Climate Letter #519

People who live in extreme dryland areas are becoming climate refugees.  This is happening now, with China one of the regions most affected.  Here is a close-up view of the tragic experience in one location.  It provides a real-life example of what can follow from the story in yesterday’s Climate Letter projecting future trends of aridity growth caused by steadily rising temperatures.

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How China is indeed facing up to the need to cut coal consumption.  It is highly disruptive to all those who are engaged in production, but there is no way to avoid paying that kind of price for a worthwhile objective.
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A microgrid revolution may be on the way.  Story by Fred Pearce.  For the 1.3 billion people who live in poverty and have no access to electricity microgrids are believed to have many advantages over usually inadequate rooftop solar projects.  The grids are being successfully introduced by entrepreneurs in Kenya and elsewhere.  “….if smart microgrids take hold at the pace their proponents hope, the change to rural economies and lifestyles in Kenya and elsewhere in the developing world could be massive and permanent.”
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A proposal to supply the UK with electricity from Iceland.  Now in the stage of advanced study, apparently seen as feasible.  Users would benefit from low prices, and the source of energy is very clean.
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Important battery research at Berkeley Lab.  Discoveries may pave the way to creating a new type of lithium based battery that would double the capacity of those now in use.  If viable it would “transform the market for electric vehicles.”
Carl

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