With your help, BURN MORE COAL can turn this around. On the ironic side, not that even though coal generation is declining, CO2 emissions are increasing anyway.
Continue reading EIA: Coal’s share of electricity generation to slip (more) in 2019
This does not mean less coal — just less Western-financed coal. China will be happy to finance these plants and gain favor and influence among developing nations. China wins. The West loses. All for nothing.
Source: Bloomberg Web | Global Bankers Spurn Trump’s Pleas to Keep Making Loans for Coal – BloombergPDF
According to a new study, if you use residential batteries to reduce electricity costs, you increase CO2 emissions. If you use them to reduce emissions, the batteries operate like a carbon tax costing $180 to $5,160 per metric ton for the small percentage (2.2 – 6.4%) of emissions avoided. So energy storage technology doesn’t even work on a small scale in homes — yet US electric utilities are announcing coal shutdowns in hopes that battery technology will somehow and someday be able to economically store wind and solar power on utility-scale.
Continue reading Busted: Residential battery storage systems are expensive junk
What BURN MORE COAL is fighting against: “California now has the highest overall poverty rate in the nation, they write, and suffers from a level of inequality ‘closer to that of Central American banana republics.’ Much of this is the fault of California’s green agenda, which chokes off economic growth and has been imposed more as a theological imperative than the result of any sober, cost-benefit analysis.”
“Inslee said the largest driver behind these policies is necessity, citing a recent joint study released by Stanford University and the University of Washington that found Earth’s largest extinction came from global warming and oxygen loss 250 million years ago.” That’s how crazy anti-coal advocates are. This legislative package will require an awful lot of lying for passage.
Xcel Energy CEO Ben Fowke recently announced with great fanfare that his utility would be zeroing-out CO2 emissions by 2050. We ask Fowke whether this is really the type of announcement the CEO of a publicly-owned company should really be making.
Continue reading BURN MORE COAL to Xcel Energy: Not so fast on exiting coal
COP-24 is all talk and no action says Dutch Green Party member Bas Eickout. The reason for this is that the purpose of the Paris climate deal was to hamstring the US economy. Sadly US utilities have fallen into the trap. BURN MORE COAL to the rescue.
Source: EurActiv.com
“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability,” said Trump adviser Wells Griffith at COP-24 . BURN MORE COAL could not have said it better.
We respond to Entergy about its settlement with the Sierra Club to shut down two tried-and-true coal plants. Check out what Entergy extracted from the Sierra Club in return for shuttering the plants.
