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.
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.
Environmentalists in the U.S. and Western Europe have succeeded in prematurely shuttering a number of coal plants, but that is virtually irrelevant.
In any event, even a tripling in energy from renewables-which isn't happening-would scarcely make a dent in the world's demand for fossil fuels, as this chart by Bryce shows: When it comes to coal, supposedly slated for extinction by the world's "Greens," the U.S. and Western Europe are irrelevant.
There is no replacement for this capacity on the horizon: Bloomberg and his allies at the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Earthjustice, are launching their campaign to shutter all of our coal plants despite numerous warnings from grid operators, federal authorities, and trade groups that the U.S. grid is facing serious reliability challenges.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman Willie Phillips told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in May, "We face unprecedented challenges to the reliability of our nation's electric system." The challenges are unprecedented because until now, no one has done anything as stupid as shutting down vast quantities of reliable electric power while having no plan replace that capacity, on any timetable or at any cost.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/the-golden-age-of-coal.php
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