Category Archives for Europe
Germany increasing coal
Amidst the Energiewende-based push to close nuclear plants and build increasing amounts of renewables to power German energy needs, Germans are looking more and more to coal to provide their electricity. As this RealClearEnergy.com article notes, German wind power sat essentially … Continue reading
UK wind gets diesel backup
This article would be amusing if it weren’t so insanely expensive and so completely unnecessary. UK power generators should simply go back to affordable, abundant, reliable, and increasingly clean coal. Thousands of dirty diesel generators are being secretly prepared all … Continue reading
UK windfarm shelved due to environmental impacts
Three and a half years of planning and over £10m in investments on a £1.5bn UK wind farm have been tossed out due to concerns over cumulative environmental impacts associated with wind developments in the area of the proposed development. … Continue reading
Global Warming Policy Foundation: “Why Wind Power is so Expensive”
A March 2012 report by the UK-based Global Warming Policy Foundation is taking renewable energy to task, claiming that in addition to causing its own share of environmental damage, wind energy “is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing … Continue reading
UK: Opposition to wind growing
Opposition to UK-based wind farms is growing rapidly. The Guardian is now reporting that opposition to wind power in Wales is “total.” Opposition to wind power in rural Wales is said to be “total”, with communities threatening peaceful direct action … Continue reading
“Renewal” needed in climate movement
The Guardian has published an interesting editorial by climate change activist and direct action campaigner Bradley Day. In his editorial, Day describes how the jury in a recent court case found him and a group of 19 other defendants guilty … Continue reading
Wind calm when energy most needed
Interesting Telegraph article that shows how wind generation was unable to produce energy when UK customers needed it most earlier this month. And … when they couldn’t rely on renewables, they had to return to secure, reliable, and affordable coal. … Continue reading
Breaking: Hadley computers allegedly hacked – exposing warming “conspiracy”
Trying to read through the many emails and stories on this issue this morning. I’ll be updating this post as I go along. At first blush, it appears that servers at the Hadley CRU — NOTE: this Realclimate.org posting notes … Continue reading
Let’s not “give up on coal”
The Democrat Herald has a good editorial describing just how badly the latest Sierra Club anti-coal push misses the mark. Hasso Hering, (the author) describes how simple things like the fact that there’s no coal at Oregon State University appear … Continue reading
May 2 – EIA Spot Prices
Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/page/coalnews/coalmar.html
| The following average spot coal prices appear in the graphic below, for the previous and most recent weeks: (Dollars per Short Ton) |
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| Week Ended | Central Appalachia 12,500 Btu, 1.2 SO2 |
Northern Appalachia 13,000 Btu, <3.0 SO2 |
Illinois Basin 11,800 Btu, 5.0 SO2 |
Powder River Basin 8,800 Btu, 0.8 SO2 |
Uinta Basin 11,700 Btu, 0.8 SO2 |
| 28-Mar-08 | $85.80 | $110.00 | $52.00 | $14.55 | $40.00 |
| 04-Apr-08 | $86.25 | $100.00 | $52.00 | $14.25 | $44.00 |
| 11-Apr-08 | $86.25 | $100.00 | $56.00 | $14.20 | $44.00 |
| 18-Apr-08 | $86.25 | $105.00 | $56.00 | $14.20 | $44.00 |
| 25-Apr-08 | $94.25 | $105.00 | $57.00 | $14.15 | $44.00 |
| 02-May-08 | $94.25 | $105.00 | $58.00 | $14.20 | $44.00 |
