Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Energy/Archive 5

Nuclear energy, part of the problem not the solution
I have been concerned for some time that nuclear is touted as the 'clean' ie non-carbon emmitting, energy of the future to tackle climate change, but the reverse is true, all the nuclear power rleased since the atomn was first split is added to an already heating planet caused by CO2 trapping energy. Unlike fossil fuels, uranium has never been part of Earth's energy cycle, without humans causing a nuclear reaction, this energy would remain trapped forever.

It is 1950s technology, using steam power, an even older technology of the 19th century when global warming was just being started, to run turboines. It has thus added the sum total of energy released to the problem of a warming world, and cqannot be considered any part of a solution. Yet nbuclear cultists continue to claim it is thechnology for the future, that anyone who opposes it is a Luddite and doesn't understand, that nuclrear supporters are advanced and hampered by the ignorant. Actually the reverse is true, modern technology is harnessing power from wind, water, tides and sun, this technology did not exist back in the 1950s when nuclear was started principally to supply plutonium for weapons. The mind set of its fans is thus fixed in the 1950s, and no amount of raqtional argument or logic seems capable of persuading them it is not what it seems. That's why I call it a cult; based on false beliefs, mired with secrecy and misinformation, and growing every more costly so much so that nuclear builders demand a high energy cost paid by consumers to profit them into the future. So electricy bills would need to rise and rise to pay for the costs whiuch run into many billions and are revised upwards during the course of the ten years or so build time. Renrewables at the sdame time are halving in cost annually and are now the cheapest and fastest means of supplying actual clean cheap energy, something nuclear constantly claims when what it produces is worse than dirty and costs the Earth.

The only possible future is 100% actual renewables, and not those claimed as renewable which are simply not, such as geothermal, which again adds all the energy created to the already warming planet, energy which would otherwise remain deep in the planel's crust. Nuclear power pumps billions of gallons of hot water into the oceans, considered waste by the blinkered nuclear cultists and of no consequence, illustrating their total ignorance of not just the ecosystem but of energy reality.

It would be good to see Wikipedia reflect this reality and not be so encouraging and complacent about nuclear. And I haven't once mentioned nuclear disasters, of which there are hundreds but only t5he biggest are mentioned, and the continuing problem of sp-ent fuel, which has always going to be a problem for future generations to cope with, I think future generations are going to have trouble enough simply surviving the shattered world we will be leaving them. Another problem o9f nuclear never considered or mentioned is the fact of sea levelk rise and the inconvenient fact that nuclear power stations are almost always situated on coasts at sea level for access to unlimited cooling water, the energy so transferred being pumped straight into the sea. Perhaps nuclear fans can enlighten everyone on what will happen to a flooded nuclear pile?

And with Thwaites Glacier due to break off into the sea in a matter of 2-5 years, I wonder if any p[oliticians are considering how to protect, empty and clean all the existing nuclear plants before that happens. Building any more is folly of a kind not even hominids have indulged in before.

PetePassword (talk) 13:48, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
 * The heat generated by nuclear fission is utterly irrelevant to climate change. The heat created by burning coal is likewise irrelevant to climate change. It's the carbon doxide that matters. "If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal." Not sure where BS like "nuclear power stations are almost always situated on coasts at sea level" comes from when [our map] shows a majority are actually inland. Talk about "misinformation." Actually, nothing at all happens to a flooded nuclear pile. The issue at Fukushima was flooded diesel generators. Again, this is not the place for your rant that is "based on false beliefs." Reywas92Talk 16:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him &#124; talk) 16:53, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Petroleum industry in Iran
Petroleum industry in Iran has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 19:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

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Merger discussion for Renewable energy transition
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Merger discussion for Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
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FAR for Grand Coulee Dam
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Merger discussion for Hot dry rock geothermal energy
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Shale gas NPOV issues
Could someone with some subject knowledge please rewrite the lead section of shale gas? It has serious issues with NPOV and cites mainly outdated information (I also posted on its talk page). The rest of the article may need work as well, it doesn't actually explain what shale gas is or cover much science at all. Toadspike (talk) 19:23, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

WiTricity
Hello! I've submitted an edit request with a few suggested updates for the WiTricity article here. I've struggled to get editor feedback despite using Template:Request edit so I'm hoping a member of this project might be willing to take a look at the proposed updates. For what it's worth, I don't think reviewing will take long since the additions are single sentences. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 14:25, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Gulf Oil listed at Good Article Reassessment
Gulf Oil has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:51, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Outdated operations information at Kosmos Energy
Hello, I am requesting updates to Wikipedia on behalf of my employer, Kosmos Energy. My recent request on the Kosmos Energy Talk page deals with the company's operations, as Kosmos has undergone a shift in its business since the article's last major updates in 2019. Are WikiProject Energy editors interested in reviewing? TGKosmos (talk) 19:32, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

