Category: #Energyreality
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Thoughts on Primary Energy and the Way the World Really Works
The Developed world and the Developing countries depend on energy to run. Developing countries need reliable PRIMARY Energy to progress from muscle power to machines and the Developed countries, including China and India require lots of reliable primary energy to sustain their quality of life. I am one of the few people who focus on…
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Perceptions vs. Reality
If it was simply the laws of Physics, Economics and Global Experiences of which source of Bulk Power was Best; then coal power plants would be on order by the hundreds. How can we fix the poor perceptions of coal power? Here are my thoughts. Energy Powers Life as We Know It America runs on…
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Pros and Cons of Renewable and Conventional Electricity Generation in the Red State of S.C., Part 2
President Trump and Lee Zeldin have done their part at the Federal level to restore energy policy rationality and sanity to the U.S. However, the Deep Swamp and numerous states still have laws that are roadblocks to installing new Dispatchable, Reliable and Affordable coal power plants. Here are my thoughts on this irrationality
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The Real Problem With American Energy Policy
This post will be short and to the point. Myself and many of my energy experienced friends have watched as absolutely anti-American, anti-Human energy polices have come to be. My friend Tom cut through the BS and wrote the following as a response to the Daily Caller article which documented Chinese involvement in NGOs impacting…
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Pros and Cons of Conventional and Renewables Electricity Generation In the Red State of South Carolina, Part 1
Background: Bulk Power Supply in the S.C. Lowcountry The wholesale (Bulk Power) electricity providers serving our region are Santee-Cooper (officially the South Carolina Public Service Authority, or SCPSA) and Dominion Energy (which replaced South Carolina Electric & Gas as the Investor-Owned Utility). Most of Palmetto Electric’s Bulk Power comes from Santee-Cooper. Santee-Cooper is a state-owned agency operating since the…
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The Importance of Coal, Part 2: Coal Power in the Rest of the World
Coal power in America remains important and I wrote on that last week. This is a followup to provide an overview of the importance of coal as a form of primary energy in the rest of the world. The key phrase is Primary Energy. Ron Stein and Nancy Perlman wrote an excellent article on the…
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One Hundred Twenty Quadrillion BTUs and The Need for Coal to Provide at Least 20 Quads of America’s Primary Energy-Part 1
Coal fuel should be included in the future electricity generation portfolio based on the laws of physics, available forms of primary energy, proven economics of electric power generation and the proven track record of coal power for providing reliable, dispatchable and affordable electricity generation. The CO2 Coalition’s Angela Wheeler interviewed me for the CO2 Coalitions…
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Advantages Of Coal Fuel for Electricity Generation
It is now officially winter. I think this is an appropriate time to review eleven advantages of coal fuel for electric power generation. Coal is Proven because it provided nearly 50% of America’s electricity generation up till about 2012. The peak year for coal production was 2008 when America produced over 1 billion tons of…
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Energy, Electricity and the Economy
This is a new blog site to replace dickstormprobizblog.org. The purpose of this is to make the title more clearly related with the posted content. The name of the site was chosen from the blog used by the late Mr. Donn Dears who wrote over 1600 blog posts and numerous books on this subject. Mr.…
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Reality of 32,000 MW/Year of New Generation Demand. Solution: Build New Coal Plants Now!
Bulk Power Supply & Primary Energy: The term BULK POWER means just that, Bulk Power in hundreds and thousands of Megawatts. America needs huge Bulk Power generation additions of about 30,000 MW per year, not small scale R&D projects of variable generation or unproven new SMRs. Perhaps some time in the future renewables and new…
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