…graphite, and making synthetic graphite requires transporting huge volumes of feeder stock like coal tar or petroleum coke, which are by-products of steel production and oil refining. You can’t use trucks to…

…problem. See, Santa Claus is in charge of gift giving and not the markets. He allocates goods (presents and coal) according to who has been good and who has been…

…Climate Change in 1956. Since at least then, we have known enough to know that we needed to begin to act. Since the 1960s, big oil and big coal (aka…

…coal. Welcome to the Industrial Revolution, an exponential increase in wealth, and the beginning of climate chaos. In 1800, 95 per cent of Britain’s energy came from coal; at the…

– by New Deal democrat My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to red hot to…

…to rescind regulations limiting coal development. He even ordered federal agencies to stop considering the economic damage caused by coal and other carbon emissions when writing regulations. And he’s doing…

…planner problem. See, Santa Claus is in charge of gift giving and not the markets. He allocates goods (presents and coal) according to who has been good and who has…

…Osborn. Running in West Virgina is grandson of a coal miner and veteran Zach Shrewsbury against coal baron Jim Justice. Some down to earth populist candidates being fielded against the…

From a Department of Energy report entitled Revolution… Now; The Future Arrives for Five Clean Energy Technologies – 2016 Update a nifty graph: (click to embiggen) If the graph is…

…situations. One of them concerns clean water, which most of us have certainly taken for granted, and in a way that is naive (to people who do not have access…