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Are we approaching peak coal? Part 1
Climate Progress —
... The “probably enough” claim does not appear to be based on any rigorous analysis, and the Committee itself called for a major 10-year assessment effort. The group Clean Energy Action will be coming out soon with a mine-by-mine assessment that has been reported to conclude we have far less than a 100-year supply, perhaps as little as 10 to 20 years. I will blog on that when it hits the streets. The Energy Watch Group, an independent group of scientist who investigate energy issues initiated by a German member of parliament, published ...
Are we approaching peak coal? Part 1
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... The group Clean Energy Action will be coming out soon with a mine-by-mine assessment that has been reported to conclude we have far less than a 100-year supply, perhaps as little as 10 to 20 years. I will blog on that when it hits the streets. ...
Why I Sold My Utility Stocks
Alternative Energy Stocks —
... , but that may be only the tip of the iceberg. I was recently asked to advise an
anti-coal, pro renewables advocacy group in a rate case. Looking at the evidence, I expect
that utility regulators may begin to slash authorized returns on equity. ...
Are we approaching Peak Coal? Part 2
Climate Progress —
... noted that the U.S. Geological Survey’s stunning December report found The coal reserves estimate for the Gillette coalfield is 10.1 billion short tons of coal (6 percent of the original resource total). Although the report didn’t get much media attention, it was a shocker because the Gillette field, within Wyoming’s Powder River Basin “is the most prolific coalfield in the United States” and in 2006 provided “over 37 percent of the Nation’s total yearly production .” Now Clean Energy Action has issued a new report, Coal: Cheap and Abundant … Or is it? that goes beyond ...
Are we approaching peak coal? Part 2
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Now Clean Energy Action has issued a new report, Coal: Cheap and Abundant ... Or is it? that goes beyond the analysis in the USGS study and concludes: ...
Life After Coal: It's Sooner Than You Think
Alternative Energy Stocks —
... have passed, and Peak Coal is undeniably 2 years closer.
(Did you ever wonder why people who have been saying that we have 200 years of
coal for 20 years aren't now talking about 180 years of coal?) But more
than being 2 years closer, the evidence continues to mount. Caltech
Professor David
Rutledge, has been spreading the peak coal word for most of the time
since. I recommend the video of his 2007
lecture on the subject.
On February 12th, Clean Energy
Action released a report
on Powder River Basin coal supplies, based in part ...
Life after coal: It's sooner than you think
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... for 20 years aren't now talking about 180 years of coal?) But more than being two years closer, the evidence continues to mount. Caltech Professor David Rutledge has been spreading the peak coal word for most of the time since. I recommend the video of his 2007 lecture on the subject. It's great that the New York Times is asking "Is America Ready to Quit Coal?" but the real question may be "Will we have any choice?" On February 12, Clean Energy Action released a report on Powder River Basin coal supplies, based in ...
