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Weekend Energy Absurdity: Record Coal Demand Illustrates The Abject Failure of Energy Transition Politics
David Blackmon
6 min ago

Weekend Energy Absurdity: Record Coal Demand Illustrates The Abject Failure of Energy Transition Politics.

ZeroHedge details the fact that global coal demand reached all-time highs during 2021, as countries like China and India continue to build new coal plants and ignore the goals and edicts agreed to at the various annual climate conferences staged by Western elites.

The world’s coal-fired generators produced a record 10,244 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2021 surpassing the previous record of 10,098 TWh set in 2018 (“Statistical review of world energy”, BP, July 2022).

Coal-fuelled generation is on course to set an even higher record in 2022 as generators in Europe and Asia minimise the use of expensive gas following Russia’s invasion and U.S. and EU sanctions imposed in response.

By contrast, mine output was still fractionally below the record set between 2012 and 2014 because older and less efficient coal generators have been replaced by newer and more efficient ones needing less fuel per kilowatt.

Global coal mine production was 8,173 million tonnes in 2021 compared with 8,180-8,256 million per year between 2012 and 2014.

Despite the efforts by Western elites and heads of international bodies like the UN and IEA to push the transition with their incessant stream of climate alarm propaganda, governments outside the West’s narrative bubble continue to make it very clear that they have no intention of sharing the pain of economic suicide that is taking place in the U.S., Canada and the E.U. China and India have no intention of following the example set by neighboring Sri Lanka, whose high ESG-scoring climate policies led it straight off the cliff this year, collapsing both its economy and its government in the process.

Like it or not, developing and developed nations in Asia, Africa and South America still understand the need for abundant supplies of affordable energy, and no fuel fits that bill quite as fully as Old King Coal.

Cleaning up the climate should not be a suicide pact.
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