Category Archives: Energy, Clean and Green Electricity

Is the UN neutral in New York City? The UN flag was stained in blood in 1950; When will the UN GA vote to shift the UN HQ from NYC to Geneva? Is the veto vote in the UN Security Council a democratic practice at the UN? Who gave the veto power to the UN SC Council, when and why?

Posted on September 3, 2022 by tankoktim

========= . Is the UN neutral? Is the veto vote a UN democratic practice? ====== . What is the ultimate aim in the US’s China Task Force Report? Please google for it. It is not for peace. It is for … Continue reading →

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Singapore’s green industry by 2050 – decarbonisation of the economy? N-Power, hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, hydrogen, etc; the competition and protectionism: Carbon Emission; Carbon tax; Renewable Clean and Green energy needs huge electricity storage capacity for optimum use during peak demand period; Go for 100% Solar Power and Wind Power: why red dot has to wait till 2050 to end use of LNG? Be green financial hubs; Rising tides; S$100b for sea walls;

Posted on January 14, 2021 by tankoktim

================= . Mankind’s future is at stake at COP28, and Minister Grace Fu will represent Singapore at the Conference. I hope Minister Fu will ask at the Conference: What will go very wrong if, if all countries were to become … Continue reading →

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China’s development – 35 years cycle – by 2035 and 2070? After 1949, 1984, and 2019, and COVID-19 Pandemic in 2019; What will the world be like in 2054, in 35 years cycle? China’s fruition after three cycles of 35 years [from 1949 to 2054: 35 years x 3]? This is the 21st Holy century; Some people want Rights without responsibilities in big cities; China’s Tang Ping trend, or lying down flat; China youths have joined calls to get out of the gruelling rat race; Life in the dark ages 1822, 1922, and in 2022; 100 years later, we will become primitive to those living in 2122;

Posted on December 31, 2018 by tankoktim

================= . Will the China HSR rail to Laos reach Bangkok soon, and link on to the port on the west coast of Thailand for access into the Indian Ocean and by-passing the Malacca Straits?   ======   China has two port … Continue reading →

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UN COP28 in Dubai, UAE; UN COP27 in Cairo 2022 – ended with nothing concrete; UN COP26 in Glasgow; UN COP began from 1992, some 29 years; Another 29 years? [2021 to 2050]; Singapore’s National Statement by Minister Grace Fu at #COP26 on 9th Nov 2021; Climate Crisis; Rising sea levels; Global overheating…not global warming… Solutions? How to limit to a 1.5deg C increase..have a Green Recovery? No environment, no nature, more diseases, there will be no life on earth; Pollution destroys environment and nature; means mankind going further away from nature; Start teaching it in school? The UN should act now, not in 2030 or 2050;

Posted on August 29, 2018 by tankoktim

===================== . Renewable energy – solutions? Modify the Turkish roadside vertical wind turbine and install it as a horizontal model on high-rise roof tops to generate electricity. Research into magnetic non-friction wind turbine to spin even when the wind force … Continue reading →

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COL – CDC vouchers and rising cost of living – Govt special Assurance Package S$800 payment to each adult in Dec 2023 with fewer criterion; The Govt has listened; S$500 in Dec 2022, and S$200 Assurance Package; CDC voucher of S$300 per family on 3Jan2023; how to keep hawkers’ costs down? Inflation – Singapore paid S$8 billion more for LNG import in 2022; Rising COL – we have PWM, WIS, MW and LQS; Reduce COL or reduce income gap with MW? MW will drive COL up, not down; WIS and PWM are far superior than MW; Factors that caused COL to rise – cost of state land accounting; public housing; COE; cost of utilities; basic food and daily necessities; transport, medical costs, etc;

Posted on August 14, 2018 by tankoktim

============== . Assurance Package: 2 million Singaporeans to receive Seniors’ Bonus and MediSave cash payouts in February 2024 The payments are part of the suite of Assurance Package measures previously announced in Singapore’s Budget 2022. Timothy Kang ·Finance Producer Updated … Continue reading →

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22 recommendations for the UN – submitted to the Global Challenges Foundation in Sept 2017; United Nations should set up a UN Environment Council to transform and reform the 21st century and beyond; No environment, there will be no nature, more diseases, and no life on earth; Environment is the main – to reverse it first, and make all the other UN missions become secondary; US$10b UN Green Climate Fund – what is the purpose?

