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Coal logic Not your father's Old Coal	Sean Casten	19 Aug 2007	Gristmill
In thinking and responding to posts about the latest EPRI propaganda, a couple questions came to mind. Questions I'm a bit embarrassed I hadn't thought of before, so I pose them to you now: If coal isn't cheap, is there any reason to build it? If we're willing to pay 12 cents/kWh for baseload power, would you preferentially pay it to coal? Those may seem odd questions to ask, but follow me through the math. Today, we don't deploy as much [fill in your favori ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture A new technology to reduce GHG emissions from coal plants	Joseph Romm	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The carbon capture and storage (CCS) discussion has focused on pre-combustion capture of CO2, since it has long been assumed that it is easier and cheaper than trying to capture the CO2 post-combustion from the flue gas (exhaust stream). The problem is: (1) that approach limits CCS to new coal plants, and (2) that requires utilities to build integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants, which are more expensive to build and more expensive to maintain. Po ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

All So You Can Have Cheap Electricity Three workers killed, six injured in Utah coal-mine rescue effort		17 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All So You Can Have Cheap Electricity Three workers killed, six injured in Utah coal-mine rescue effort Three rescue workers were killed and at least six others injured when a section of Utah's Crandall Canyon coal mine caved in Thursday night. The workers were involved in the nine-day effort to reach six miners trapped deep within the mine. Seismic activity has caused the operation to halt several times; a seismic "bump" caus ...
Topics: coal, energy, news (all these topics)

Three rescue workers killed in Utah mine The tragedy grows	David Roberts	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Two Three rescue workers were killed and at least seven six others injured when a tunnel collapsed in Crandall Canyon mine, the site of a rescue operation attempting to reach six miners that have been trapped inside for what is now 11 days without contact. Mine officials are discussing whether to shut down the rescue effort.
Topics: coal, energy, Utah (all these topics)

EPRI: The secret to carbon reduction is more coal Really?	Sean Casten	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The Electric Power Research Institute just released 'The Power to Reduce CO2 Emissions' (PDF), its discussion paper to 'provide stakeholders with a framework [to] develop a research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) Action Plan that will enable sustainable and substantial electricity sector CO2 emissions reductions over the coming decades.' It is crazy, mathematically bogus, economically disastrous, and generally inane ... but will reach an audience vast ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

The coal truth A tragedy in Utah and everywhere else, too	Kate Sheppard	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Coal is the enemy of the human race, Salon edition: This is the great paradox today: In an age of global warming and greater energy and safety awareness, we are also witnessing the great coal revival. Nearly 50 percent of our electricity still comes from coal -- the very energy that runs our computers on which we read this story, or our televisions on which we watch the latest reports of cameras snaking down into the mine in Utah in search of survivors. And as our d ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Huffington calls on press to do that thing I did	David Roberts	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Arianna Huffington wonders why, with all the press coverage of the Utah mine collapse, so little has focused on the horrible safety record, anti-unionism, and political back-room dealings of the mine company's faux-folksy CEO, Bob Murray. What she does not do, apparently, is read her own site. Just saying.
Topics: business, coal, energy, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

More Murray	David Roberts	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday the Washington Post ran a profile of Robert Murray, head of Murray Energy, owner of the Utah mine that recently collapsed and all around evil motherfvcker. I actually thought the story did a decent job of showing what an unhinged fruitcake Murray is, gibbering on about how "elites" who attack coal don't understand what it's like to work in a coal mine -- this from a guy who's spent his career battling unions and running mines with horrendous safet ...
Topics: business, coal, energy (all these topics)

