Daily Episode 216 - The State of Drought
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What is the overall impact of the current drought on global energy and agriculture?
Hey, Corey here. We've had an influx of new listeners, and so I just want to make sure that if you are new to the podcast, you don't just jump in and start listening to these daily episodes which we've been doing. Please go back and listen to the first at least eight episodes so you have an idea of what collapse is, what it is that Corey is talking about. Also, if you've been with us for a while and you're enjoying the content, please join us on Patreon. We would love to see you there. There's a link, as always, in the description. Okay, hello, welcome back. Thanks for joining today. I had kind of laid out yesterday a bit of an introduction for the week and the different topics we were going to talk about.
Today's episode is going to be on various ways in which drought is affecting locations across the world. Look, drought is one of those weird ones that can come on very quickly, or at least can not seemingly be a problem and then suddenly be a problem. It's always talked about in the Back end, you always hear people say, Well, it's a drought, and you know, your water still turns on and the grass is still green at the nearby park, and you see the farmers still watering their crops, and you think, okay, they've been saying that we're in a drought forever. And for me in the West, that is definitely the case. It seems like two out of three years, drought as a word is being thrown around, right? And so you can get kind of desensitized.
To it and think, oh, this is just some vague thing that they say is happening, but we don't really bear any consequences of it. Well, that is not true. And climate change is making it worse, of course. This year's El Nino will make it worse going into the future. And we're experiencing in many parts of the world a very rough drought experience due to all of the heat waves creating flash droughts. And let's talk about Why. I've got several different articles here actually, so we'll spend a little bit less time in each, but we'll make sure to cover it all. So the first is an article from Euro News, which states that the EU considers emergency meeting as nuclear shutdown leaves Hungary facing energy crisis.
Hungarian PM Peter Magyar has warned of an energy crisis after record low Danube water levels. Force the shutdown of the PAX nuclear plant, which supplies nearly half the country's power. The European Commission says it is prepared to convene an emergency meeting of its electricity coordination group over the shutdown of Hungary's PAX nuclear plant, as the country's prime minister warned of a looming energy crisis. Quote: Although the operator has emergency measures in place to guarantee nuclear safety, an event of this kind could further Strain the regional electricity balance. This according to the Commission's spokesperson, Anna Kaisa Itkonin. The Commission stands ready to convene an ad hoc meeting of the Electricity Coordination Group.
The Prime Minister has warned that the country could face an energy crisis as early as next week after PACS, which supplies almost half of Hungary's energy needs, was taken offline following record low water levels in the Danube, which is used to cool the reactors. It is the first time the plant has been shut down completely since it opened 42 years ago. Quote: This means 2,000 megawatts will be lost from the Hungarian energy production from Monday at the latest, while demand for residential and public consumption continues to rise because of the heat. So let's talk about that first. Obviously, this is a double whammy of sorts. Not only is there a drought which is decreasing the level of the river,
Which is required to cool the reactors at this nuclear plant. The cause of that, which is a heating planet and climate change, is also causing the temperature itself to increase in the area. And so people are hotter. People are running AC more often, more frequently, with more intensity. So that required need for power has to come from somewhere right at the time that 2,000 megawatts of power. Power are being removed.
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