Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2026-05-11 07:41:37

The dirty chunks are back, baby: “Global coal imports in May are expected to be more than 464,000 tonnes, the third highest monthly coal imports on record.” FT.com
Well, #coal has never been in decline. We have never had a #transition.

Cover image of an article of the Financial times: Coal shipments jumps as countries seek alternatives to disrupted gas supplies. A digger below

Impressive graph by Our World in Data on the growth of absolute energy production (corrected for inefficiencies even), showing that's it's always and only been up and up for everything. This has also been stressed by Fressoz in the book "More and more and more". Even the production and consumption of wood has never vanished