Category Archives: Coal

Lords a leapin

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Guest post by Mike Jonas From the UK’s BBC comes this news item: Trillion-euro shortfall facing EU energy sector – Lords Committee Under the obligatory photo of chimneys spewing steam, is a totally uncritical article on the final report from … Continue reading →

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Germany To Open Six More Coal Power Stations In 2013

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

By Paul Homewood RWE’s new lignite power station opened in Neurath in 2012 Germany’s dash for coal continues apace. Following on the opening of two new coal power stations in 2012, six more are due to open this year, with … Continue reading →

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Pacific Export Terminals: The Raging Environmental War on Coal

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Originally published in The Washington Times. Guest post by Steve Goreham Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file … Continue reading →

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Now what is ‘death train’ Hansen going to do? Clean coal process developed to extract energy without burning or CO2

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

From James Hansen’s, Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s worst nightmare department, comes this uplifting science story from the Ohio State University. Basically they found a way to oxidize coal and extract energy without releasing any CO2. When a team of … Continue reading →

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Life After Energy: What if fossil fuels disappeared tomorrow?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

There is an anti-human TV program on the History Channel called Life After People, which portrays the aftermath of the imaginary scenario where all people on Earth suddenly vanished in a rapture-like event tomorrow. I’ve often seen it flipping channels, … Continue reading →

Posted in Coal, Energy, geothermal energy, natural gas, nuclear power, petroleum, solar power, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , | 216 Comments

The disparity of carbon dioxide emissions vividly illustrated by competing news stories

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

I noted this juxtaposing today, and thought I would share it. First this story from Reuters today: EU capped emissions fall below expectations * Carbon prices drop to record low * Power sector down 3.1 pct, others off by 0.5 … Continue reading →

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Newsbytes – Europe’s Golden Age Of Coal & The Folly of Green Energy Policy

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Coal has been displacing gas generation in Europe since 2009 and the International Energy Agency expects this trend to continue, Ms Anne Sophie Corbeau, senior gas analyst for the International Energy Agency said … Continue reading →

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Cool clean coal – just add refrigeration

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

From the University of Oregon a wacky idea to refrigerate smokestacks. Cooled coal emissions would clean air and lower health and climate-change costs EUGENE, Ore. — (Aug. 27, 2012) — Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that … Continue reading →

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The “Toxic Twenty”: Keeping America’s Lights On

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is out with their latest “Toxic Twenty” list… The NRDC’s report is standard green claptrap. Kentucky led the Toxic Twenty, “emitting nearly 40.6 million pounds of harmful chemicals” in … Continue reading →

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Hansen’s Death Trains – now with extra scary ‘coal fallout’

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

WUWT readers surely remember this: NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts: “The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are … Continue reading →

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Another boost for shale gas – less impact than coal

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

From the AGU Journal Highlights: Replacing coal with natural gas would reduce warming A debate has raged in the past couple of years as to whether natural gas is better or worse overall than coal and oil from a global … Continue reading →

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USA CO2 emissions may drop to 1990 levels this year

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

I graphed the EIA data, shown below. What is most interesting is that this is market driven, not mandate driven. Amazing Shale: US CO2 Emissions Plummet Towards 1990 Levels by John Hanger (via The GWPF) America’s carbon emissions may drop … Continue reading →

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Sierra Club hires EPA official who wanted to ‘crucify’ EPA lawbreakers

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

The Hill reports: A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who resigned earlier this year for comparing his work to crucifixion has found new employment with a leading green group. The Sierra Club on Friday announced that Al Armendariz would … Continue reading →

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More climate idiocy from California

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

If the looming spectre of rising electricity prices due to CARB’s upcoming “cap and trade” isn’t enough, now the Department of Water resources has opted to be less efficient by giving low cost electricity the boot. Somebody else will buy … Continue reading →

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130 mph biocoal steam engines – another high speed rail boondoggle?

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

My grandfather made steam engines, my father made a scale steam locomotive for taking children on rides in the park and at the fair. Some of my happiest memories as a child were of sitting behind my father in the … Continue reading →

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Facepalm! Gore’s “dirty energy = dirty weather” claims about the US are laughable in the context of other countries

Posted on May 26, 2012 by

Al Gore, is his usual incompetent persona, is bloviating weapons grade nonsense again. A few prior examples: On TV, Earth’s core is millions of degrees, in AIT, snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro will gone due to global warming, except the snows … Continue reading →

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Newsbytes: Germany Faces Green Energy Crisis

Posted on May 12, 2012 by

From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Network Agency Calls For Suspension Of Emission Laws For Old Coal Plants Last winter, on several occasions, Germany escaped only just large-scale power outages. Next winter the risk of large blackouts is even … Continue reading →

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If Obama is going to kill coal, he has to hide the body

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls The graphics were changed in the last two days, but Conn Carroll at the Washington Examiner took a screenshot of Obama’s “All of the Above” energy policy page on Tuesday. “Notice anything missing?” he asks: … Continue reading →

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