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Trump Treasury Sec. nominee Scott Bessent: ‘China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race’

RON WYDEN: "We're in a clean energy arms race with China. Which side are you on?" SCOTT BESSENT: "China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race. China will build 10 nuclear plants this year. I'm in favor of more nuclear… pic.twitter.com/loFYRiETc3 — […]

Lomborg: Expensive climate policy is dead — and it could be an immense opportunity

https://jordantimes.com/opinion/bjorn-lomborg/expensive-climate-policy-dead-%E2%80%94-and-it-could-be-immense-opportunity By Bjorn Lomborg The latest climate summit has been as hypocritical and dysfunctional as everyone before, with most world leaders not even bothering to turn up. Still, 50,000 people flew in from across the world, while essentially telling the rest of us to stop flying. Poor-country politicians performatively staged a “walk-out”, and rich nations […]

Net Zero Failure: IEA – International Energy Agency: ‘Global coal demand to reach a new all-time high in 2024’ – ‘Global consumption of coal has doubled in past 3 decades’ – China, India & Indonesia are largest producers: – China ‘accounts for half of global coal production’

IEA report: In 2024, global coal production is expected to reach an all-time high, surpassing 9 Bt for the first time. The three largest producers – China, India and Indonesia – reached new records for output. China, which accounts for half of global production, is set to see output grow by 1% in 2024, despite declines in the first half of this year amid a safety campaign in Shanxi, the largest producing province. In India, the government is incentivising production from public companies, mainly Coal India, as well as captive and commercial producers. As a result, output is set to rise by over 7%. Indonesian producers, which benefited from strong domestic coal demand and sustained demand from international markets, are expected to surpass 800 Mt for the first time.

UK’s Sec. of Net Zero Ed Miliband called the ‘Net Zero Stalin’: Miliband now reports to himself over Net Zero – ‘UK is now a one-legged man sawing through his good leg’

https://tomed.substack.com/p/is-ed-miliband-the-net-zero-stalin?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1284039&post_id=153061739&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1g0x4t&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email By Tom Ed On November 5th a tweet was so puffed up on self-importance that it could only have come from a public servant. Someone you won’t have heard of, yet pay a doubtlessly hefty salary, called Chris Stark announced that ‘today is an important day’. Government officials frequently have strange ideas as to […]

Bloomberg News: Big tech data centers, & AI are ‘going to disrupt the green transition’ as utilities ‘rely heavily on natural gas, & even coal’ to ‘have reliable & affordable power’

Bloomberg News: Big tech companies need lots of electricity, for data centers and especially for artificial intelligence. Homes are using more electricity for heating and cooling. Factories need more electricity to shift away from fossil fuels. … That’s really going to disrupt the green transition. Power providers that have made pledges to cut back or eliminate carbon emissions are now starting to reverse course. Duke Energy Corp. plans to extend the life of its largest coal-fired power plant, which would push aside its goal to exit coal by 2035. Duke has said that its resource plans are not final decisions and are revised regularly.

Power providers that have made pledges to cut back or eliminate carbon emissions are now starting to reverse course. … And all of that is before Donald Trump returns to the White House next month. The president-elect is well-known for his support of fossil fuels and his skepticism of climate policies.

Stop the ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants

Stop the ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants By Ronald Stein, P.E. America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels to replace coal power plants. This is with the expectation that America, with about 4% of the world’s population, can drastically impact the […]

Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary argues that fossil fuels are integral to human development

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/trumps-pick-energy-secretary-argues-fossil-fuels-are-integral-human By Kevin Killough Chris Wright is CEO of Liberty Energy, which produces an ESG report that argues that all the conditions of human happiness – food, shelter, health, education and longevity – aren’t possible without affordable reliable and secure energy, of which fossil fuels are a leading part. If approved by the Senate, Trump’s pick […]

Celebrate! The World is Ignoring the UN Emissions Edicts – ‘Global CO2 emissions are increasing to record levels’ – China fakes being ‘green’ as it ‘still burns more coal than the rest of the world’

By IER – Institute for Energy Research

1 Despite voluntary targets set in the wake of the Paris Climate Accord, global carbon dioxide emissions are increasing to record levels.

