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Tag Archives: coal
Get the benefit while everyone pays the cost
Dr. Rabett has translated Ottmar Edenhofer’s Süddeutscher Zeitung interview from German. Excerpt: OE: Take coal for example. Worldwide there are about 12, 000 gigatons of coal in the ground. If we want to meet the goal of not warming by … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global, idiocracy, industry, Science Links
Tagged Climate, coal, Externalities, Ottmar Edenhofer
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Kinds of Denialism
The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German. To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, idiocracy, industry, Journalism
Tagged co2, coal, France, Germany, nuclear, Scorecard, WWF
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Coal is Bad
And there could have been much less of its use – but the alternatives of the past lay in half finished ruins. Kirk Sorensen explores them and their history concisely. Grand total: 85,000 tons of coal each day that TVA … Continue reading
Energy Mix
This is what many people should grasp what renewables and nuclear are about. The real electricity world operates with an energy mix. In many places there is open electricity trading, and if you introduce new sources to the marketplace, it … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, industry, Motivation
Tagged coal, energy mix, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind
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Some Chinese Problems
If you want to give people a higher material standard of living, you need energy. If you need to do this via industrialization, you need even more of it. China has done it with coal. There is this lengthy article … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, industry, Thorium
Tagged china, coal, glowing mountains, inner mongolia
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