{"id":438,"date":"2010-04-08T18:54:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:23:30","slug":"slate-and-other-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Slate and other thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate magazine<\/a> has been running a series on ideas for efficient energy usage.\u00a0 The latest installment is here<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s all good, clean fun and all useful stuff.<\/p>\n

But then we have the West Virginia mine disaster and everybody assures us that coal will be needed for, oh, ever<\/em> to make sure we have “cheap” energy.<\/p>\n

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West Virginia, April 8, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

It happens elsewhere as well – China of course, and Turkey:<\/p>\n

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China, Nov 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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Turkey, Feb 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

At the other end of the world a coal bulk carrier, hauling the stuff from booming Australia to booming China runs onto the Great Barrier Reef.\u00a0 It was 10 (or something like that) miles of course.\u00a0 What are “they” thinking?\u00a0 Why the hell is a bulk carrier even using the inside passage?\u00a0 Without a pilot?\u00a0 Why don’t they route the bloody things a hundred miles off? (For the sarcastically challenged: these are rhetorical questions!\u00a0 The answer is that rerouting costs money, as do pilots, as do more watch keeping officers, as do improved navigation aids, as does increased surveillance.\u00a0 China needs cheap energy.\u00a0 The world needs cheap energy.\u00a0 And coal is apparently the answer.)<\/p>\n

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Oh well – back to “reality”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are all so happy about our energy saving ideas, but then reality intrudes in brutal fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}