“Despite challenges in 2023, Indonesia has demonstrated resilience to global shocks and an ever more diversified economic base is expected to mitigate adverse impacts,” says a spokesman for financial services…
Tag: Coal
Western Households Sacrificed While Asians Benefit From Coal Splurge
It’s time to stop making Western taxpayers sacrificial lambs at the altar of climate politics while countries like India and China burn huge amounts of fossil fuels to the benefit…
The UN and the Biden Administration Want Net Zero for the U.S.—While China Opts for Energy Realism
China does whatever advances China’s economic and ultimately its geopolitical interests. That is a lesson for America’s political leaders: if the United States wants to prevail in the geopolitical contest…
China Downplays International Hopes Of Beating Carbon Emissions Targets Ahead Of Meeting With Biden Climate Czar
China’s top energy officials dampened hopes that the country’s carbon emissions have already peaked Thursday following July reports the country would stop increasing emissions after this year, according to Bloomberg.
India Accentuates Coal Reliance in its New Economic Policy Brief
India’s enthusiasm for coal is driven by several factors: abundant domestic coal reserves, the need for reliable and affordable energy to fuel industrial growth and concerns about energy security. The…
Natural Gas Industry’s Smear of Coal Is False and Self-Defeating
A better approach would be for gas and coal interests to stand together for their industries and the immense good that hydrocarbons have done for the world since the beginning…
This Energy Transition Thing Really Is Not Happening
No matter how much the federal government or any state threatens to punish you for your sin of fossil fuel use, aggregate global emissions from such use are not going…
Numbers Don’t Lie
These 9 charts from the Statistical Review Of World Energy expose the myth of the energy transition & show hydrocarbons are growing faster than alt-energy
Biden Goes All-In With War on Coal
Rather than using our vast resources of coal, oil, and gas, the Biden Administration seems intent on committing economic suicide.
Coal’s Importance For Solar Panel Manufacturing
Today, there is not one single solar panel that can be produced without coal (or even oil and gas).
Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It
Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations…
The Biden Administration Ever More Delusional on Energy
…regulators have gotten farther and farther away from anything realistic, anything consistent with the laws of physics or thermodynamics, anything that might actually work. We are now well into the…
Net Zero? Fossil Fuels Are Leaving Us Before We Leave Them
There is no plateau; production tips over into a decline rate that settles down at 75 million tonnes per year and starts bottoming out late in the century.
Which Power Source is Best
The report concludes that “natural gas and nuclear power lead the rest of the class in generating clean and affordable energy”.
India Power Sector In 2023
New coal generating capacity added 2120 MW last year, and now stands at 208 GW. In the last three years 9630 MW has been added.
Climate Bureaucrats Give China a Free Pass
China’s annual greenhouse gas emissions have soared over the past 20 years, dwarfing those of the U.S. But according to our progressive federal bureaucrats, America’s cumulative historical emissions are the…
Germany’s Unstable Power Grid…Coal Plants Will Be Needed “For A Very Long Time”
At the end of the article, Haferburg comes to the conclusion that we will continue to see coal-fired power plants in operation for a very long time.
The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts
Industrial electricity use in the EU is collapsing. US policymakers “Have no excuse for not looking at Europe and learning.”
Energy: At Least We Have Some Coal Left
In a 10,000 year slice of human history, the fossil fuels are with us for only a brief moment. It is now going to be painful to do the requisite…
Energy notes from the edge: Coal trains vs. high speed rail – guess which is faster (into service); Here’s how big oil can sleep at night
The messaging should be that humanity requires oil and gas and will for decades, and that role of industry is to do this as cleanly and efficiently as possible.