The climate summit in Glasgow: many words, no actions

The Glasgow Climate Summit has come to an end. The result obtained is minimal. The chairman even apologized for the poor results. It didn't surprise me. Politicians do not have a long-term vision. Calling out, with Frans Timmermans in the lead, which objectives must be achieved in 2050. But no vision of how to achieve this goal.

In the Netherlands, our politicians are calling for solar panels and windmills. Bakken subsidies are given for this without any result. The result: our power grid has literally had a heart attack and can no longer receive the generated power. Nevertheless, politicians continue to say that we should start driving electrically. 

Managing the construction of nuclear power plants
In Glasgow, the final verdict should have been: a target on how the climate agreement can actually be achieved. For the Netherlands, for example, this could be the following. Given the limited land area, windmills and solar panels are not an option, especially because the energy cannot be stored. Putting our tax money on clean Thorium nuclear power plants is therefore the motto.

The construction time of such power stations is 20 years. So if we start now, the first power stations will be ready in 2040. In the TV program Atlas, a scientist explained exactly how such a power station works. Even the stored radioactive materials from nuclear power plants can for the most part be broken down in a Thorium plant.

Generating hydrogen around the equator
As an interim solution in a politically stable country around the equator, where the sun shines much more than with us, generating electricity via mirrors and converting it into hydrogen. In the Netherlands, you can distribute this hydrogen across the country via the existing gas network. After all, has anyone in politics considered that if we go fully electric, our electricity grid will have to supply 10 times as much power? Where do we get all that copper or aluminum to make such heavy power cables? There are already major shortages.

So until we can easily store the electricity, we will focus on green hydrogen. Hydrogen costs twice as much electricity, but it is easy to store and we have our guest network, or the distribution network to distribute it. First prepare our electricity grid for the future and only then switch to electric. Only in that way will it succeed. I am now giving these points, but there are probably even more possibilities to achieve our climate goal. However, we now need to have a plan on how to achieve the targets by 2.

Learn Chinese and Russian better
Without a plan, the objectives for 2050 will certainly not be achieved. The Netherlands is now almost entirely in the hands of Russia for its energy supply. For our products, owned by China. The only thing that the Netherlands still has - in part - in its hands is our food. And the left-wing parties and environmental organizations also want that gone. This can't be true.

Luckily I'm 67 years old, so my time is running out, but my grandchildren are better off learning Chinese and Russian at school rather than English, German and French. Then they can later beg from China and Russia if they can get a few more products, food and/or energy. Terrible.

Jaap Major
Low Zuthem

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