2 In 2023, the world produced 57.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide warming equivalent, as nations struggle to provide jobs, opportunities, and food for their people.

3 Since the Paris Accord is not a treaty, nations cannot be held to their commitments, although some governments use that as a justification for pursuing changes in energy policies.

4 China has the largest wind and solar deployment but still burns more coal than the rest of the world and its greenhouse gas emissions increased 5.2% last year.

5 China has used its cheap coal to capture the world market for wind and solar assemblies and other critical elements governments need for the energy transition.

6 In November, there will be another climate convention in Baku, Azerbaijan—the 29th annual meeting–to discuss further commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Analysis: ‘Why wind & solar are the energy past, not future’ – ‘Fossil fuels are the energy present, & nuclear power is likely the energy future’

Via Energy Bad Boys – By Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling: It might come as a shock to lawmakers like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but nearly all the energy used by humans until a few hundred years ago was renewable, and life was not a utopian heaven on Earth. The graph nearby shows the amount of energy used by humans from 1800 through the present. In 1800, humanity used 452 times less energy than humans in 2019, and nearly all of it came from biomass. The “Low Energy” world humans lived in was no paradise. Average life expectancies were less than 40 years. In Germany, every second child died. People’s statures were shorter because poor nutrition and illness limited human growth. Life was indeed nasty, brutish, and short, and it remained this way until humans began using coal at scale in the 1800s.

Wind as an energy source had first been used for sailboats in Mesopotamia. Until the first windmills were invented by the Persians to grind grain and pump water between 500 and 900 A.D., wind energy was primarily used for transportation. Windmills became widespread in Europe in the 17th century, and approximately 200,000 windmills operated at the peak of the technology. Of course, the disadvantages of wind we experience today were still present back then. Because wind power cannot be stored, it was used primarily to mill grain into flour, pump water into livestock tanks, and saw lumber into boards.

In fact, because wind energy was dependent on the weather and wasn’t reliable, horses were used as “backup” sources of power for milling grain during calm stretches in Europe, similar to how natural gas power plants “back up” wind turbines for generating electricity when the wind isn’t blowing on modern electricity grids. …

While each of the “renewable” energy sources above increased the human standard of living, they also had limited availability and reliability. It was the discovery and widespread use of coal that enabled humans to access vast supplies of reliable energy on demand and perform more work than ever before dreamed. This energy powered the industrial revolution.

The widespread use of oil for lighting was short-lived, however, because, in 1882, Thomas Edison built his first commercial electricity plant, ushering in the era of electricity. When it comes to energy, nothing is as powerful, versatile, safe, easy to use, or clean as electricity. …

Unlike other forms of energy, electricity is not a primary source of energy by itself. Instead, electricity is a secondary source of energy that must be generated by converting primary energy sources (such as coal, natural gas, oil, uranium, water, solar, or wind energy) into electric power.

Wind and solar don’t produce much power because they are unreliable and the exact opposite of energy-dense, requiring vast buildouts to produce only a small amount of electricity. As a result, they have an exceedingly low energy return on investment (EROI). …

In fact, if all the electricity you used for 70 years was generated at nuclear facilities, the amount of uranium used would fit inside a soda can. The high energy density of uranium is why nuclear power has the potential to someday generate electricity at a lower cost than fossil fuels and is why it is most likely the future of electricity generation. Unlike wind and solar, it produces carbon-dioxide-free electricity around the clock, so a grid powered by nuclear power won’t experience California-style blackouts.

Trump has a plan to fix the electricity grid — Increase supply

https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/09/trump-has-a-plan-to-fix-the-electricity-grid-increase-supply/ By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Citing the need for more electricity to continue growing the artificial intelligence (AI) sector and keep the U.S. tech industry ahead of China, former President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 vowed in a second term to issue a “national emergency declaration to achieve a massive increase in domestic energy supply.” But […]

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