When advocating environmental solutions for the world, it really is necessary to think carefully about the real circumstances of the various people concerned.
Category: Coal
Coal’s Real Value Is Optionality
Coal is not returning from the dead. The world never stopped needing it.
The Guardian calls Climate Change Treachery on a Major Aussie Coal Mine Extension
The mine produces large volumes of bituminous thermal black coal – the kind of coal being phased out in Aussie power stations.
Energy future: Made in China by coal
…in China, 55% of power is produced by coal and the cost of household electricity is 8 cents per kWh. In the UK, coal’s percentage of electricity was 30% in…
Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion
The boy in Cabo Delgado and the girl in Rivers State are the first generation with a plausible route out of poverty their grandparents never had, and that pathway runs…
Aussie Coal Plants to Stay Operational Thanks to a “Souring” Renewable Investment Environment
Only the most committed green states are closing coal plants.
Indonesia and India Are Jointly Planning a Hydrocarbon-Powered Future
The India-Indonesia trade relationship is dismissing the apocalyptic fantasy of the climate industrial complex and committing to secure the energy sources that people need to improve their lives.
India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out
A country that the entire architecture of climate financing is supposedly built to help just declined to host the party. If climate summits worked as advertised, that would be unthinkable.…
America Is Leaving a Global Coal Opportunity on the Table
Modern export infrastructure, faster permitting, competitive tax and fee policies, and trade agreements that reflect the enormous opportunity before us could move the U.S. from an underperforming supplier to a…
Energy Security and Climate Realism Usher in Coal’s Rise
Stop pretending that every rise in renewables implies a fall in coal. Stop using extreme scenarios to frighten the public into accepting policy mandates that do not fit the needs…
Low Cost Chinese Coal Power is Driving a Decisive Advantage Over US AI Businesses
As nations increasingly embrace the 97% cost advantage of Chinese AI, the USA has this brief opportunity to seize back the initiative.
Britain: Time To Go Back to Coal
In other words, the only effect of the wind/solar generation obsession has been to drive up the cost of electricity to consumers and businesses to ridiculous levels. And, next time…
The Real Competition Behind the U.S Coal Revival
The question is not whether coal remains part of the energy system. It is how the U.S. builds the reliable, affordable and secure energy system needed to support AI, strengthen…
The Coal Conversation
Our 21st-century AI buildout cannot pause for permitting reform, and national security infrastructure cannot wait to litigate pipelines. The economic opportunity of leading the digital economy belongs to those willing…
Claim: Japan’s Coal and Nuclear Push Risks Displacing Renewable Energy
“… As coal and nuclear generation expand … they may displace domestic renewable energy …”
Cracks Appear in Climate Consensus as Germany’s Energy Minister Admits Renewable Energy is Ruining the Country
Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets. The…
Coal, The Fuel We Ignore But Cannot Replace
If you think coal is a thing of the past… then you are missing the big picture, which is far more complex and far more relevant than most headlines suggest.
Coal Needs Boots on the Ground
Over the last two decades, the coal industry has ceded much of the battlefield to its opponents and even now seems somewhat complacent about its future. The Trump Administration will…
India Builds a Fossil Future One Coal Plant at a Time
The “Fossil Future” is being built by India one coal plant at a time, along with myriad contracts for oil and natural gas development.
Aussie Coal Closure Delayed, to Lower Prices and Stabilise the Grid
I know you will all be surprised as I am that $10s of billions spend on renewables has failed to produce a viable replacement for a single coal plant.