Trump has some good ideas too. This one is great.
The US has the most coal reserves of any country in the world.
So what have we been doing to take advantage of that?
Shutting down coal fired power plants and trying to keep the coal in the ground Because of a fake climate crisis, the result of CO2 emissions from burning coal that are greening up the planet and boosting crop yields via photosynthesis by 26%.
Rescuing the planet from near CO2 starvation 100+ years ago. At 428 ppm we are still less than half of the optimal level for most life(900 ppm)
Coal, natural gas and oil are the only AUTHENTIC green energy sources!!!
For most people, what I just stated can't compute in brains that have been taught to process/interpret up=down and down=up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves
| World | 734,903 | 100% | 319,879 | 100% | 1,054,782 | 100% |
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 United States | 220,167 | 30% | 30,052 | 9.4% | 250,219 | 24% |
 Russia | 69,634 | 9.5% | 90,730 | 28.4% | 160,364 | 15% |
 Australia | 70,927 | 9.7% | 76,508 | 23.9% | 147,435 | 14% |
 China | 130,851 | 17.8% | 7,968 | 2.5% | 138,819 | 13% |
 India | 96,468 | 13.1% | 4,895 | 1.5% | 101,363 | 10% |
 Indonesia | 26,122 | 3.6% | 10,878 | 3.4% | 37,000 | 4% |
 Germany | 3 | 0% | 36,100 | 11.3% | 36,103 | 3% |
 Ukraine | 32,039 | 4.4% | 2,336 | 0.7% | 34,375 | 3% |
 Poland | 20,542 | 2.8% | 5,937 | 1.9% | 26,479 | 3% |
 Kazakhstan | 25,605 | 3.5% | 0 | 0% | 25,605 | 2% |
 Turkey | 551 | 0.1% | 10,975 | 3.4% | 11,526 | 1% |
 South Africa | 9,893 | 1.3% | 0 | 0% | 9,893 | 1% |
 New Zealand | 825 | 0.1% | 6,750 | 2.1% | 7,575 | 1% |
 Serbia | 402 | 0.1% | 7,112 | 2.2% | 7,514 | 1% |
 Brazil | 1,547 | 0.2% | 5,049 | 1.6% | 6,596 | 1% |
 Canada | 4,346 | 0.6% | 2,236 | 0.7% | 6,582 | 1% |
 Colombia | 4,881 | 0.7% | 0 | 0% | 4,881 | 0% |
 Pakistan | 207 | 0% | 2,857 | 0.9% | 3,064 | 0% |
 Vietnam | 3,116 | 0.4% | 244 | 0.1% | 3,360 | 0% |
 Hungary | 276 | 0% | 2,633 | 0.8% | 2,909 | 0% |
 Greece | 0 | 0% | 2,876 | 0.9% | 2,876 | 0% |
 Czech Republic | 110 | 0% | 2,547 | 0.8% | 2,657 | 0% |
 Mongolia | 1,170 | 0.2% | 1,350 | 0.4% | 2,520 | 0% |
 Bulgaria | 192 | 0% | 2,174 | 0.7% | 2,366 | 0% |
 Uzbekistan | 1,375 | 0.2% | 0 | 0% | 1,375 | 0% |
 Mexico | 1,160 | 0.2% | 51 | 0% | 1,211 | 0% |
 Spain | 868 | 0.1% | 319 | 0.1% | 1,187 | 0% |
 Thailand | 0 | 0% | 1,063 | 0.3% | 1,063 | 0% |
 Venezuela | 731 | 0.1% | 0 | 0% | 731 | 0% |
KillingCoal
14 responses |
Started by metmike - Nov. 21, 2021, 10:57 p.m.
Is this the market telling us that coal supplies will be increasing again? Coal prices favorable/competitive with other energy sources?
1. 1 year
2. 10 years
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal
Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
https://www.powermag.com/china-coal-fired-generation-additions-tied-to-economics-energy-security/
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China's AI Revolution Reshapes Coal Industry Profitability
By Haley Zaremba - Apr 07, 2025, 3:00 PM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Chinas-AI-Revolution-Reshapes-Coal-Industry-Profitability.html
Energy transition is a hoax
46 responses |
Started by metmike - April 15, 2023, 5:50 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94557/
There Is No Energy Transition, Just Energy Addition
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/12/there-is-no-energy-transition-just-energy-addition/
While wind and solar power are taking a larger piece out of a growing world primary energy pie, fossil fuels are expected to have more absolute growth through 2050.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/energysources.webp?fit=1063%2C573&ssl=1
Do you think that Greta Thunberg is having withdrawn symptoms after hearing what Trump did to coal?