What unit should I use for oil?
Hello,

I am trying to raise Oil and gas in Turkey to good standard. The gas cites are in cubic metres so that is fine. But some of the oil cites are in barrels but others in tons. It is not clear from Barrel_(unit)#Oil_barrel whether I should use barrels, cubic metres or tons. Can you advise? Chidgk1 (talk) 09:21, 9 September 2022 (UTC)


 * , since Turkey is a European country, I'd roll with tonnage. Template:Convert/list of units has a nice list for units too, so if you want to use cubic metres will convert it into barrels. Hope this helps! X-750 List of articles that I have screwed over 08:10, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I looked into this further and found that different oils have different density https://sciencing.com/convert-metric-tons-barrels-8220711.html Presumably that is why I cannot find bbl to tonne in the convert template. As I only mention barrels twice I guess I should just do a manual conversion to tonnes with a footnote about the density. Unless this project has a different guideline Chidgk1 (talk) 06:30, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Can anyone help with electricity market?
I see @Викидим is doing a lot of great work on it. I tweak a few things occasionally but it would be great if any of you could further improve this important and very topical article on a hard to understand subject Chidgk1 (talk) 06:37, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Negawatt market
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Negawatt market&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:28, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Bernard Looney article request
Hi editors, Hello editors, I'm Arturo and I work for bp. I was hoping to get some assistance with an edit request I made on the Bernard Looney article to remove a subheading I believe violates NPOV guidelines. It seems like removing the subheading is the easiest way to resolve the issue. Please let me know if anyone here would be interested in reviewing the request. Arturo at BP (talk) 19:18, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Peak uranium
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Peak uranium&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 19:24, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

HQ Update for Schneider Electric
Hello! I'm an employee at Schneider Electric, looking to update the company article's headquarters. The infobox on the page currently says that Schneider's HQ is in Rueil-Malmaison, France. That information is slightly incorrect, as the company actually operates using a multi-hub system, where its leadership is spread over several large offices located across the globe. I explained this in further detail in an edit request on the Schneider Electric Talk page. Would anyone here be interested in taking a look at that request? I figured this would be a good place to ask, since Schneider's Talk page says the company is "of interest" to this WikiProject. Any help I could get in making this update would be much appreciated. Thank you! Rachel at Schneider Electric (talk) 05:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Most IEA content is now CC-BY-4.0
Hi everyone. Fantastic news: The International Energy Agency has released most of its content under a Wikipedia-compatible license! License terms and exceptions are here: https://www.iea.org/terms. This means we are legally allowed to copy most IEA text and charts into Wikipedia if we provide attribution using the instructions at Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 03:12, 11 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Fantastic news, indeed! I just wanted to jump in and say that I helped IEA to create a project page for their work. It is based on the project pages of a few UN agencies (such as FAO), but as IEA is not a UN agency, and they work on matters very relevant to this project, the project page is now live as a subpage to this project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy/International Energy. If you want to see what they are doing, and what graphs they have uploaded to Commons that can be of use to more Wikipedia articles, that would be the place to go to . Eric Luth (WMSE) (talk) 08:52, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Demand response
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A wind power article needs update
Wind power in South Australia has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chidgk1 (talk) 08:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Predicting the timing of peak oil
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Kosmos Energy help
Hello, I'm here on behalf of my employer, Kosmos Energy. I've been working with editors to make updates to the article and thought editors here might be interested in taking a look at my request. I don't edit the article myself because of my conflict of interest. Thank you. TGKosmos (talk) 14:03, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

FAR for uranium
I have nominated Uranium for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm Talk 18:36, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Petroleum
Hello, there is a proposal to form WikiProject Petroleum, see WikiProject Council/Proposals/Petroleum. Jerium (talk) 14:38, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Splitting proposal of Cushing, Oklahoma
See Talk:Cushing,_Oklahoma PhotographyEdits (talk) 14:52, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Electricity
Electricity has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

What climate/energy photos do you need? (Climate Visuals)
Hi everyone, Climate Visuals is working to increase the photographs available to Wikimedia Commons in their library and is seeking insights from the Wikipedia community about the climate change photos you need and would use.

(The Climate Visuals library is designed to increase the impact and engagement of climate change photography and information via their creative commons photo gallery and evidence base).

'''What are the specific climate- and energy-related topics that you need photos for? What articles or topic areas are you working on, or planning to work on, that could use more compelling photos?'''

