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Renewables cheaper than coal in Australia a preview of things to come
2013-02-08 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: I`m morbidly fascinated by the way conventional wisdom lags behind evidence, like the CW that renewable energy is expensive and fossil fuels cheap. In fact, there is a tectonic shift underway. Renewable energy prices are declining as technology improves, economies of scale kick in, financing mechanisms mature, and public policy begins to take some (inadequate) account of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the cost of coal-fired electricity is heading up. It`s getting harder to...
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China is getting serious about taming coal
2013-02-06 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The figures are pretty stunning: Chinese coal demand has been rising at about 9 percent a year for the last 12 years. By comparison, coal demand in the rest of the world has been rising at about 1 percent annually. China now burns almost half the world`s coal. Cheap coal power has been a boon to China, an engine pulling millions and millions of people out of poverty. But it has also brought nightmarish local pollution problems - which are not remaining local - and it of course threatens to tip...
Australia: Time for change: China flags peak in coal usage
2013-02-06 08:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brisbane Times: China`s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end as the leadership shifts priorities towards energy conservation, say officials and policy advisers. The advisers predict China`s coal consumption will peak at only a fraction above current levels after the State Council, or cabinet, last week set an ambitious new total energy use target for the five-year plan ending 2015. "Coal consumption will peak below 4 billion tonnes," Jiang Kejun, who led the modelling team that advised...
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White House Weighs Emissions Rules for Existing Coal Plants
2013-02-06 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama in next week's State of the Union speech will lay out a renewed effort to combat climate change that is expected to include using his authority to curb emissions from existing power plants, people who have talked to the administration about its plans said. President Barack Obama is said to be pushing for specific goals on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The action, building on a pledge in the second inaugural address, fits within Mr. Obama's larger strategy of making...
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EIA: US rail traffic reflects increase in crude oil production, decrease in coal use; coal still dominant
2013-02-05 20:30:26| Green Car Congress
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