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"Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe"
#Ireland #FossilFuels #Coal

Ireland Shuts Last Coal Plant, Becomes 15th Coal-Free Country in Europe
According to Beyond Fossil Fuels, Ireland joins Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, and the UK, who have already stopped using coal.

Ireland officially coal free thanks to renewables, not LNG.
*cough* #bcpoli
https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/114749936492998044

“A cautionary history: In 1999, the US coal industry claimed that information technology would need half the nation’s electricity by 2020, so a strong economy required far more coal-fired power stations. Such claims were spectacularly wrong but widely believed, even by top officials. Hundreds of unneeded power plants were built, hurting investors. Despite that costly lesson, similar dynamics are now unfolding again.”
- Amory
“It’s all about design.”
- Me

Electronic conduction in copper-graphene composites with functional impurities
Kishor Nepal, Ridwan Hussein, Yahya Al-Majali, David Drabold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20912

Electronic conduction in copper-graphene composites with functional impurities
Coal-derived graphene-like material and its addition to FCC copper are investigated using ab initio plane wave density functional theory (DFT). We explore ring disorder in the sp2 carbon, and functional impurities such as oxides (-O), and hydroxides (-OH) that are common in coal-derived graphene. The electronic density of states analysis revealed localized states near the Fermi level, with functional groups contributing predominantly to states below the Fermi level, while carbon atoms in non-he…

Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (Blathnaid O'Dea/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/20/ireland-coal-free-ends-coal-power-generation-moneypoint/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p124#a250620p124

The FT has consistently excellent climate coverage. This one is a bit of a depressing read, but also enlightening.
It's quite clear that the vast majority of growth in coal use is in Asia, mostly China and India, and it more than offsets the shrinking use of coal in Europe and the Americas.
My great grandfather died after a coal mining accident, my kids don't even really know what coal is. I have to hope that the trajectory away from coal will be accelerated in Asia compared to Europe.
Why the world cannot quit coal - https://on.ft.com/3SYaxN5 via @FT

#Norway is ending #coal #mining

"Turning closed coal mines into solar farms could power a country the size of Germany, report finds"
#Germany #CoalMine #SolarPower

Report reveals huge solar power potential of abandoned coal mines
“The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.

There's an NGO in #Indonesia that has been happy to speak with me about #Japan or #WorldBank funding for #coal or

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe cutsey little corporate memphis instagram shoutouts to those men first and we owe nothing to their families if they die

"As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas"
#China #FossilFuels #Renewables #Energy…

As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas

EPA sued over rollbacks on toxic metal emission standard for coal plants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/epa-sued-over-rollbacks-on-toxic-metal-emission-standard-for-coal-plants/

It's funny how these old closed down coal power plants are coming back online since PJM won't allow crypto mining onto the electric grid. Solar farms are popping up all over (confused because they could do so much better in other places than where it's cloudier than Seattle), but they aren't allowed to connect because a national company forgot to obtain a permit by some hillbilly township with a population of 3.

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
From: @…

Decarbonizing Mongolia's Energy Sector: A Techno-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Energy Solutions
Otgonpurev Nergui, Dhammawit Paisiripas, Munkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15749

Decarbonizing Mongolia's Energy Sector: A Techno-Economic Analysis of Hybrid Energy Solutions
To achieve carbon neutrality and enhance energy security, Mongolia is exploring a transition toward hybrid energy solutions integrating small modular reactors (SMRs) and renewable energy sources. This study assesses the feasibility of a grid-connected hybrid energy system that combines coal, solar photovoltaic (PV), wind turbines, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and SMRs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy reliability.

Why is the #MAGA #47 undercutting his Secretary of Health's #MAHA goals of eliminating exposure to toxins?
An emergency executive order requiring coal plants to keep running. Plants that everywhere besides #47s…

Why is the #MAGA #47 undercutting his Secretary of Health's #MAHA goals of eliminating exposure to toxins?
An emergency executive order requiring coal plants to keep running. Plants that everywhere besides #47s…

China’s ultra-high-voltage transmission reduced coal use and air pollution, improved health https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004967 @…

"White House moves to keep costly, dirty, unneeded Michigan coal plants open"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Daughter just completed a course at school in Britain in the 70s. Don’t say you don’t learn anything in a humanities degree. That’s just what you would want to study to understand the conditions in the US as it’s empire falls into terminal decline and economy fails. Queue the coal strikes.

This is at times more of a New York story than a Pizza story but still it is quite fun to listen to. Dan Pashman of The Sporkful talks to Patsy and Carol Grimaldi. Though I have to say my chin dropped somewhat when I understood that this legend of New York Pizza is cooked in a coal oven.
The Sporkful: Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)

Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)
Dan sits down with Patsy and his wife Carol to discuss slice folding technique, and the scourge of pineapple pizza.

"Nigel Farage’s pitch for Welsh elections: bring back coalmining"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #FossilFuels

It's incredible that the Alberta Premier continues to claim a pipeline to the Northwest (Prince Rupert) is possible. Premier Eby was not there because he was in the middle of a pre-planned trip to Asia (Japan, South Korea, Malaysia). And he said today there won't be any reconsideration of another oil pipeline, "decarbonzed" or not. And Japan has no interest in heavy oil anyway.
"But Eby continued to pour cold water on other premiers' talk of building another oil pipeline across B.C. to the coast, saying there is already the taxpayer-owned Trans Mountain Pipeline, which is not being used to full capacity.
He added that the Japanese don't want heavy oil and thermal coal. And he has not altered his stance against lifting the heavy oil tanker ban on B.C.'s North Coast.”
#CanPoli #ABPoli #SKPoli #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Memes #StarWars