{"id":89098,"date":"2013-04-21T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89098"},"modified":"2013-04-21T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:28:08","slug":"the-fast-growing-energy-source-set-to-replace-oil-yes-its-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89098","title":{"rendered":"The Fast-Growing Energy Source Set to Replace Oil: Yes, It&#8217;s Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2013\/04\/19\/energy_use_co2_twenty_years_ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emergence of renewable power has had essentially no effect on the amount of carbon emissions involved in energy generation, according to a new report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My, what a surprise! Aren&#8217;t you surprised? I&#8217;m sure surprised.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acting against these mitigating factors has been the massive world upsurge in coal burning, particularly in China &#8211; though lately, Europe has also turned to coal in a bid to wean itself off insecure and pricey Russian gas. Coal is a very carbon-intensive way to generate energy, so all this has effectively wiped out the carbon reductions achieved by gas, hydro and nuclear (and the tiny additional ones from wind, solar etc).<\/p>\n<p>So rapid is the growth, indeed, that the IEA expects coal to supplant oil as the world&#8217;s most-used energy source in 2017 on current trends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. The emergence of renewable power has had essentially no effect on the amount of carbon emissions involved in energy generation, according to a new report. My, what a surprise! Aren&#8217;t you surprised? I&#8217;m sure surprised. Acting against these mitigating factors has been the massive world upsurge in coal burning, particularly in China &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89100,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89098\/revisions\/89100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}