Kudos to you and Joseph Fournier, David. It turns out the media made getting coal in one's stocking a bad thing, just as they lie about everything else relating to energy.
Yep, as a power engineer for 45 years all over the world I couldn’t agree more. Net Zero is a joke and an unnecessary to begin with. All we need to power the world is gas turbines and nuclear, both of which are manageable 24/7 in any kind of weather!
So true! I particularly enjoyed the comment about the so called “fiction” of primary energy. You couldn’t make up such stupidity. It is, quite simply, mind boggling that anyone could utter such nonsense. That it gets repeated by know nothings in the media, academia, and all of their brainwashed students reminds me of Howard Stern’s great line: The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Kudos to you and Joseph Fournier, David. It turns out the media made getting coal in one's stocking a bad thing, just as they lie about everything else relating to energy.
This makes me so happy! More CO2 into the atmosphere! That's my motto.
Yep, as a power engineer for 45 years all over the world I couldn’t agree more. Net Zero is a joke and an unnecessary to begin with. All we need to power the world is gas turbines and nuclear, both of which are manageable 24/7 in any kind of weather!
So true! I particularly enjoyed the comment about the so called “fiction” of primary energy. You couldn’t make up such stupidity. It is, quite simply, mind boggling that anyone could utter such nonsense. That it gets repeated by know nothings in the media, academia, and all of their brainwashed students reminds me of Howard Stern’s great line: The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Green Industrial Community: Necessity is a mother.
For us who are energy savvy in the big picture but not so much in the micro:
How is 2% growth = 175 million tonnes" of new coal create "an additional 640 million tonnes
of CO2 emissions", 4 X the physical increase in coal itself?.
"Of course" is not the words I would use.
Asking for a friend...
Chemistry.
Coal is almost pure carbon atoms.
CO2 is one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms.
The one carbon atom comes from the coal; the two oxygen atoms come from the air in which the coal is burned.
So burning coal adds the weight of two oxygen atoms for every carbon atom with which you started.
Carbon has a relative weight of 12. Oxygen has a relative weight of 16.
So if you burn 12 pounds of carbon/coal, you end up with 12 + 16 + 16 = 44 pounds of CO2.
(175 / 12) * 44 = 641.7