Category — Coal
W. S. Jevons (1865) on Coal (Memo to Obama, Part III)
Each renewable energy, Jevons explained, was either too scarce or too unreliable for the new industrial era. The energy savior was coal, a concentrated, plentiful, storable, and transportable source of energy that was England’s bounty for the world.
There was no going back to renewables. Coal–and that included oil and gas manufactured from coal–was the new master of the master resource of energy in the 18th and 19th centuries. As Jevons stated in the introduction (p. viii) of The Coal Question (1865): [Read more →]
January 31, 2009 4 Comments
Dynegy, Coal, and Two Takes at the Houston Chronicle
Today’s Houston Chronicle has two takes on the recent decision by hometown Dynegy to pull back from participating in the construction of new coal plants and concentrate on expanding capacity at its existing plants. [Read more →]
January 11, 2009 3 Comments