I wonder what is going to happen to carbon credits?
thanks, cutworm!
Thats a very profound question and topic that deserves much more discussion.
i would have thought that this market would have been the first one that Musk went after to cut government waste.
However, since Tesla Has made billions from it, he has instead chosen to look the other way.
The president-elect has asked Elon Musk to wage war on regulations — some of which helped make Tesla the world’s most valuable automaker.
Tesla built Musk’s vast wealth through climate credits. Trump may end them.Elon Musk has said America is being “strangled to death” by regulations. But the billionaire’s car company, Tesla, might not have survived without them.
The electric automaker earned $10.7 billion from selling credits created by government climate programs — a total that accounted for a third of Tesla’s profits over the last decade, according to an analysis of securities filings by POLITICO’s E&E News. In the first nine months of 2024, some 43 percent of its net income came from those credits, which Tesla sold to rival carmakers after exceeding climate mandates in California and elsewhere.
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It's been 3 months now and Musk has been cutting dozens of programs that are far more worthy than this complete waste of money. But he's left it alone.
This by itself is profound evidence that Musk is more concerned about his own self interests than those of Americans. Thanks for bringing this up cutworm. I just learned something new thanks to you!
Added: the programs and markets used to regulate carbon credits are different than most others on the Musk list and this is mainly being imposed in liberal, D hold jurisdictions but he seems to have free rein with regards to going after any waste.
Hmmm I will give him till his 130 day's?are up. But I will concede to you after that. This ranks right up there as stupid s@#t.
Here's more about regulation that is all about crony capitalism and political agenda, while doing exactly ZERO to help the environment or to solve a fake climate crisis.
It's amazing what corrupt powerful people will do to manipulate markets with fraudulent schemes.
https://carboncredits.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-carbon-credits/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/carbon_credit.asp
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Even their graphic, supposedly showing CO2 pollution coming out of smoke stacks is a complete fraud.
CO2 is an odorless, INVISIBLE and beneficial gas greening up the planet.
And CO2 is a gas and a completely different substance than carbon, which is a solid.
Re: Re: Re: The Beauty of Earth
By metmike - March 3, 2025, 5:18 p.m.
Nature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature
Nature is an inherent character or constitution,[1] particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are part of nature, human activity or humans as a whole are often described as at times at odds, or outright separate and even superior to nature.[2]
During the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries, nature became the passive reality, organized and moved by divine laws.[3][4] With the Industrial Revolution, nature increasingly became seen as the part of reality deprived from intentional intervention: it was hence considered as sacred by some traditions (Rousseau, American transcendentalism) or a mere decorum for divine providence or human history (Hegel, Marx). However, a vitalist vision of nature, closer to the pre-Socratic one, got reborn at the same time, especially after Charles Darwin.[2]
Billions of years on the left.
Note above, that we owe everything to Photosynthesis:
The optimal level of the beneficial gas, CO2 for photosynthesis is around 900 parts per million for most plants and life. We are still less than half that optimal level:
Optimal CO2 for life more than double current level: See the proof with thousands of studies. Showing Scientific American.....and mainstream science sold to us........ to be wrong about plants and the affects from Climate Change. December 2020
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/62784/
Death by greening:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Anybody that uses the term "carbon pollution" for carbon dioxide is either not a scientist or is a blatantly biased scientist playing politics.
Using that term, carbon pollution is scientifically, exactly like using the term hydrogen pollution to describe water vapor/H2O in the air.
We know that a water molecule is formed from 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen. Water/H2O is neither hydrogen or oxygen. It's a totally different compound/molecule, using atoms held together by covalent bonds. It's essential for all life on this planet.
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Exactly the same with CO2/carbon dioxide. It's formed from 2 atoms of oxygen and 1 atom of carbon. It is NOT oxygen and it certainly is not the solid, carbon. It's a totally different compound/molecule, with 1 C atom, covalently bonded with 2 O atoms. It's an essential GAS! At 426 parts per million, CO2 is less than 50% of the optimal level for most life(assuming that most animals eat plants or something that ate plants).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
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Carbon is a SOLID! Many thousands of compounds have carbon atoms in them but they are NOT CARBON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon
| Carbon | |
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 Graphite (left) and diamond (right), two allotropes of carbon | |
| Allotropes | graphite, diamond and more (see Allotropes of carbon) |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compounds_with_carbon_number_1
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We know exactly why people use the ANTI science term, carbon pollution for CO2.