Deutsche steinkohle ist kaputt Except that we still have to wait another 10 years	Ron Steenblik	10 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The German government on Wednesday cleared the way -- finally -- to phase out the mining of hard coal in Germany. As explained by this Associated Press article in the International Herald Tribune, the heavily subsidized German hard coal industry still employs about 33,000 people in eight underground mines. The plan is to phase out hard-coal mining starting in 2009, and for miners to receive compensation if they are laid off prematurely. Hard-coal mining 'has n ...
Topics: coal, energy, Germany (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race: Utah miners edition How many more deaths will we tolerate?	David Roberts	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
About 4am yesterday, a mine in Utah collapsed, trapping six miners 1,500 feet underground, almost three and a half miles from the mine's entrance. No one knows if they are alive; there's been no contact since the collapse. Right now, rescuers are trying to drill through the mountainside to reach them. Progress has been slow, and it may well take up to three days. When the collapse first occurred, it was blamed on a small earthquake, but scientists now think the seis ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

With Safety Like This, Who Needs Danger? Rescue effort continues in collapsed Utah mine called 'safe' by owner		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
With Safety Like This, Who Needs Danger? Rescue effort continues in collapsed Utah mine called "safe" by owner The search for survivors continues at a coal mine in central Utah that collapsed early Monday. Four miners escaped the implosion -- which was so strong it registered magnitude 3.9 at a nearby seismic station -- but six others were trapped about three miles from the Crandall Canyon Mine entrance, some 1 ...
Topics: coal, energy, mining, news, Utah (all these topics)

YearlyKos: My message to the netroots Listen up	David Roberts	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I thought, as a final post on Yearly Kos (about which I fear my posts are woefully inadequate -- it really was a fascinating sociopolitical event, worthy of better analysis than I'm able to give it -- read Ezra Klein's wrap-up), I'd recap in somewhat more elaborate terms what I said at my global warming panel. These are points that will be familiar to Grist readers, but perhaps it's worth bringing them together. A note: these were explicitly conceived as messages to th ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, international politics, politics (all these topics)

YearlyKos: Obama and coal	David Roberts	04 Aug 2007	Gristmill
So, lots to talk about, but for now: I'm in a candidate forum with Barack Obama and he was just asked directly about coal. He dodged and weaved, said there would have to be a "transition," and that there would need to be "investments," etc. etc. Unsatisfying. He did, however, very strongly back the 80 percent by 2050 target, and backed a 20% national RPS. So there's that.
Topics: Barack Obama, coal, energy, politics (all these topics)

Congress debates whether 'clean coal' is awesome or supercool Oy	David Roberts	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Witness as the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee discusses clean coal: how awesome is it? Should we give it a gazillion dollars, or alternatively, a fajillion? Tough questions! Note:9:32 [Carl] Bauer [director, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Energy Department] Given current technology and coal consumption, the US has about 250 years of coal use.Um, no. Not according to NAS:It is clear that there is enough coal at current rates of production to meet ...
Topics: coal, energy, politics (all these topics)

Carbon- and nuclear-free America possible by 2050 Now that's a 12-step program	JMG	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A hopeful press release touting an even more hopeful (wishful?) report: Takoma Park, MD -- At the G-8 summit in Germany in June 2007, President Bush promised to 'consider seriously' the European Union goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to limit global temperature rise to about 4 degrees Fahrenheit. A new study concludes that the United States could eliminate almost all of its carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2050. It also concludes that it is possible ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Coal: Because you care enough to burn the very best I've watched this video four times now and I can't stop laughing	Kate Sheppard	30 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Yeeeessss. Because the only enemy of the human race greater than coal is ... the human race. This video comes to us from filmmaker Jeremy Beiler of Brooklyn, who is also a Grist reader and fan.
Topics: energy, coal (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race: Harry Reid edition Senate Majority Leader vows opposition to Nevada coal plants	David Roberts	30 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has occasionally been viewed with suspicion by enviros, thanks to his friendliness with the mining industry. This should help patch things up: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada sent a letter this week to four companies telling them not to build planned coal-burning power plants in his state. ... 'Because I believe that developing renewable energy in Nevada is far preferable to coal for the sake of our ...
Topics: coal, energy, Harry Reid, Nevada, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

