Big fossil fuel spending a lot to defend their profits. Good news is that once they are broken, they loose influence.

The list includes:

• Germany’s emissions hit 70-year low as it reduces reliance on coal => 4-months ago
• Germany primary energy consumption drops by 9.0% and emissions by 11% in Q1-3 compared to 2022 => 6-months ago
• German Primary Energy Consumption drops by 7% in first half of 2023 compared to 2022 => 9-months ago

The reason for that is a bunch of coal power plants being kept on the grid to keep the grid stable due to a cut of gas supply from Russia. However a fairly large drop in general electricity consumption, meant that coal electricity generation dropped massively. Also 8 wind turbines are a rounding error for a country like Germany and are easily made up for with new ones built in other locations. So as the Guardian states in the first link:

while coal’s share dropped to 26% from 34%, according to the federal network agency.

With resurgence you mean 33.2% drop in electricity generation from coal between 2022 and 2023 and shutting down 15 coal power plants this year already? Cause that is what is actually happening.

With carbon pricing it becomes more attractive. Otherwise it has no chance.

It is the most realistic way of making steel without fossil fuels. Also when you use fossil gas to make steel, you first crack it into hydrogen. That part of the process works very well and on scale. The only really important thing is to make hydrogen in a green way and that is difficult.

Between 2012 and 2022 electricity generation from coal has gone down from 2400TWh to 1427TWh for the G7. Most of that comes down to the US, Japan and Germany in that order.The UK and France have basicaly no coal left, besides some rarely running plants and Italy and Canada do exit coal a bit slowler, but do not have too much left anymore.

To look a bit closer. The US has the inflation reduction act and is building out renewables at record pace, while gas is killing coal in most places. The speed in decline is rather rapid. Japan has closed down its nuclear power plants after Fukushima, but is restarting them about now, so a decline in coal consumption is possible. Germany did phase out all its nuclear power plants until last year, but still managed to have a decline in coal electricity generation, due to building out renewables fairly quickly. This means that should go even faster.

So yeah, this might happen. Japan is the one to watch though. It really does not built much clean energy these days.

Great to hear that Japan is phasing out coal.

It looks really great. Implemented policies are for nearly stable emissions. Better then growth for sure, but still not even close to enough.

Israel seems to have a plan. By causing massive fighting in the Middle East, a huge part of the worlds oil and gas supply can be cut off. Bombing the Iranian consulate was a great plan. Unfortunatly it is backfiring. Biden being a fool tries to exchange the invasion of Rafah and with that that the full genocide of the people in Gaza for not fighting Iran. That might mean that it backfires and Trump gets elected. Foolish of him presidents who start wars get reelected.

Scotland had a 49.9% reduction in 2021. So why is is stalling?

Idk supplying Ukraine with long range drones, to strike Russian oil infrastructre would be a good idea.

Obviously they are! He was socially responsible and got arrested by the police using the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 201.

Conrail was taken over by the US government to be privatized as quickly as possible. That is really not the kind of nationalization you want for a railway. It is basically just government support for the private sector.

or you just nationalize the railways

So the Republicans believe that Biden would exchange climate change, which is an issue many of his potential voters care about a lot with aid for Ukraine, which nobody really cares about in the US? Especially after they blocked US aid for a tougher border deal. Seems more like he wants the Republicans to spell out, that they are much more pro fossil fuels then he is for the more left leaning voters.

Then again I have no idea about US politics.

Sure, but LNG is more expensive then pipeline gas and Europe has some reserves in Norway and gas pipelines to Northern Africa, Central Asia and somewhat the Middle East. That means as soon as Russian gas supply becomes zero, the US LNG supply to Europe is going to decrease.

There is also a lot of gas storage in the EU, which is meant mainly to work for the seasonal demand changes coming from heating with gas. Since wind is stronger in the North Sea region in winter, that means besides some non windy days, peaker plants will be used less and less. Grid sized battery storage and better grids are really being deployed relativly quickly, so that should fall as well. The big question is how quickly gas consumption is going to decline as most European countries focus more on shutting down coal power plants.

Canada consumes more primary energy from renewables per capita, then the UK consumes primary energy of all forms per capita. Canada has to lower energy consumption to a reasonable level and it is going to be fine.

There is a fairly strong network around. Basically able to transport freight throughout the EUs core on inland waterwasy. However:

The vote was on restoring 20% of the EUs most damaged landscapes until 2035. This is impossible to do with a small little garden.

Yes, you can get it on the right site under exports as an .csv file