Please do let me know below and I’ll pass the message on. Climate Visuals will use this info to collect and curate existing photos that would fill these gaps. Thanks! TatjanaBaleta (talk) 12:22, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

renaming Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline
This article needs to be renamed. It is about the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline and the twin Kirkuk-Tripoli oipeline that were constructed at the same time. Also, the Tripoli branch lasted much longer than the Haifa branch.

Suggestions:

Nowakki (talk) 06:39, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Kirkuk-Medditeranean twin oil pipeline
 * Kirkuk-Haifa-Tripoli twin oil pipeline

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:46, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Renewable energy in Costa Rica is still Start-class
This article seems to have been greatly improved 7 years ago by Ceab.ico and nobody noticed. The user's request for an assessment at Assessment is even still there. It is still Start-class, but would probably have been at least a B article. However, it's now a little out of date. Wizmut (talk) 07:00, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Ernest Rutherford
The page Ernest Rutherford has been updated to more fully include the details of his life and scientific work. The page now expands upon his educational biography, appends dates to several of his discoveries, and includes others which had previously been omitted. I have also made a handful of additional edits on miscellaneous other sections. This may (or may not) be of interest in (re-)evaluating your project's content assessment of the article. Doughbo (talk) 01:21, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Kerosene tax
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Kerosene tax that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. EggRoll97 (talk) 22:27, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Commercial fusion - your input is invited
Please see Articles for deletion/Commercial fusion - your opinions are invited. Thanks!

-- A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) 02:46, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Can you make a hookier hook?
Template:Did you know nominations/Renewable energy in Turkey Chidgk1 (talk) 06:01, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Which countries use money from renewable energy to subsidize fossil fuels?
Apart from Turkey mentioned above? I know this is not a forum but I wonder. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:09, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/AIPCC Energy - Nigerian refinery
Please see this deletion discussion for a Nigerian refinery:

Articles for deletion/AIPCC Energy (Edo Refinery)

— A. B. (talk • contribs • global count) < A. B. (talk • contribs •  global count) 16:45, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Operation Desert (German fuel project)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Operation Desert (German fuel project) that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 04:12, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Anyone know anything about Heat recovery ventilation?
Perhaps Americans know more about this than me?

The article is marked as low priority but is that right? Also I have some questions like

Talk:Heat_recovery_ventilation Chidgk1 (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Add article on Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCAS)?
Extremely important part of modern power systems only a little mention on 'Ancillary services (electric power)' article. Many grid use it as the one of the main ways to make sure supply and demand matchup. Very important and complex topic about electricity grids and power systems. Ravenman32 (talk) 01:51, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Hydrail
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hydrail that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 18:09, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

What is Peak oil in a sentence?
Don’t answer here or on a postcard. But I hope some of you might comment at Talk:Peak oil Chidgk1 (talk) 18:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Article on Vijay Nirani
I've written an article on Vijay Nirani. He's a CEO of a Bioenergy company and I've seen him in the news quite frequently especially recently. Sharing the link to the article I've written would love some feedback on it if there's any way I could write it better as it's my first time writing a Wikipedia Article. Workingisnotworking13 (talk) 09:21, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Writing a new article is one of the most difficult things to do on Wikipedia. You might like to get some practice by editing an existing article such as Renewable energy in India Chidgk1 (talk) 18:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

30 gas field articles proposed for deletion
One editor has been proposing many gas field articles for deletion over the last few days. Most, but not all, are Romanian gas fields; articles are tagged as non-notable with bad references.

Merging content into List of natural gas fields in Romania is a potential alternative to deletion.

You're invited to look at these and see what should be done. If you have refs you can add, that would be helpful.

If you agree or disagree with deletion, there are instructions on the deletion notice for what to do.

Here's the current list:
 * Romanian gas fields:




 * Non-Romanian:


 * (Indonesian)
 * (Hungarian)
 * (Mozambique)
 * (Polish)

I maintain a running list at User:A. B./Sandbox2 Thanks, -- A. B. (talk • contribs •  global count)  06:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Florida Power & Light
Hi editors, I'm Daniel and I work for Florida Power & Light. I have an edit request to update the numbers in the article infobox I was hoping someone here might look at. I asked at WikiProject Companies as well but no one has responded. I'd really appreciate it! FPL Daniel (talk) 18:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Merger discussion for 2024 Lake Suviana explosion
An article which may be of interest to members of this project&mdash;2024 Lake Suviana explosion&mdash;has been proposed for merging with Lake Suviana. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. IgnatiusofLondon IgnatiusofLondon ( he/him • ☎️) 13:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:2024 Lake Suviana explosion
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:2024 Lake Suviana explosion that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. RodRabelo7 (talk) 00:08, 22 April 2024 (UTC)