When you hear a source using that term or read it, you can be certain that they are either scientifically ignorant on this topic or intentionally using it to try to trick people into believing that the beneficial gas, CO2 is actually a pollutant and is bad, like black carbon or solid carbon particulate matter in the air.
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Out of the 94 naturally occurring elements on the periodic table, it’s intriguing to ponder why life predominantly hinges on carbon. With such an array of elements available, what makes carbon so special that life doesn’t gravitate towards something else?
The choice of carbon as the primary building block for life is rooted in its unique chemical and physical properties. Here are some key reasons why life is based on carbon rather than other elements:
In summary, the lightweight characteristic of carbon isn’t just a minor footnote in its resume. It might have been one of the pivotal reasons carbon played a starring role in the story of life’s origin, offering it an atmospheric arena to forge the initial pathways to life as we know it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-based_life
Thanks, baker.
I have tremendous respect for Dr.Curry. Theres nobody that sees things with more objective clarity than her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry
Judith A. Curry (born c. 1953) is an American climatologist and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include hurricanes, remote sensing, atmospheric modeling, polar climates, air-sea interactions, climate models, and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for atmospheric research. She was a member of the National Research Council's Climate Research Committee,[1] published over a hundred scientific papers, and co-edited several major works.[2] Curry retired from academia in 2017.
Coal has become price competitive again for the first time in 3+ years.
The US has much more coal than any country in the world. Over 100 years worth.
1. 1 year
2. 10 years
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal
The biggest reason to use renewables is not because of the fake climate crisis!
It's because, cheap, reliable and energy dense fossil fuels will run out some day and we need to conserve them!!!
This is the global estimate below, which is likely much too conservative.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-of-fossil-fuel-reserves-left
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/how-much-coal-is-left.php
As of December 31, 2021, estimates of total world proved recoverable reserves of coal were about 1,161 billion short tons (or about 1.16 trillion short tons), and five countries had about 75% of the world's proved coal reserves.
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THE UNITED STATES
Six states had 77% of the demonstrated reserve base (DRB) of coal as of January 1, 2023:1
Twenty six other states had the remaining 23% of the DRB.
We have some decent coal in the ground in this area of southwest Indiana.
Nuclear power is the best of all! Uranium prices.
1. 1 year-steady drop. Not sure why. Maybe more supplies?
2. 10 years- Falling to previous high which will act as support.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uranium
By Felicity Bradstock - Mar 08, 2025, 10:00 AM CST
https://www.statista.com/chart/22405/nuclear-powers-share-of-total-electricity-generation/
https://www.statista.com/chart/20750/number-of-operational-reactor-units-by-country/
https://www.statista.com/chart/28805/mean-age-of-nuclear-reactor-fleets-in-selected-countries/
https://www.statista.com/chart/33730/projected-and-currently-operating-nuclear-capacity/
https://www.statista.com/chart/28808/number-of-nuclear-programs-share-of-nuclear-energy-production/
Sources for news on coal:
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The Department of the Interior has reaffirmed its commitment to the Trump administration’s goal of AmericanEnergyDominance with a renewed focus on coal.
Through an Executive Order by President Donald J. Trump, the Department will implement a series of bold policy moves and regulatory reforms to position coal as a cornerstone of the nation’s energy strategy by ensuring federally managed lands remain open and accessible for responsible energy development.
Department of the Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, said:
“The Golden Age is here, and we are starting to ‘Mine, Baby, Mine’ for clean American coal. Interior is unlocking America’s full potential in energy dominance and economic development to make life more affordable for every American family, while showing the world the power of America’s natural resources and innovation.”
In support of the Trump administration's pursuit of Energy Dominance, the Department is actively working to revitalise the coal mining industry through a series of decisive actions. By expanding access to coal reserves, such as the recent approval of the Spring Creek mine expansion in Montana, and streamlining permitting processes, the administration is removing long-standing regulatory barriers that have undermined American coal production. These efforts support high-paying mining jobs and rural economies, while strengthening US energy independence by reducing reliance on foreign energy sources. Coal is a critical component of a secure, stable, and diversified American energy portfolio.
Ending the coal leasing moratorium
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Just a reminder that metmike is an environmentalist. Wind farms are ANTI environmental, FAKE green energy!
The real environmental crisis's
31 responses |
Started by metmike - April 10, 2019, 7:11 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/
