/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>58387956
Yes, my pro-coal attitudes is because I love my career -- and I believe in coal. I got out of investing months ago, at least stock investments, and now just buy PMs.

>>58372188
>Climate change interests like those at the united nations COP28 are wanting to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. The US is part of the COP28.
I hope they do triple nuclear energy production by 2050 -- and at least double thermal coal production by that time (on a global scale, of course, since the West hates it -- yet it's setting new production records globally every year). And I hope the world is using much more natural gas by then too.
The more energy humanity uses, the better lives we'll live.

Good news for Utah thermal coal miners!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rocky-mountain-power-now-plans-041000864.html

Coal-fired power plants expected to operate until 2042 (and by that time, coal should be back in style).

>>58230988
Miners deserve a national holiday, and people can work on holidays -- for extra pay even (at least sometimes).
Why the fuck have a holiday for MLK but not for miners? Let alone Juneteenth?
I am what you might call a Blue Collar Supremacist. It's not an idea system I hold, more like just a gut instinct from upbringing. When I see businessmen in suits, I assume even their skin smells weird. They just don't seem right to me, like real people.
Real, skilled workers are real people and human beings, particularly White and Asian ones.

Oil and gas are no friends of coal, but would be fine with coal being phased out. Trump served oil and gas very well, but not coal -- not at all. Oil and gas are much bigger industries than coal with a much bigger political footprint; they are also far less vilified.

>The pulse among many oil-and-gas executives here is different. In their telling, the energy transition will include growing production of oil and natural gas. Renewable technologies like solar power will continue to expand but not enough to stop fossil fuels from expanding, too. “We’ll bring the molecule solution set, and others are bringing the electron solution set,” ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods told the conference in the opening hours (oil and gas move as molecules, electricity as electrons). “I’m not suggesting one is better than the other. I’m suggesting we need both.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oil-gas-industry-wants-energy-174036641.html

Oil and gas executives are now arguing that "renewable energy" will supply the electrons while oil and gas will supply the molecules in the supposed energy transition that's taking place.
Coal has an uphill battle to maintain even just its current market share in the electron market against its main rival, natural gas.

>>57928513
The main Vaclav Smil books I remember reading were "Inventing the Twentieth Century," "Transforming the Twentieth Century," and "Energy and Civilization."
That last one also helped launch my adult interest in coal and energy sources in general.

>>57524747
Thanks lol