Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal’s request for a foreign response to his country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than…
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China Wants More Coal
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) and later targets have called for, among other measures, the creation of around 100 million tonnes/year of coal production-capacity reserve (production+net imports-consumption) by 2030.
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…
Taxpayer Subsidies for Chinese Batteries? Just Say No!
“American taxpayers should not finance the expansion of Chinese-controlled battery companies inside the United States.”
China’s Great Wall of Fossil Fuels
Instead of focusing on China’s shiny clean energy activities—which, while impressive in scale, remain largely additive rather than transformative—the developed world, particularly Europe, should take a page out of China’s…
The Case for EVs Has Failed
The case for EVs has failed, says Professor Gautam Kalghatgi. With lifetime emissions scarcely better and net health impacts three-fold worse than combustion vehicles, destroying our car industry cannot be…
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…
China Wind & Solar: Output Lags Capacity
China, already losing money on its wind and solar buildout, evidently has a tiger by the tail with transmission capacity to get solar and wind from nowhere to somewhere.
China’s Spent Rockets Are Turning Low Earth Orbit Into a Debris Minefield
China’s pattern of treating low Earth orbit like a dumping ground at the same time it is expanding potential military space capabilities should raise serious concerns for anyone relying on…
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…
Lawmakers Warn China May Be Fueling US Data Center Backlash as Local Bans Spread
Voters in a California city ban AI data center construction, plans for Utah data center shrinking over backlash, Seattle issues one-year prohibition on center construction.
China Rejects Accusations of Cooking the Books on Carbon Emissions
Apparently disappearing half of China’s emissions has a perfectly reasonable explanation.
China’s Solar Industry Redesigned Itself Around U.S. Forced Labor Law
Continuing to look away is a choice, and the people living inside this system will bear the consequences long after the next procurement cycle closes.
Super Power To Spare: How Battery Tech Illuminates Competition Between U.S. & China
Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure.
Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right?
My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.
Rare Earth Leverage and Pressure Points on U.S. Technological Power
The rare‑earth crisis is becoming a structural element of the global environment, shaping the resilience of the American technological and defense system. In the logic of the Yankee angle, the…
How China Dominates the World’s Critical Minerals Production
For the West, securing critical mineral supply without reliance on China requires more than just sourcing mines in friendly countries. It requires alternative processing capacity, substantial long-term supply agreements, and…
BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs
After years of climate-driven experimentation – forced by deluded or dishonest politicians and business titans – the failures became too many and too consequential to be ignored. Little wonder that…
US Energy Realism Pays Off in Iran Crisis
What the current crisis proves is simple: Energy security resides in the ability to secure physical molecules – oil, gas, coal and uranium – when geopolitical storms hit. Europe, and…
Chinese Communist Party Using Nonprofit Networks to Attack American Energy, Report Suggests
A Chinese Communist Party connected organization gave millions of dollars to an environmental law non-profit that targets energy projects in Louisiana.
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