Tag: fossil fuels

Golden Age of Coal

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POSTED ON DECEMBER 18, 2023 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN ENERGY POLICY

THE GOLDEN AGE OF COAL

You wouldn’t know it from reading the newspapers, but that is what we are living in. The recently-concluded COP28 conference touted a coming end to the use of fossil fuels, with coal first in line for extinction. But that isn’t happening. Robert Bryce has the data:

The [International Energy Agency] expects coal use to rise by 1.4% this year and set a new record of 8.5 billion tons.

So more coal is being burned than ever before.

That increase shows, yet again, how difficult it will be to achieve significant cuts in CO2 emissions from hydrocarbon use. Mainly due to coal use, which accounts for about 40% of emissions from energy, global CO2 emissions will set another new record in 2023 of 36.8 billion tons.

So good luck with “net zero” by 2050, or any other date.

World Primary Energy Consumption – Fossil Fuels Rule

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Good article by David Middleton on WUWT.

He’s rebutting this:

“The amount of wind power capacity in North, Central and South America jumped 12 percent in the past year, a report revealed Tuesday. The Global Wind Energy Council found 11.9 gigawatts of capacity was added to the region, with the United States and Brazil among the biggest contributors.

The report bodes well for plans to transition more energy usage onto sustainable means, dropping the fossil fuels of yesteryear.”

I think the chart kind of proves that the fossil fuels aren’t exactly disappearing …