Coal Still Powers the World Economy

Only mostly Western countries are stupid enough not to rely on coal for power generation! In particular, Germany became a banana republic by e.g. demolishing working coal and nuclear fueled power plants!

While e.g. China built hundreds of new coal fired power plants in recent years!

High time to end the global warming hoax and climate change nonsense!

"But yet, here we are… global coal consumption has definitely not declined, quite the contrary, it has only grown from roughly 6 billion tons in 2008 ... to around 9 billion tons today. Not to mention the seaborne trade which almost doubled! So the question is not whether coal is disappearing as we were told, it’s whether we misunderstood this useful black rock in the first place. ..."

Coal Still Powers the World Economy "If you think coal is a thing of the past…then you are missing the big picture, which is far more complex and far more relevant than most headlines suggest ..."

Trump signs executive order to boost U.S coal production

Good news! E.g. for data centers

Just a reminder: China has been building hundreds of coal fired power plants for years while Western countries obsess about so called "clean" renewable energy.

Study finds US coal ash contains $8.4B or 11 million tons in rare earth elements

Good news! One man's trash is another man's treasure!

Global coal power generation Continues Growing

Just a reminder! Only Western countries are stupid enough to shut down coal power!

Wind and solar power are a joke! 

"... “Since 2015, when the countries reached a deal on the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world has added 259 GW of operating coal power capacity,” ... “As of the end of 2024, total operating coal power capacity hit a record high of 2,175 gigawatts (GW), while another 611 GW of capacity was under development, according to GEM’s Global Coal Plant Tracker.”

Global demand hit a new record high in 2024, with India alone—the third-largest CO2 emitter in absolute terms—having a 5 percent increase in coal demand. ..."

• "Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand.
• Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few more years.
• Global operating coal power capacity has increased by 13% since 2015, data from Global Energy Monitor shows.

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Climate Change Weekly # 537 — Unreported Conflicts of Interest Rife in Climate Research - The Heartland Institute

The End of Coal Is Nowhere In Sight

After years of being whipping boy for climate fanatics, coal industry sees a brighter future under Trump

Good news! China needs a lot of coal imports and continues to build dozens if not hundreds of coal fired power plants per year!

"As of July 2024, there were 1,161 operational coal power plants in China, the most in the world. China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal, and generates more than half of the world's coal-fired electricity." (Google AI search result)

Keep in mind: Global warming is a hoax and climate change is a religion! It is being used as a pretext by Big Government and the elite to interfere with our lives. It is among the greatest scams and scandals of at least the last 30 years!

After years of being whipping boy for climate, coal industry sees a brighter future under Trump | Just The News "Retirements of coal-fired power plants in the U.S. are being delayed or canceled, while nations in Europe and Asia are showing growing interest in American coal."

Global coal demand hits record high in 2024, set to plateau through 2027

Only Western countries (in particular Germany) are stupid enough to shut down their coal fired power plants, while China builds huge number of new such plants each year.

Chart of the day

Annual coal consumption by major geographic area.

Look at e.g. India: It has reached now the highest level of U.S. consumption ever. "In 2023, the Indian government upped the ante, ordering the construction of 10 GW of new coal power.  ... In fact, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is calling on the country to build 31 GW of new coal power “in the next 5 or 6 years,” ..."

At the expense of Western countries! Western citizens are indoctrinated on a daily basis with the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change demagoguery!

P.S. Our World in Data appears to be a very nice website for data visualization, exploration etc.

Credits: The Heartland Institute

China’s coal conundrum

Recommendable! Why are not more nuclear power plants are built to safely, reliably, and environmentally friendly meet the global power demand?

How many new coal power plants are opened in China per year? A lot! 

China is and continues to be heavily dependent on coal for energy supply decades into the future, while Western countries willfully mutilate their economies like Harakiri using communist central planning to meet ridiculous environmental/climate goals based on the Global Warming hoax/Climate Change religion. This self imposed paradox by Western countries is unfathomable and totally irrational!

"In 2020, China brought 38.4 gigawatts of new coal-fired power into operation, more than three times what was brought on line everywhere else. ... A total of 247 gigawatts of coal power is now in planning or development, nearly six times Germany’s entire coal-fired capacity. China has also proposed additional new coal plants that, if built, would generate 73.5 gigawatts of power, more than five times the 13.9 gigawatts proposed in the rest of the world combined. Last year, Chinese provinces granted construction approval to 47 gigawatts of coal power projects, more than three times the capacity permitted in 2019. ..." (Source)

"In the lead-up to the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party last month, hundreds of Chinese coal mines were ordered to shut down to ensure the celebrations weren’t marred by any fatal accidents [and smoke filled air]. ...
According to the South China Morning Post, 130 mines with a combined capacity of 186 million tonnes a year were closed in Shanxi, the biggest coal-producing province, while similar measures were implemented in other provinces. ...

The coal market highlights the irreconcilable pressures confronting the Chinese government.

It wants to lower carbon emissions in line with Xi Jinping’s promise to the United Nations last year of a peak in China’s emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2060. China’s embrace of ambitious climate targets was designed to get ahead of America on the eve of last year’s US presidential election. ...
In pursuit of these goals, the government has ordered steel production this year not to exceed the 1.05 billion tonnes produced in 2020. It has also handed out some economic punishment to Australia by banning purchases of Australian coal, on which it had spent $14 billion in 2018–19. ...
at the meeting of G20 climate and energy ministers in Italy last month, China joined India and Russia in opposing a resolution to mandate the shutdown of coal-fired power and to ban international finance of coal mining. ...
The decision to ban Australian coal, which has been enforced since last October, has been problematic for both China’s steel mills and its power stations. Although the steel mills have been able to replace Australian coal with Mongolian coal, the latter is lower quality and industry analysts say its use without blending with the high-quality coal that Australia is known for will result in damage to the coke ovens at the major mills and ultimately the loss of steel-making capacity. ...
A drought in southern China cut the availability of hydro power. Although China has been rolling out wind and solar power, their intermittent supply means the country has been relying more heavily on coal to meet the surge in demand for power over the summer. ..."

China’s coal conundrum | The Strategist

German Central Planners To Shut Down Coal Mining In Germany

Posted: 1/27/2019

Here is the Washington Post article: Climate fight: Germany sets 2038 deadline to end coal use (Notice WP uses the moronic expression “climate fight”)

The Iron Curtain fell in 1990 and central economic planning invaded Germany. A former communist party official (controversial) has been the chancellor of Germany for over the past 13 years. What an irony!

Under Merkel, massive, heavy handed, very costly energy policies in Germany are akin to a great socialist leap forward!

To use government coercion to shut down coal mining in Germany is ridiculous! If coal mining one day is not economically viable anymore, mining will cease by itself.

There are plenty of new energy supply options on the horizon: hydrogen; possibly nuclear fusion; biofuels produced by bacteria and/or plants; photosynthesis; superconductivity and so forth

This government mandated shut down does not make any sense whatsoever! German politicians and too many German citizens are out of their minds! Common sense need to be restored in the land of thinkers and poets!