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I'm catching up with Thursdays Times since someone nicked it at the library
"There is a slight snag. Green bonds are good news for the City, but for the environment?
Not so much. They share flaws seen in many financial innovations: they are complex, expensive and not very effective. Worse, the hype risks damaging the broader green finance effort."
They say corps just use them for current non-risky projects
Doesn't see paywalledhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2019-10-25/business/green-bonds-are-not-the-panacea-their-supporters-claim-and-they-know-it-vfwgfwtr8
stewgreen
Ontario, Canada ..what's happening with their leccy prices now ?
This article from 3 years ago was a good proof in the pudding
about how the Ontario govt went for the greendream
and promised leccy prices wouldn't rise
but they actually doubled
The govt tried to claim they had saved billion in coal health care costs
but theat stat doesn't stack up
https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/boondoggle-how-ontarios-pursuit-of-renewable-energy-broke-the-provinces-electricity-system
stewgreen
New Mexico's tuition-free college plan would be among the most progressive in the country. But student activists say it relies too much on money from oil. https://nbcnews.to/32RR9Wz
Yup... some people obviously want Smart Meters... I can see a way to help those wishing for 100% renewable electricity... here's hoping The Guardian are early adopters.
tomo
I wouldn't swap an 'easy' job for a 'hard' one at any point. They 'easy' ones are boring, genuinely dirty, low status, thankless and poorly paid. That doesn't mean I won't skive off from the 'hard' stuff to do something entertaining from time to time. The pay allows for both.
Low skilled jobs used to have a simplicity to them but now they're riddled with rules and paperwork.
TinyCO2
Wales I've seen the idea of gas fields there being used for storage
It was probably in stories a few weeks back
"WelshGovernment
pledge to procure 100% of Wales' electricity from renewable sources each year, "
stewgreen
On average women are probably more sensible than men
Choosing to do easier jobs might be part of this
stewgreen
ianl, most kids of all varieties simply prefer *NOT* - they simply prefer pizzing about to factz. Poor white and black young men do so badly because they are allowed to mess about. Society has given up on them and their parents have done the same. Society tells girls that science is dirty and boring and boy stuff. The messages are woven into TV, advertising, toys and even teaching. The kids who do well in school, especially in the hard subjects are those who are pushed by their parents or tachers but most of all both. See mid to far eastern kids. Medicine and other 'caring' sciences are now acceptable for girls to aspire to but STEM will follow.
Society as a whole tends to deride smart kids. Nerds, geeks, etc. This is encouraged by arts graduates in TV of both sexes. All kids are being pushed to worry more about the feelz than the facts. I remember seeing the BBC breakfast team plus a group of guests laughing at internet geeks. I thought of how horrified they'd be if someone admitted that they'd never read a Shakespeare play or Dickens but that they were fine with smugly admitting that they were strangers to technology. And most of them were men.
TinyCO2
tinyCO2
>" One of things that has held women back is the general belief that they can't do the hard subjects ..."
No, I don't think so. Most women simply prefer *NOT* - they simply prefer feelz to factz. Note that of those women who choose science disciplines, about 90% choose the various strands of medicine (doctors, labs, nurses and so on), where the science needed is strong enough and feelz is an important factor.
ianl
Mark. I think you may have got the wrong end of the stick. The discussion is about the use that might be made of DEPLETED oil and gas fields. These, using techniques already employed in the North Sea, can be used to store natural gas or accept waste gas (mostly CO2). But the Welsh fields are small and not particularly well sited to be of much use - unless sponsored for national (false) pride (or something for the South Wales geoscientists to do and get funding for).
AK
@Tiny @Tomo someone said that Wolf's book was getting pulped
but the Times editorial wrote
"why does Virago intend to proceed with the paperback version of what is obviously a flawed enterprise?"