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China's coal production to peak in a couple of years | 25 comments (25 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: China's coal production to peak in a couple of (none / 1)

The people who made this report are renewable this and solar that. The possibility that they are not entirely unbiased should be taken into account.

The German MP who initiated this report, one Hans-Josef Fell, is a B90/Green. Which is not very good. It would've been best if he were a social demoocrat as they're the ones into cahoots with the coal industry. If such a person was behind an alarming report like this, I need not worry that it underestimates the global coal reserves.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 03:52:59 PM EST

Thanks for that input (4.00 / 2)

but do you contest the underlying data? It comes from the Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) and the EIA, so should be slanted rather more towards coal than the other way round?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 04:30:01 PM EST
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Nope, I don't contest the data. I have neither the time nor the inclination to sift through the report.

I am just saying maybe someone should do just that, considering who put it together.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 04:52:53 PM EST
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Re: Thanks for that input (none / 1)

You had time and inclination to check the authors, but not the actual arguments?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:09:20 PM EST
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Re: Thanks for that input (4.00 / 2)

It takes less work.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:17:08 PM EST
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Re: Thanks for that input (none / 0)

Yep. All the names are in the beginning, and Google (and Wikipedia) is your friend. If I had started looking at their data, arguments and analysis I would have had to make quite an effort, especially as my knowledge of coal mining is pretty close to zero.

Look, I am not saying they are wrong, only that maybe someone should read the pdf and check if it holds water.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:17:54 PM EST
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Well, Jérôme did just that. If you think he might have missed something, it's your work :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:20:01 PM EST
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When I posted my comment he hadn't crossposted the longer version from DKos yet, so I didn't know that.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:54:37 PM EST
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Myself, I read maybe three pages and glanced over the rest tonight, I might read it in full tomorrow.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 13th, 2007 at 06:21:11 PM EST
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