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Another View of US Exports: Portland and the Pacific Northwest
Following on yesterday’s post which covered the surge in coal exports from the US, readers may be aware that various coal exporters have searched in vain for the past two years for new coal exporting...
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North American Natural Gas Breaks Below Two Dollars, for a Million BTU
Natural gas in North America broke below the $2.00 barrier today, for the first time in ten years. It’s important to remember that, unlike oil, natural gas does not trade at a converged, global price....
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Oil’s Bright, Momentary Flash
In 1965, after more than a century and a half, oil overtook coal as the world’s primary energy source. But only eight years later in 1973, oil itself peaked as a percentage of global energy use at...
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My Quick Preview of the 2012 BP Statistical Review
Soon, the BP Statistical Review will release its annual update to 2011 global energy data. Each year I slowly tinker with projections for global consumption, among the various energy sources, from oil...
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For A Million BTU: Monday 4 June 2012
Today’s prices for a million BTU, by source: Brent Crude Oil; West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil; United Kingdom LNG; North American Natural Gas; Central Appalachian Coal; Powder River Basin Coal. –Gregor
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Coal Wins Again: Global Energy Use by Source, from the 2012 BP Statistical...
The 2012 BP Statistical Review, covering 2011 world energy data, has been released. With global oil production roughly flat for a seventh year, coal once again gained global share of total primary...
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Coal: The Ignored Juggernaut
Dear Readers: I’m currently writing a long-form post twice a month now for Chris Martenson’s excellent website, Peak Prosperity.com. Accordingly, I’ll be publishing the first (and free) part of these...
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Export Nation: Does A Tipping Point Approach?
Since 2009, exports from the US have grown at a faster rate than GDP. This is reflected in the weak, national recovery in jobs while export-oriented regions and export-sector jobs have fared much...
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The War Between Credit and Resources
Dear Readers: I’m currently writing a long-form post twice a month now for Chris Martenson’s excellent website, Peak Prosperity.com. Accordingly, I’ll be publishing the first (and free) part of these...
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Night Sky Over Asia 1992-2010
As people are coming to understand, Asian economic growth over the past two decades—despite its great adoption of oil—essentially runs on electricity, most of which is supplied by the burning of coal....
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India Unleashed: June Issue of TerraJoule.us
Each issue of TerraJoule.us contains: a Main Essay, the Model Portfolio, the Data Brief, and a link to a Downloadable Podcast. Gregor Macdonald, Editor. Readers may purchase each issue individually,...
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Big Trends in Global Energy: July Issue of TerraJoule.us
Each issue of TerraJoule.us contains: a Main Essay, the Model Portfolio, the Data Brief, and a link to a Downloadable Podcast. Gregor Macdonald, Editor. Readers may purchase each issue individually,...
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Coal Dread: June Issue of TerraJoule.us
Each issue of TerraJoule.us contains: a Main Essay, the Model Portfolio, the Data Brief, and a link to a Downloadable Podcast. Gregor Macdonald, Editor. Readers may purchase each issue individually,...
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After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes for Coal
The Gregor.us blog, highly active from 2008-2013, has largely been dormant during the time over the past few years as I’ve pursued other opportunities in journalism. However, in 2016 postings will...
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The Peak in OECD Emissions is Starting to Look More Secure
There’s a pattern of energy usage, wind and solar deployment, and economic growth that’s started to show up more consistently across domains in the OECD. Essentially, over the past decade, a long...
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Peak Coal, They Said: Questions Persist about Fossil Fuel Scarcity, and the...
Are you excited at the prospect that Coal’s Second Coming, largely driven by China over the past 20 years, has now come to a halt? You should be. Coal retirements in the United States have been...
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The Big Pivot: Interest Rates and Emissions as Global Population Growth Hits...
It remains a curiosity that during a time of slow growth and exceedingly low interest rates—two persistent conditions which reliably perplex economists—that more attention is not drawn towards...
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In the Year 2020
London based Carbon Tracker is forecasting that global demand for both coal and oil are set to peak just a few years from now, in the year 2020. The new report uses a model, in partnership with...
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The Next Emissions Story
If you’ve been following the emissions story the past few years, you will know that slower economic activity and the rise of renewables have started to seriously blunt the growth of global carbon. In...
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Coal Jobs and the Power of a False Premise
Employment in America’s coal industry collapsed not five years ago, but fifty years ago. Since that time, President Nixon’s establishment of the EPA, the steady market share gains of natural gas in the...
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