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The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025
The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Thermodynamic drag It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency ‘Crisis,’ Environmentalists Warn – Inside Climate News From Fear to […]
The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024
The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024 The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities Antarctica’s tipping points threaten global climate stability Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years | Energy industry | The Guardian Homesteading 101: Regenerative Farming and the American Farmer. A Predicament With An Outcome […]
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024
The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024 The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash Global Warming and the Great Unravelling All Stories Are Propaganda | how to save the world The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer Are We Running Out Of Copper? This Image Says […]
The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024
The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024 The Argument for Assisted Collapse – George Tsakraklides Total Grid Collapse Strikes Cuba (Again) | ZeroHedge Yes, Climate Change Is Probably Going To Kill You Reductionism Doesn’t Work Holistically It was always about the oil #294: The perils of extremes | Surplus Energy Economics Lavrov Warns Europe The New Cold […]
Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It
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 have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. […]
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals
China can’t quit coal by 2040, researchers say, despite global climate goals A general view of a coal mine during a Huawei-organised media tour, in Yulin city, Shaanxi province, China April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) – China’s coal consumption will fall by just one-third by 2040, according […]
What did they expect?
What did they expect? My house backs on to a railway line which is now exclusively for passenger trains. It wasn’t always this way though. There was a time when the relative peace was broken six times a day by the roar of freight trains heading up the Rhymney Valley. Their destination was the coal […]
China’s Coal Production Hit a New Record High in 2023
China’s Coal Production Hit a New Record High in 2023 Higher power demand and efforts to boost energy security pushed China’s coal production to a record-high level in 2023, according to official statistics data published on Wednesday. Chinese coal output rose by 2.9% year-over-year to 4.66 billion metric tons in 2023, per data from China’s […]
India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October
India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October India produced a record amount of electricity from coal in October to make up for a shortfall in hydro generation following lower-than-normal monsoon rains. Coal remains fundamental to the country’s energy security, despite rapid deployment of wind and solar generation, underscoring the challenge of reducing […]
Germany’s Uniper Warns Of Possible “Irregular Operation” At Major Power Plant As Rhine River Runs Dry
Germany’s Uniper Warns Of Possible “Irregular Operation” At Major Power Plant As Rhine River Runs Dry Germany’s Uniper SE, the country’s largest utility (recently bailed out by state-owned lender KfW), warned Thursday that plunging water levels on the Rhine River have reduced barge shipments of coal to a key power plant, exacerbating an energy crunch as power […]
Australia invokes emergency powers to block coal exports in energy crisis
Australia invokes emergency powers to block coal exports in energy crisis Authorities permitted to keep supplies, if needed, after consumers told to turn off the lights Australian authorities have given themselves the power to block coal exports if the resource is needed to ease the country’s crippling power crisis in the latest measure taken to […]
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia
Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia Australia’s east coast has been plunged into an energy crisis just as winter takes hold, which will see many people struggle to heat their homes due to soaring gas bills. Meanwhile, Origin Energy this […]
EU Pushes To Break “Energy Taboo” With Proposed Ban On Russian Coal Imports
EU Pushes To Break “Energy Taboo” With Proposed Ban On Russian Coal Imports Update (0825ET): As EU ambassadors meet on Tuesday to discuss another proposal on Russian sanctions, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock insisted that the EU would “completely end” its fossil fuel dependence on Russia, starting with coal. Of course, as we noted below, Germany […]
Why liquefied coal (CTL) and natural gas (GTL) can’t replace oil
Why liquefied coal (CTL) and natural gas (GTL) can’t replace oil Preface. Here are just a few of the reasons why we aren’t likely to convert enough coal to diesel to matter as oil decines (see Chapter 11 Liquefied Coal: There Goes the Neighborhood, the Water, and the Air for more details on this in When Trucks […]
