Coal – July 2
Richard Heinberg: Coal in China
Aluminium supply in deficit on coal shortage – UBS
Equipment shortage slows US coal output growth-CEO
Coal
Coal in China
China has encouraged rapid export-led economic growth as a way of putting off dealing with its internal political and social problems. Economic growth requires energy, and China’s energy comes overwhelmingly from coal. The nation’s short-term survival strategy thus centers on producing enormous quantities of coal today, and far more in the future. (Excerpts)
Nuclear & sequestration – June 30
ITER costs give partners pause (fusion pricetag jumps)
Nuclear cost estimates may put end to renaissance
Carbon sequestration: bury the idea, not the CO2
Solar, coal, nuclear – June 26
The economics of solar power
How clean coal cooks your brain
Radioactive déjà vu in the American West
The world’s biggest pollution factory
At the root of many of China’s air-quality problems is its heavy dependence on relatively high-sulfur, low-quality coal for everything from electricity generation and industrial production to cooking and space heating in the home. China relies on coal for almost 75% of its energy needs. In fact, each year, China consumes more coal than Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States combined.
United Kingdom – June 20
The Tory leader – maybe he really is green
Prince’s aide attacks Labour over transport
Green activists occupy land set aside for opencast coal mine
Coal – June 1
Mounting costs slow the push for clean coal
Buried, but not dead (sequestration)
Jim Hansen: How to get off coal
Coal in the United States
Coal currently looks like a solution to many of America’s fast-growing energy problems. However, this is a solution that, if applied on a broad scale, seems certain only to exacerbate the nation’s energy dilemma in the long run, as well as contributing to an impending global climate catastrophe. (Excerpts)
ODAC Newsletter – 23 May 2008
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Coal – May 19
Coal industry turns up heat in ad campaign
The world has enough coal reserves for 100 years: true or false?
Why investors worship Old King Coal
Climate – May 16
World’s wildlife and environment already hit by climate change
Greenhouse gases highest for 800,000 years
Basalt – a climate change solution?
Climate-change litigation is heating up
Problems – May 14
Floods in Australia coal-mine raise costs of cars, planes, washers
Gas ‘chimneys’ sweep BP clean coal plan away
New wave of nuclear plants faces high costs
