Coal use keeps setting new records

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/18/coal-use-keeps-setting-new-world-records

by thinkcontext

8 comments

  1. Sad. Hopefully renewables continue their exponential growth another 4 or 5 years. We should be hammering coal downward at that point.

  2. The answer to this is simple. Put a carbon price on all goods and services imported from China and India. Their economies and demand for energy are growing purely because of demand for their services.

  3. The new estimate is that peak coal will happen in 2027. I wonder if that will slip further with the hunger for AI data centers.

  5. And when it is ALL used up, and the sun turns as black as sackcloth, and the wind quits blowing, we will FREEZE to death.

  7. We should be happy to see some coal use, it’s burning produces SO4 which cools the earth by blocking the sun. We in the US think methane/natural gas is cleaner and have transitioned or should I say replaced coal burning with methane burning. But when you factor leakage of methane, which is far more potent than CO2, it is just as bad as coal, but without the SO4 which helps cool. Oops, the oil and gas industry has lied to us again.

  8. This was always going to happen. Anyone who doesn’t believe this or thinks it’s just one year away from a decline just isn’t a serious person when considering the situation. China HAS NEVER slowed down building coal plants. India won’t either. It’s cute when one coal plant in Texas closes and people say SEE!

    The US is 3 percent of the worlds population. China and India are more than a third of it. Those folks are striving for a middle class life, that means electricity. China is trying to electrify their personal transportation sector. They want their own AI and data centers. How anyone can think that’s happening without massive amounts of coal is beyond me.

    Decades of massive coal use are still in front of us.

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