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Australian thermal coal mine aims for Q4 restart on supply deal – ET Auto

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Surging prices for coal last year have led to some new coal mines ramping up after the war in Ukraine exacerbated a supply shortage brought on by growing reluctance from climate conscious investors to funding new fossil fuel projects. In March it had said it expected to restart in the second half of 2023.

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Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

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The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now “ the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China ”. in 2006) but if they are replaced by EVs, the contribution would rise to 2-4%.

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Berkeley Lab releases 8th edition of databook on China’s energy and environment; finding the “missing” energy consumption

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They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal.

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Surprise Natural Gas Drawdown Signals Higher Prices Ahead

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The reduction of 6 billion cubic feet (Bcf) was the first summertime drawdown since 2006. The US is and has been in the midst of an epochal transition from coal-fired electricity to natural gas and renewables, a switch that will take many more years to play out. Original article: [link].

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The influencer

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2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. But Cox stayed true to the EV cause, and in 2006, when he heard news of the Tesla Roadster, he was immediately attentive. Impacting the EV scene for 3 decades. His interest grew deeper when he was an officer in the U.S. “Not Not to be totally scooped, the LA Times jumped in right away.”

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PHEV Blowback

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As someone who has been enthusiastically watching and promoting plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, I was concerned that the headline of an article in USA Today (“Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution,” Feb. Soot particles can make it hard to breathe, especially for asthmatics. Here is the NRDC's response to the story.

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Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

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Initial areas of application for the Materials Genome are in energy storage, photovoltaics and photocatalysis, thermoelectrics, and mercury adsorption from high temperature coal gasification. For the paper on phosphates, Ceder and his group obtained their set of known compounds from the 2006 ICSD database. Earlier post.)

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