BP, coal plants dump mercury into Great Lakes Enemies of the human race	Jon Rynn	27 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Last week, I put up a post explaining that BP will be increasing their dumping of toxic waste into the Great Lakes. Congress overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning BP's dumping -- a resolution sponsored by Rahm Emanuel, a powerful Democratic Congressman. Now, thanks to some fine investigative reporting by the Chicago Tribune, we find out that BP has been dumping mercury as well, and will continue to do so: Federal records analyzed by the Tribune show B ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, mercury, oil, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan		27 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan Members of the Navajo nation are at odds over a plan to build a $3 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant on reservation land in New Mexico. Tribal leaders say the plant -- whose juice would go to Las Vegas and Phoenix -- will generate $50 million in much-needed annual revenue and create ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, environmental justice, New Mexico, news, Texas (all these topics)

All You Need Is Lovins A conversation with energy guru Amory Lovins	David Roberts	26 Jul 2007	Main Dish
If politicians think in sound bites and intellectuals think in sentences, Amory Lovins thinks in white papers. His speech is studded with pregnant pauses -- you can almost hear the whirs and clicks as an enormous mass of statistics, analyses, and aphorisms is trimmed and edited into a manageable length. I've talked to experts who struggle to substantiate their answers. Lovins struggles to leave thing ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, biofuels, cars, coal, Congress, energy, energy efficiency, ethanol, fuel efficiency, Iraq, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hansen on 'trains of death' Yeah, coal again	Joseph Romm	26 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Still more from James Hansen's email: Ed Wilson explains that the 21st century is a "bottleneck" for species, because of extreme stresses they will experience, most of all from climate change. He foresees a potentially brighter future beyond the fossil fuel era, beyond the peak human population will occur if developing countries follow the path of the developed world to lower fertility rates. Air and water can be clean and we will learn to live wi ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, James Hansen, wildlife (all these topics)

Climate confusion in Hong Kong Dumb arguments rear their heads yet again	Joseph Romm	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
A reader pointed me to a letter in the South China Morning Post, "Cold water on the warming debate" (subs. req'd). The writer, a senior research fellow of the HK Institute of Economics and Business, rehashes a number of mistaken arguments I hear all too often: Many people fail to knit together these two strands - climate change and the exhaustion of fossil fuels. If they did, they would see that the energy crisis, which is predicted as a result of ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

NASA's Hansen on Live Earth, Gore, and coal It's all about coal	Joseph Romm	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
More from James Hansen's email: I was invited to go on stage at "Live Earth" at the Meadowlands, between Jon Bon Jovi and Smashing Pumpkins performances. I agreed to this, on the condition that I could bring my grandchildren, Sophie and Connor. I assumed it would be like last year when I appeared with Al Gore before a young audience, with a rather impromptu discussion of global warming. Bad assumption. When I asked "Where's Al?", I was told th ...
Topics: Al Gore, climate, climate change mitigation, coal, energy, green living, James Hansen, music (all these topics)

Bad news for coal, lessons for enviros New coal-fired plants are unlikely	Sean Casten	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
This from the Wall Street Journal today: From coast to coast, plans for a new generation of coal-fired power plants are falling by the wayside as states conclude that conventional coal plants are too dirty to build and the cost of cleaner plants is too high. If significant numbers of new coal plants don't get built in the U.S. in coming years, it will put pressure on officials to clear the path for other power sources, including nuclear power, or trim the nation' ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

More of NASA's James Hansen on Old King Coal How coal CO2 is different from oil CO2	Joseph Romm	24 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Our top climate scientist has sent out a really, really long email (where does he find the time?), mostly discussing comments on his recent essay on coal. I think Hansen is the clearest thinker on climate among the top scientists in the field, so I will reprint the email, breaking it up into several postings. The first one addresses "Coal-CO2 versus Oil-CO2": My statement that releasing a coal-CO2 molecule into the air is more harmful than setting ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, oil (all these topics)

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