Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – South Australia and the Australian State of Victoria learned the hard way that when power demand surges, you can’t turn up the…
Category: Coal
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry: “Is coal the new gold?”
Guest post by David Middleton Is coal the new gold? A Pennsylvania senate candidate thinks so By John Moody | Fox News “There’s coal in them thar hills.” If that…
2018 U.S. Deep Freeze: Largest Weekly Draw on Natural Gas Storage… Evah!
Guest post by David Middleton Well… It’s the largest draw “on record”… Since 2010… Glossary Mcf : Thousand cubic feet ~ 1 million btu (mmbtu) Bcf : Billion cubic feet…
Australian East Coast Narrowly Avoids a Widespread Blackout – Thanks to Coal
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Australia’s policy of shuttering of dispatchable power sources in favour of unreliables finally appears to be biting into the stability of the Australian electricity grid.…
CO2-Consuming Fossil Fuel Combustion
Guest post by David Middleton “The CDCL process is the most advanced and cost-effective approach to carbon capture we have reviewed to date and are committed to supporting its commercial…
China’s Great Climate Joke: Switching to Gas, Made from Coal
Greens who celebrated China’s switch to gas are now worried the plans seem to be in disarray, as rushed conversions trigger a gas supply crisis. But behind the scenes, China…
BHP Breaks with the World Coal Association over Climate Change
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – BHP, which last year derived 19% of its revenue from coal (p161, BHP annual report), has demanded industry bodies in which it…
Claim: China CAN Lead on Climate, if they Cut Back on Coal Investment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Greens are starting to comment that China’s climate “leadership” seems to involve enormous investments in coal. But history suggests there is a solution to China’s…
Paris Agreement Architect Calls the End of Coal – in the Middle of a Coal Rush
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Former UNFCCC secretary Christiana Figueres, architect of the Paris Agreement, has called Australia’s planned giant new coal mine a “Kodak moment”, a doomed investment in…
Climate Hypocrite President Macron Sucking Coal Power from Britain
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Guardian, a temporary shortage of nuclear power in France forced France to buy substantial amounts of “dirty” coal power from Britain –…
Another Win-Win! “Climate talks open amid anger over Trump’s coal support”
Guest taunting post by David Middleton Win: President Trump announced US withdrawal from Paris climate treaty agreement joke. Win: US will use its remaining 3 years as a party to the joke…
Coal Demand and Prices Surge… As Do U.S. Coal Exports!
Guest post by David Middleton Coal prices are on the rise again. With benchmark rates in Australia up over 30 percent since July — approaching the $100/t mark that prevailed…
Hillary Clinton: Threatening Coal Jobs was a Mistake
Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to her book “What happened”, Hillary Clinton’s biggest regret was joking about putting coal miners out of business because climate. Hillary Clinton: Here’s the…
Top Electric Grid Regulator Will Make Keeping Coal Plants Online One Of His Main Goals
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 3:06 PM 08/14/2017 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Neil Chatterjee said he would look for ways to “properly compensate” coal plants for…
'Coal plants keep closing on Trump's watch'… And why it doesn't matter to the Resurgence of the American Coal Industry!
Guest post by David Middleton Over the past 10 months or so, articles like this have been a “dime-a-dozen”… ENERGY TRANSITIONS Coal plants keep closing on Trump’s watch Benjamin Storrow,…
Coal is #1… again.
Guest post by David Middleton Politics and Energy Coal Is Number One STEPHEN MOORE July 28, 2017, 12:05 am Before Donald Trump came along, it was left for dead. Quick:…
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry. Part Trois: Going Dutch!
Guest post by David Middleton If President Obama was the “war on coal,” President Trump might just be the post-war “Marshall Plan”… U.S. Coal Finds Footing In European Markets By…
Forget Paris: 1600 New Coal Power Plants Built Around The World
From the NYT 1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries. When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year,…
"The Answer to What's Actually Killing Coal" Is "Not Even Wrong"
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…
Daily Telegraph: There is No Such Thing as Affordable Renewable Energy
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…
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