News & Articles on Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels ares not renewable, obviously. They are listed here for organizational reasons. I don’t write about fossil fuels–as a rule. However, fossil fuels and those who promote them are not going away quietly. Thus, I felt it necessary to include the topic to distinguish articles that are not about nuclear power or renewable energy.
On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming
By
Benjamin Franta
But I would […] like to mention another reason why we probably have to look for additional fuel supplies. And this, strangely, is the question of contaminating the atmosphere. [….] Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide. [….] The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it?
Keeping coal plants open: the Spanish government’s costly intervention in the power market
By
Gerard Wynn and Paolo Coghe
Spain’s proposal on 13 November to give the government a veto on power plant closures is an extreme example of power market interventions in Europe, which is already burdened with capacity payments to prop up gas, coal and nuclear power. The U.S. is seeing similar interventions with the Trump government’s recently proposed “grid reliability” payments to coal and nuclear power.
SaskPower’s carbon capture future hangs in the balance
By
Joelle Seal
he fate of carbon capture and storage in Saskatchewan is coming to a crucial decision point. SaskPower and the provincial government must soon decide the future of the technology in Saskatchewan, as two units at Boundary Dam must either be retired or retrofitted to capture carbon by 2020.
Enough tiptoeing around. Let’s make this clear: coal kills people
By
Tim Hollo
Burning more coal, knowing what we know, is a deliberate act of arson. We must urgently come to grips with this fact and reconnect with nature and our communities.
Comments by Bernard Saulnier on the Book Energy Democracy
By
Paul Gipe
In response to my review of Energy Democracy, a new book on Germany’s energy revolution by Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann, long-time colleague Bernard Saulnier contacted me with his thoughts.
Energy Democracy, by Craig Morris & Arne Jungjohann: A Review
By
Paul Gipe
Is one of the most powerful books on the renewable energy revolution in decades. It’s a chronicle of the remarkable transformation underway in the world’s fourth-largest industrial economy.
