Guest post by David Middleton From Inverse via Real Clear Energy: The Answer to What’s Actually Killing Coal is Hopeful and Depressing The real cause of the decline of coal is the free market. By Dyani Sabin on June 20, 2017 Filed Under Answers, Donald Trump, Jobs, R&B & Solar Energy As has been reported…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Awareness is slowly permeating through the media that renewables inevitably lead to higher electricity prices – and that the Australian energy grid is in deep trouble. But this awareness is too little, too late, to save what is left of what was once one of the cheapest electricity grids in…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn has just re-opened the US Government’s war on coal. Gary Cohn Relaunches War on Coal: Fuel from America’s Heartland ‘Doesn’t Make Much Sense Anymore’ White House National Economic Council director Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs banking executive, has…
Guest post by David Middleton THE 240MWE FACILITY IS THE LARGEST POST-COMBUSTION CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT IN THE WORLD WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark the opening of Petra Nova, the world’s largest post-combustion carbon capture project, which was completed on-schedule and on-budget. The large-scale…
Coal’s Unexpected Ally: Natural Gas Guest post by David Middleton I concluded my previous coal post, The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry, with the following: The U.S. coal industry is doing exactly what the oil & gas industry did from 2014-2016. In the face of oversupply relative to demand and a collapsing commodity price, the…
Guest post by David Middleton America’s Biggest Coal Miner Is Joining the Comeback Under Trump by Tim Loh April 3, 2017, 4:28 PM CDT April 4, 2017, 1:14 PM CDT Peabody is following rival Arch Coal out of bankruptcy The coal miner has for decades served as industry’s bellwether Peabody Energy Corp., America’s largest coal…
I note much discussion around a recent WUWT post entitled “China: USA is “Selfish” for Wanting to Burn Coal“. It featured the Chinese telling us that we are “selfish” to burn coal and that we should reduce our coal use, because carbon. Now, in the way of conflicts of interests, I should disclose that I…
