Energy security-China
Tokyo | China says it will increase coal production in the next three years as it seeks to insulate itself from global energy shortages and rising prices by bolstering its reserves of commodities.
China’s state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, said while China would continue to invest heavily in wind and solar, annual coal production would rise to 4.6 billion tonnes in 2025 compared to 4.1 billon tonnes last year.
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Energy Insecurity-United States
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48696
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Coal Report
U.S. coal production totaled 535 million short tons (MMst) in 2020, a 24% decrease from the 706 MMst mined in 2019 and the lowest level of coal production in the United States in any year since 1965.
The insane thing about this is that the US has more coal reserves than any country by a wide margin(24%):
THAT's where the most of our energy security is! Many thousands of times more energy than what's in the SPR!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves
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KillingCoal
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Started by metmike - Nov. 21, 2021, 10:57 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/78168/
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metmike: The real green energy are fossil fuels greening up the planet with beneficial CO2. Fossil fuels are their own battery. Fake green energy is NOT clean energy!
Our clean energy needs to be sourced responsibly right from the get-go.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/renewable-energy-dirty-mining/
Mineral extraction levies an incredible cost on the communities and ecological landscape of a place. Material mined for renewable energy fuels the violation of human rights, pollutes local water sources, and often destroys wildlife.
metmike: Diffuse and intermittent fake green energy sources, like wind, the energy source from environmental hell killing millions of birds/bats are advancing rapidly using crony capitalism and governmental funded support that steals tax payers money and discourages reliable fossil fuels. The need for massive batteries to store these energy sources is raping the earth with massive mining plays tearing up many times more of the planet than fossil fuels. Destroying ecosystems and landscapes.
Saving the planet? From what?
We're having a climate optimum that's greening up the planet BECAUSE OF the increase in CO2 from burning fossil fuels.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Wind turbines and fake green energy is what's wrecking the planet.
https://www.masterresource.org/droz-john-awed/25-industrial-wind-energy-deceptions/
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/89748/#89749
Time to rethink this insanity!
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88832/#89156
Energy Insecurity Germany(Europe) = Renewables
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88331/#88344
How could this have happened? Nobody will acknowledge this part of the reason, but I will show it to you right now.
Several things made Europe vulnerable but the biggest one was very self inflicted bad decisions to eliminate coal and not fully understanding/planning responsibly for the huge reliability issues of fake green energy schemes.
The graph below depicts what happened.
Lignite, is just "soft" coal.
You can see from the graph that 30 years ago, Germany relied on coal (soft and hard) and nuclear to generate the VAST majority of its power/electricity.
Those sources (coal/nuclear) are at the top for the most reliable of all. ..... 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
At the same time, in the early 1990's, they were only using a minuscule amount of renewables to generate energy and not much natural gas, much of which is delivered by pipeline from Russia in 2022.
This was their self inflicted bad decision:
They cut their use of extremely reliable sources(coal/nuclear) down by 50% and replaced the void with extremely unreliable sources of massive renewables (wind/solar) which was increased by 10X compared to 30 years ago and natural gas by 2X from Russia.
They did it entirely because burning coal emits CO2. They did it to meet commitments in the fake climate crisis accord. This was a self inflicted decision based entirely on the politics of the fake climate crisis.
Now, they have to back track because of the laws of energy and physics in the real world. Those laws are indisputable and make it impossible to ever replace fossil fuels with just wind and solar.
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts
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https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/88331/#88332
The cost of electricity has surged to record highs across Europe this week, following a meteoric rise in natural gas prices that could pave the way for painfully high consumer rates across the continent through the winter and well beyond.
Electricity futures across much of the continent jumped above 600 euros/MWh this week, an exponential gain from the roughly 20-30 euros/MWh average over the last decade. In a note on Wednesday, Rystad Energy analysts wrote that records have been broken on an hourly and daily basis throughout the month.
“Should the current trend continue, then winter power prices will be punishing for European consumers large and small,” said Rystad analyst Fabian Rønningen. German and French power prices hit fresh highs Thursday
The European power crisis has been gaining momentum throughout the summer. French nuclear availability issues, depleted hydro reservoirs due to drought and declining output at aging nuclear and coal plants have exacerbated the situation along with low wind output.
Analysts at Engie EnergyScan said this week that fundamentals are unlikely to change anytime soon given hot forecasts, calm weather conditions further curbing wind and the anxiety gripping the market over whether Russia will further cut deliveries next month. The situation has grown so dire that European energy ministers are again reportedly considering an emergency summit to address the snowballing crisis.
I would never have believed this could happen........ except that this is one of the risks for what can happen when you too quickly abandon the power dense, reliable fossil fuels(in his case coal) and follow fairy tale, fake green energy schemes.
Putin made it worse (because they refused to negotiate with him or concede anything to him last year) but this was mostly self inflicted renewable energy insecurity damage.
