I’ve published articles by Kennedy Maize here before via Master Resource, which gives me permission to use their material, but Maize has his own site called The Quad Report, which is always worth checking out.
Thanks, Thomas and Kennedy and oilprice - I love this quote from oilprice.com "Oilprice.com commented, “Ironically, it is coal power that is essentially fueling the energy transition. Coal power provides the cheap energy that Chinese and other Asian manufacturers of wind and solar components and equipment—not to mention EVs—use to keep their products cheap."
The only feasible avoidance of large increase of coal capacity needed to support the rapidly growing countries is expanded natural gas infrastructure, and is best achieved by removing barriers and letting market signal replacement. Possibly cautiously nudged with a GHG tax and corresponding habitat hazard tax, overall revenue neutral (remove equal amount of other taxes) and exemptions for a few sectors with less available substitutes like rural commuters and cobalt miners. The energy transition facing humans is not from thermal generation to continuous flow harvesting but rather from extensive to intensive generation to support increasing energy capacity and conserve ecosystems. Fission will become the foundation due to its small feedstock and facility magnitude. It’s not affordable at global scale now but R & D & commercialization is getting it there. At some scale of energy use the mere transport of fossil fuel feedstock will become intolerable for environment. At some higher scale the feedstock management for water cooled reactors will become intolerable for the environment, we’ll need breeder reactors that convert fertile isotopes to fissile.
The propaganda machine is the true enemy of coal. It is an important part of energy security. Stored on site, no pipelines to disrupt service, clean burning, ultra cost effective.
Thanks, Thomas and Kennedy and oilprice - I love this quote from oilprice.com "Oilprice.com commented, “Ironically, it is coal power that is essentially fueling the energy transition. Coal power provides the cheap energy that Chinese and other Asian manufacturers of wind and solar components and equipment—not to mention EVs—use to keep their products cheap."
Long live coal, oil, and natural gas!
The climate change hoaxers act like we are the only people polluting the earth.🇺🇸
The only feasible avoidance of large increase of coal capacity needed to support the rapidly growing countries is expanded natural gas infrastructure, and is best achieved by removing barriers and letting market signal replacement. Possibly cautiously nudged with a GHG tax and corresponding habitat hazard tax, overall revenue neutral (remove equal amount of other taxes) and exemptions for a few sectors with less available substitutes like rural commuters and cobalt miners. The energy transition facing humans is not from thermal generation to continuous flow harvesting but rather from extensive to intensive generation to support increasing energy capacity and conserve ecosystems. Fission will become the foundation due to its small feedstock and facility magnitude. It’s not affordable at global scale now but R & D & commercialization is getting it there. At some scale of energy use the mere transport of fossil fuel feedstock will become intolerable for environment. At some higher scale the feedstock management for water cooled reactors will become intolerable for the environment, we’ll need breeder reactors that convert fertile isotopes to fissile.
CHG taxes? Taxing CO2 the gas of life itself? Idiotic!
All very insightful, but I cringe at the suggestion of GHG taxes.
The propaganda machine is the true enemy of coal. It is an important part of energy security. Stored on site, no pipelines to disrupt service, clean burning, ultra cost effective.
And we have enough of it for centuries! What a waste to not use it.