tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post5008939108227620526..comments2024-03-26T00:37:34.943+01:00Comments on Venezuela News And Views: Latin America wakes me upDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128609182544333477noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-4436680905606141172019-11-04T16:35:54.994+01:002019-11-04T16:35:54.994+01:00Daniel, real nice to hear from you.
Interesting a...Daniel, real nice to hear from you.<br /><br />Interesting article on Chile: <br />https://www.city-journal.org/chile-demonstrations<br /><br /><br />Charlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01145328603062740131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-57996098070631324902019-11-04T00:11:46.988+01:002019-11-04T00:11:46.988+01:00Good to hear from you @Daniel. Guess times are not...Good to hear from you @Daniel. Guess times are not so good for you. Still in Spain? All the best from GermanyHanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801560752362027238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4080946.post-89858379003818319222019-10-31T01:36:09.256+01:002019-10-31T01:36:09.256+01:00I am just going to say that Chile always had a str...<b>I am just going to say that Chile always had a strong and radicalized communist party, always on the watch for such an opportunity.The opportunity came, they did not waste it. The end result may be held in the hands of the democratic (?) socialists who are afraid to condemen the excesses and give a hand to Piñera to bring peace again.</b><br /><br />Via Instapundit,<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y5ksghal" rel="nofollow">Expensive Climate Policies Sparked Chile Riots, Just Like France’s Yellow Vest Protests,</a> <br /><br />The article informs us that the protests are due to increased Metro prices and also a carbon tax. Oil prices have been steady to declining- as Venezuelans know.<br /><br />The above article has a link to what's been going on with increased Metro prices.<a href="http://wwwww.climateaction.org/news/chiles-largest-metro-network-to-be-powered-by-solar-and-wind" rel="nofollow">Chile’s largest metro network to be powered by solar and wind. (21 June 2017.</a> <br /><i>Next year, Latin America’s second largest subway system, will source 60 per cent of its energy from solar and wind projects.<br />In a statement Metro de Santiago said that it had signed two 15-year agreements, one with a solar energy provider, and another with a wind power company.<br />According to The Wall Street Journal, California-based SunPower’s will supply 42 per cent of the subway system’s power with a 100-megawatt (MW) solar plant using 254,000 panels covering an area the size of 370 football fields, located in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.<br />The remaining 18 per cent will be provided by a recently developed wind farm located just north of the SunPower solar project, The Wall Street Journal said.</i><br />The decision to purchase wind and solar energy was made in 2017, during the Bachelet administration. IOW, Piñera is getting blowback from a decision that was made before he again took the Presidential chair in 2018.I don't know who made that decision at Santiago Metro, though I would suspect this decision was made with at least the support of the Bachelet administration.<br /><br />A quick look at the numbers tells me the following. Wind energy is fairly competitive in TX, where it provides about 15% of electricity generated. So, offhand I have no problem with the 18% wind energy figure. I would point out that the wind energy is coming from northern Chile, while the strongest winds in Chile are in the South. Rounding Cape Horn and all that, and I imagine winds are still strong on the southern mainland part of Chile. <br /><br />Solar electric is another matter. As it is a very diffuse energy source, it is going to be more expensive. Which is why Metro prices jumped. That was a rather expensive decision. I wonder if a hydro project in the South-which has a LOT of rain, would work, or if all hydro sources are maxed out.<br /><br />I would think that you could get wind energy in greater, less expensive quantities from the South instead of the North of Chile. the intermittent nature would have to be factored in.<br /><br />Time to get a Venezuelan or Argentine <i>vivo</i> in there to annul the 15 year old contracts. <br />Boludo Tejanonoreply@blogger.com