Posted on May 4, 2018 by tankoktim

============== . “22 Recommendations that will transform the UN and the World” Is the UN neutral in NYC?  America did block many heads of states from visiting the UN in NYC.  Is the UN practising democracy by having the veto … Continue reading →

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Mega Cities on flat land — no hydro or wind power, and inadequate land space for huge solar power farms [and those in temperate countries having four seasons, no solar power all year round]; What are the possible solutions for all mega cities [the big carbon polluters] becoming 100% users of renewable clean and green electricity ending use of fossil oil, coal and LNG?

Posted on February 23, 2018 by tankoktim

================== . Many solutions to generate renewable clean and green electricity. ========== ==== . Build a 10-storey structure [steel or concrete] and have a test run to pump water to the top, and have it retained on each floor and … Continue reading →

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EVs & Singapore Green Plan by 2030; Importing LNG – We paid S$8b more in 2022 due to the war; Net-zero emission by 2050; Burning 1% coal and 99% LNG till 2050; S$100b to build seawalls to keep rising sea levels out; Polder project at Pulau Tekong; Funding climate change by long-term loans; Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Singapore; costs of electric charging points; No environment, no nature, more diseases, no life; To protect and love nature at all cost? Protect all life;

Posted on June 10, 2017 by tankoktim

=========== . Solar panels… it is a drop in the ocean. Mega cities are the major carbon emission polluters, and on flat ground, it will not have land for hydro and wind power, or large land space for solar powers … Continue reading →

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SG100 – What should Singapore focus on? Water and Electricity are threats to Red Dot’s economic wellbeing; When will we have surplus electricity and desalinated water? Should we compare Singapore with Germany or Scandinavian countries?

Posted on April 19, 2017 by tankoktim

================ . Now we have awakened that water is not the only threat but energy too. Solar power in red dot will not be enough to replace LNG to generate electricity that we need. Never. We have to seek solar, … Continue reading →

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UN Security Council’s last resolution in 2016; When will UN have the resolve to change the UN, and rid it of selfish power plays? Time for UN 2.0? Greed for oil and LNG in the Middle East – the cause of conflicts; Is the UN lame? UN’s 17 Sustainable goals – does the UN GA know that placing the cart before the horse is not the solution?

Posted on January 5, 2017 by tankoktim

======= . Is the UN GA lame? 22.5m refugees and the numbers are growing. Does the UN know the causes, and what is placing the cart before the horse? Does the UN GA know how to reverse it? Who are … Continue reading →

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South China Sea tensions; Asean-China Relationship; What should China do to reduce the tensions in the SCS? Is China in SCS for naval strategic reasons, freedom of navigation; or for the fossil oil and LNG below the seabed and other marine life and resources? A joint Indonesia-US project: a newly formed Indonesia’s maritime centre in Batam;

Posted on December 27, 2016 by tankoktim

====== The Straits Times’ Editorial says A dangerous tangle in South China Sea UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO on 3rd Oct 2023 in Straits Times. As though there were not enough dangerous tangles involving China around the Asian continent, a fresh … Continue reading →

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Solar cannot replace LNG 100% in Singapore; Singapore uses 1% coal and 99% LNG, and will not stop until 2050; What other clean sources? Singapore should support push for greener energy at UN; import green and clean energy from neighbouring countries; lease uninhabited islands for JV solar and wind farms;

Posted on June 22, 2016 by tankoktim

======= . All about money.We are not prepared to easily give up our oil refining sector. ======= Have JV solar and wind power farms on uninhabited islands in Asean. How mega cities on flat ground, no wind or hydro power, … Continue reading →

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Red Dot’s four ways to generate clean and green energy; Solar Power not effective 24/7, day and night; Will it be cost effective? Solar power alone will not be able to replace LNG to generate the electricity that we need; Solar panels above MRT tracks, MRT and bus depots, and expressways; solar roads, create landspace above expressways, etc? Possible?

