGASSUM WEED PROBLEM
SARGASSUM WEED PROBLEM
Euronews
Ruth Wright, 06-Feb-2024
Stronger hurricanes are here but would a new category keep people safer?
Scientists say category-6 is needed to account for the strength of climate change-induced hurricanes. Since 2013, five storms - all in the Pacific - had winds of 308 kph or higher that would have put them in the new category, with two hitting the Philippines.
"...as temperatures rise, the number of days with conditions ripe for potential Category 6 storms in the Gulf of Mexico will grow. Now it's about 10 days a year where the environment could be right for a Category 6, but that could go up to a month if the globe heats to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That would make an Atlantic Category 6 much more likely."
SARGASSUM WEED PROBLEM
SARGASSUM WEED PROBLEM
SARGASSUM WEED PROBLEM
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Sarah Griffiths, BBC Future, 28-Jun-2023
The real story behind the Atlantic's record-breaking seaweed blobs
The world's biggest bloom of sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean is filled with plastic and bacteria that live on it – they could be the secret behind the seaweed's success.