Today, renewable energy resources like wind and solar power are so affordable that they're
driving coal production and coal - fired generation out of business.
Not exact matches
Promises to bring back
coal as a viable part of the U.S. energy policy have sent
coal stocks soaring, and if government policy succeeds in
driving more domestic manufacturing and
production, then
coal producers like Natural Resource Partners could see demand keep climbing.
These include warm summer weather, which
drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus
coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in
production by some players in the natural - gas industry.
Adoption of clean
coal technologies like carbon capture and storage also will be a heavy lift for the utility sector, since they can significantly
drive up
production costs.
Trump has also promised to «lift restrictions on the
production» of shale, oil, natural gas and clean
coal — such a move would increase the market share of fossil - fuel power, and could
drive emissions up.
There was also a record decline in global
coal production,
driven by low prices globally and then mining controls in China, which saw
coal markets rally.
Here's a solution: All the sovereign States with gas, oil, and
coal reserves, can use their sovereign power to simply clamp down on
production,
driving FF prices higher, and achieve the Nirvana New Energy Future as rapidly as is physically possible.
This analysis reveals that global
coal production may still increase over the next 10 to 15 years by about 30 percent, mainly
driven by Australia, China, the Former Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and South Africa.
1 Executive Summary 2 Scope of the Report 3 The Case for Hydrogen 3.1 The
Drive for Clean Energy 3.2 The Uniqueness of Hydrogen 3.3 Hydrogen's Safety Record 4 Hydrogen Fuel Cells 4.1 Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell 4.2 Fuel Cells and Batteries 4.3 Fuel Cell Systems Durability 4.4 Fuel Cell Vehicles 5 Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure 5.1 Hydrogen Station Hardware 5.2 Hydrogen Compression and Storage 5.3 Hydrogen Fueling 5.4 Hydrogen Station Capacity 6 Hydrogen Fueling Station Types 6.1 Retail vs. Non-Retail Stations 6.1.1 Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.1.2 Non-Retail Hydrogen Stations 6.2 Mobile Hydrogen Stations 6.2.1 Honda's Smart Hydrogen Station 6.2.2 Nel Hydrogen's RotoLyzer 6.2.3 Others 7 Hydrogen Fueling Protocols 7.1 SAE J2601 7.2 Related Standards 7.3 Fueling Protocols vs. Vehicle Charging 7.4 SAE J2601 vs. SAE J1772 7.5 Ionic Compression 8 Hydrogen Station Rollout Strategy 8.1 Traditional Approaches 8.2 Current Approach 8.3 Factors Impacting Rollouts 8.4
Production and Distribution Scenarios 8.5 Reliability Issues 9 Sources of Hydrogen 9.1 Fossil Fuels 9.2 Renewable Sources 10 Methods of Hydrogen
Production 10.1
Production from Non-Renewable Sources 10.1.1 Steam Reforming of Natural Gas 10.1.2
Coal Gasification 10.2
Production from Renewable Sources 10.2.1 Electrolysis 10.2.2 Biomass Gasification 11 Hydrogen
Production Scenarios 11.1 Centralized Hydrogen
Production 11.2 On - Site Hydrogen
Production 11.2.1 On - site Electrolysis 11.2.2 On - Site Steam Methane Reforming 12 Hydrogen Delivery 12.1 Hydrogen Tube Trailers 12.2 Tanker Trucks 12.3 Pipeline Delivery 12.4 Railcars and Barges 13 Hydrogen Stations Cost Factors 13.1 Capital Expenditures 13.2 Operating Expenditures 14 Hydrogen Station Deployments 14.1 Asia - Pacific 14.1.1 Japan 14.1.2 Korea 14.1.3 China 14.1.4 Rest of Asia - Pacific 14.2 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 14.2.1 Germany 14.2.2 The U.K. 14.2.3 Nordic Region 14.2.4 Rest of EMEA 14.3 Americas 14.3.1 U.S. West Coast 14.3.2 U.S. East Coast 14.3.3 Canada 14.3.4 Latin America 15 Selected Vendors 15.1 Air Liquide 15.2 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 15.3 Ballard Power Systems 15.4 FirstElement Fuel Inc. 15.5 FuelCell Energy, Inc. 15.6 Hydrogenics Corporation 15.7 The Linde Group 15.8 Nel Hydrogen 15.9 Nuvera Fuel Cells 15.10 Praxair 15.11 Proton OnSite / SunHydro 15.11.1 Proton Onsite 15.11.2 SunHydro 16 Market Forecasts 16.1 Overview 16.2 Global Hydrogen Station Market 16.2.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.2.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.2.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.3 Asia - Pacific Hydrogen Station Market 16.3.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.3.2 Hydrogen Stations Capacity 16.3.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.4 Europe, Middle East and Africa 16.4.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.4.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.4.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 16.5 Americas 16.5.1 Hydrogen Station Deployments 16.5.2 Hydrogen Station Capacity 16.5.3 Hydrogen Station Costs 17 Conclusions 17.1 Hydrogen as a Fuel 17.2 Rollout of Fuel Cell Vehicles 17.3 Hydrogen Station Deployments 17.4 Funding Requirements 17.5 Customer Experience 17.6 Other Findings
Will economics (e.g., new solar power cheaper than
coal power) and trade (most - of - the world international agreement on tariffs based on CO2
production)
drive the US too to a lower - carbon future despite Trump?
We have used these fuels to
drive our technological innovations of all kinds, from the
production of metal tools in
coal - burning furnaces centuries ago to the development of plastic bags, a modern scourge.