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#Coal’s Trouble in #Paradise (is it @RealDonaldTrump Pay to Play in action?

February 12th, 2019 · Comments Off on #Coal’s Trouble in #Paradise (is it @RealDonaldTrump Pay to Play in action?

John Prine likely gave Paradise, Kentucky, its greatest fame. And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg CountyDown by the Green River where Paradise layWell, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in askingMister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away Now Paradise has another claim to fame as @RealDonaldTrump weighed in challenging […]

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Tags: coal · Cost-Benefit Analysis · Donald Trump · economics

RE less than C a growing reality …

June 25th, 2018 · Comments Off on RE less than C a growing reality …

A decade ago, Google came out with its RE<C initiative. That formula: Renewable Energy less than Coal In short, an announced plan to invest to spark innovation and deployment of clean energy systems that would be less expensive than coal in traditional economic terms — without requiring inclusion of the substantial externality costs from exploiting […]

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Tags: coal · economics · Energy · environmental economics · solar · wind power

BP’s “Stair Step” approach to coal and renewables in the electricity sector?

June 15th, 2018 · 1 Comment

BP’s chief economist, Spencer Dale, is perhaps one of those for who the old EF Hutton ad applies: when Spencer Dale speaks, people should listen. Thoughtful, substantive, and often incisive about what has happened, is happening, and might/potentially could happen in the energy sector. Dale’s presentations aren’t only substantive, but articulately engaging and done in […]

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Tags: coal · electricity · Electrification · Energy · Energy Forecasting

Also in from CPAC: Fascists, NRA, Trump-istas … and coal enthusiasts

February 23rd, 2018 · 1 Comment

The CPAC meeting has become a gathering of the worst of American and, sigh, global society. Whether white supremacists, gun lunatics, or science deniers, this is a ground central for those enamored with the Trump kakistocracy* and the destruction it is reigning on the United States and humanity. From CPAC emerges glimpses of the immoral, […]

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Tags: coal · Cost-Benefit Analysis

(R)Evolution, not war

February 5th, 2018 · Comments Off on (R)Evolution, not war

Human society has faced major shifts, periods of significant change, ranging from the printing press to the industrial revolution to the information age to the massively expansive set of changes in the 21st century from communications to biotechnology to energy systems.  And, when it comes to economic moves off 19th energy systems — the burning […]

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Tags: coal

UK and US both going back to 19th century? UK to past pollution levels, US to past polluting technologies

November 26th, 2017 · Comments Off on UK and US both going back to 19th century? UK to past pollution levels, US to past polluting technologies

A rather stunning thing passed by earlier this year: the United Kingdom’s 2016 emissions were back to 19th century levels. The key reason: a massive (52 percent) decline in coal use. the most dramatic change in 2016 came from coal emissions, which fell by 50% compared to a year earlier to around 37 million tonnes […]

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Tags: coal · Energy

For well over a century: #climate in #PopularMechanics

June 9th, 2017 · Comments Off on For well over a century: #climate in #PopularMechanics

Popular Mechanics is an American institution, a window on “how your world works” for 115 years. Amid its myriad pieces fascinating to tech geeks of all colors and strains (including Energy COOL-loving geeks), it has published quite a few pieces directly on or related to climate change over the years.  Little did I know, but […]

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Tags: climate change · coal

Really, really, REALLY great news (#solar #wind, #pv #WarOnCoal in PRC, …)

May 27th, 2017 · 1 Comment

This guest post from Martin Smith provides a taste (and, truly, just a taste)  of the things happening around the world, related to clean energy and reducing fossil foolish dependences. If Team Trump would get their minds out of promoting 19th century energy, leveraging knowledge of 20th century energy, and turn to 21st century realities […]

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Tags: coal · Energy · solar · wind power

Uncertainty: one nail in #coal’s coffin

March 8th, 2017 · Comments Off on Uncertainty: one nail in #coal’s coffin

Mark Sumner, someone who made his career in the coal mining industry, has penned (keystroked?) a thoughtful “Open letter to America’s Coal Miners & America“. This very respectful missive lays out the powerful ‘team’ reliance reality of coal-mining, highlights that coal powered America (and the globe) for a century, and lays out that any attack […]

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Tags: business practice · coal

Echoes of 2008 energy discussion in 2016 VP debate: Looking above shoulders or down between legs

October 5th, 2016 · Comments Off on Echoes of 2008 energy discussion in 2016 VP debate: Looking above shoulders or down between legs

Now Governor Jay Inslee served as a surrogate, on energy issues, for then Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 election. In that role, Inslee provided one of the least-heralded (in my mind) but most important ways of looking at the 2008 election: John McCain thinks that when you look for energy, you look under your […]

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Tags: 2016 Presidential Election · coal