GREAT ARTICLE “Because of our dependence on fossil fuels, we’ve set up the economy to fail if we don’t change it,” Susana Muhamad, the environment minister, said. “We haven’t made a major new oil discovery in years. Besides that, you cannot ignore climate change. That is the whole point.”
The government, which has been in power for only three months, has asked for six more months to come up with the particulars of its energy transition. The big question is: What will replace Colombia’s oil revenue?
The concern is mostly economic, as Colombia already generates nearly 80 percent of its energy from renewable sources — mainly hydropower.
The country’s business elite, many of whom are invested in the oil industry, are watching as Colombia’s already weak currency dips further, reacting to Mr. Petro’s policy proposals, soaring energy prices and global inflation.
“We have to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, yes, but imagine choosing this very moment to do it,” said scar Ivn Zuluaga, Colombia’s long-serving finance minister, now a businessman in steel-making, an industry that contributes between 7 and 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally. “Petro has to take reality into account, not just ideology. That is the basis of governance.”
Ms. Muhamad, 45, once worked for Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, as an environmental and human rights risk consultant. She grew disillusioned when she realized her self-described “ecotopian” vision of helping Shell transition to energy sources beyond oil and gas was unlikely.
She and her colleague, the energy and mining minister Irene Vlez, 40, both spent much of the last couple of decades working with marginalized communities.
The two ministers see their proposed energy transition as a “gran giro,” or a great turn, that would gradually eliminate oil and coal and reorient Colombia’s export economy around ecotourism and producing foodstuffs like grain and avocados.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/climate/colombia-climate-latin-america.html
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Superb article.
While reading, i could really feel the emotional weight Colombia's
Government is undergoing.
I would think,
transitioning with a viable energy subsitute, would work,
if balanced with a comparable energy, which replaces their
fossil revenues.
Could copper salt fuels be Colombia's answer they so seek ? How would Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environmental minister
respond if shown, copper salt fuels ? Maybe Anglo Asain should wet their feet in, green energies ?
Run this by, Susana ?
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ON DEMAND HYDROGEN Easy fuel station adoption
Same pump style
No new infastructure
Consumer friendly - unlike ev charge stations.
Facilitates mass hydrogen fuel rollout.
Copper Hydroxide ( salts ) aqueous.
Copper salts are not readily avail to consumer
Keeps fuel tech in, refiners control
Same style of petro fuel chain distribution
Simple copper solution
pumped up from storage tank below grade.
Electrolyzer converts solution to hydrogen
No nozzel freezing to vehicle gas neck.
Nozzel, specifically keyed to only accept hydrogen from
fuel fuel stations. Deters, wrong mixtures entering vehicle.
No nozzel freeze. Wink. Way better set up.
Electrolyzers, once copper oxides accumilate in chamber
Swap out for replacement Electrolyzer.
Residue copper oxides are recaptured reprocessed
into new - copper salt fuels.
Electrolyzer cleaned.
Ready for next swap out.
As one can see, the advantages are enormous.
Would accommodate a far quicker green energy
rollout than, billion dollar battery plants, which appear
are having a 3 metal sourcing problem.
lithium, cobalt, nickel.
3 headaches.
Versus, simple copper salt fuel.
My guess is,
if an on demand hydrogen copper fuel was rolled out,
the car manufacturers who were onboard, would
LEAD the PACT.
First movers, win.