Posted on February 10, 2016 by tankoktim

========== . Only four? Is there a fifth…and more? Please don’t stop at four. What else? Solutions? ======== Forum: Singapore looking at ‘four switches’ during energy transition PUBLISHED6 HOURS AGO on 8th Sept 2021 in ST Forum. We refer to … Continue reading →

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An innovative economy; Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement signed; Economy without the oil and gas sectors; To re-look at Singapore’s dependence on fossil oil and LNG; To remain competitive when more countries become 100% users of clean and green energy; 11 countries going for renewable green energy; Will more follow from now to 2031? Import clean and green energy from neighbouring countries [have JV solar and wind power projects on their uninhabited islands?] and what are the investments’ SWOTs?

Posted on January 18, 2016 by tankoktim

========== . Singapore and Australia to look at new strategic areas of cooperation: PM Lee AFP Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (right) shakes hands with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (left) during their meeting at Parliament House in Canberra … Continue reading →

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Water Desalination..How cheap can it be? 4th desalination plant; supplying treated water – first-year price of $1.07867 per cubic m to the PUB; Low-cost solar-powered desalination;

Posted on January 16, 2016 by tankoktim

=========== . Drinkable water extracted with solar-powered desalination system By E&T editorial staff Published Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in eandt.thelet.org A low-cost, highly efficient desalination system that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater has been developed by a … Continue reading →

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Car-Lite; Electric Vehicles….Tesla’s EVs coming; Hydrogen-cell cars; Have CBD Car-Free Days; Electric buses; flying cars and drones? Hyundai Motor’s factory to manufacture EVs opened on 21st Nov 2023; Next, will Singapore research into and manufacture the super chips of the future for EVs? EV electric charging points, it is all about money; Have horizontal turbine fans to charge batteries in EVs.

Posted on January 5, 2016 by tankoktim

.   =============   . New Hyundai facility in Jurong to research and build EVs – and possibly flying cars Derryn WongPublished Tue, Nov 21, 2023 · 3:00 pm in businesstimes.com.sg In the future, Hyundai’s Singapore factory could even produce … Continue reading →

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Terrorism, how will it end? Threat of terrorism in South East Asia; Middle East as is; The selfish greed for fossil oil and LNG; Petrol dollars fuel terrorism and lubricate it; Is world peace possible, free of terrorism and extremism? Where self radicalisation and terrorism stem from? Using terrorism to force religious beliefs and compliance on others;

Posted on December 18, 2015 by tankoktim

. ====== . What is the missing link?What is the solution?Talk and prayer alone will not be enough if the missing link is not fixed first. .========= . Countering the threat of Islamist extremism in South-east Asia Terrorist activities persist … Continue reading →

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No Russian LNG supplies to warm up Europe’s bitter cold this winter 2022? Many will die in the cold; UN should lead the fight against global warming; Global ceasefire will not end disease; End environmental degradation first, guns can cease firing later, not before;

Posted on December 4, 2015 by tankoktim

======================== . Will Europe install the Turkish-designed roadside wind turbines alongside the streets, train tracks, and highways [even on high rise roof tops] to generate electricity to power the heaters to save many homeless from dying in the winter cold … Continue reading →

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Climate change alert; UN should lead research on clean energy, and potable water source; Save our oceans and our future; Use the UN US$10b Green Climate Fund in research projects for the sake of all mankind;

Posted on December 3, 2015 by tankoktim

===== . Is the UN lame on this? What is missing to end the use of fossil oil now, not in 2030, 2050 or 2070? When mega cities on flat ground become 100% users of clean and green electricity now, … Continue reading →

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The Paris Agreement; Paris Climate Change Conference – 30 Nov to 11 Dec 2015; UN COP26 Conference on 1st Nov 2021 in Glasgow; 27th in Cairo, no significant progress; We wait for 28th in Dubai end 2023;

Posted on November 12, 2015 by tankoktim

============ . Not by size of country and population please. What will happen to humankind and the world when all mega cities become 100% users of clean and green electricity? All modern equipment use electricity. When will China encourage the … Continue reading →

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