Clean coal: the commonsense answer to Africa’s energy crisis
The problem is that we’re not there yet. Solar doesn’t work at night, the output slips in cloudy weather, and turbines stand idle when the wind doesn’t blow.
New Liberty Mutual Climate Policy: Coal Mines Owned by Liberty are Still OK
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Liberty Mutual as part of its new climate policy has pulled their support for the enormous Adani Carmichael coal project, but has decided to maintain support for a new metallurgical coal mine wholly owned by themselves, because it “provides hundreds of jobs”. Liberty Mutual pulls support for Adani over climate…
Crikey Slams Bipartisan Climate Policy Offer: “offering to deal with terrorists”
This new willingness to negotiate has upset climate hardliners, who are seeing what they thought was a chance of total victory over coal rapidly slipping from their grasp.
Coal Plant Closures During Trump-Era Surpass Those During Obama’s Last Term, Data Shows
Coal plant closures have accelerated under President Donald Trump despite the president’s 2016 presidential campaign promise to end what he called his Democratic predecessor’s war on coal, according to a report published Monday.
Study: Burning Coal Contributed to the Permo-Triassic Extinction
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to a new study, vast quantities of burning coal contributed to the Permo-Triassic Extinction, which killed 70% of all vertebrate species. Coal-burning in Siberia after volcanic eruption led to climate change 250 million years ago Date:June 16, 2020 Source: Arizona State University Summary: A team of researchers has provided…
Indigenous Coal Power Entrepreneurs Frustrated by Broken Promises and Lack of Support
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Chris Hanley; The Scott Morrison government promised millions of dollars for a feasibility study for an Australian Aboriginal initiative to build a new coal power plant in Queensland, to provide jobs and hope for their children. So far everyone has let them down. Indigenous-run firm behind Collinsville coal-fired plant…
Climate, Coal, and Covid
A 20 minute, quite comprehensive, presentation.
Guardian Climate Crisis: Coal Use is Not Falling Fast Enough
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Guardian, coal use will have to collapse in the 2020s if we are to combat the climate crisis. Carbon emissions fall as electricity producers move away from coal Global emissions down by 2% amid mild winter and reduced use of coal-fired power plants Jillian Ambrose and Simon GoodleyMon 9…
China and India rejecting renewables for coal-fired futures
By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California China and India are NOT buying into the global alarm movement. Never in human history have we seen two countries (China and India), each with over a billion people, in need of such gargantuan amounts of energy to…
Japan: Back to the Fossil Fueled Future!
Guest MJaGA! by David Middleton MjaGA = Making Japan Great Again From the Midget Oligarch Reporting On News Service (MORONS)… EconomicsJapan Goes Into Reverse on Going GreenThe country abandoned nuclear energy and is building coal plants that will spew as much CO2 as all the cars in the U.S. By Noah SmithFebruary 5, 2020 Modern…