Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 February 2026

The crony capitalists still profiteering from the great wind and solar scam have met their match with Donald J Trump. The 47th President of the USA has become their very worst nightmare. And the effects are global, with the US (almost total) collapse in investment in wind and solar capacity spreading fast. One of the … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 8 February 2026

China & India Reject West’s Suicidal Wind & Solar Obsession

While Europe, the UK, US and Australia are busily destroying their energy supplies, China and India are building coal-fired and nuclear power plants, hand over fist - providing reliable and cheap power to industry, businesses and households is central to their economic development. There was nothing sustainable about subsidised wind and solar. The sudden and … Continue reading China & India Reject West’s Suicidal Wind & Solar Obsession

Mission Critical: Coal-Fired Power Central to China & India’s Growing Economic Fortunes

China and India clearly didn’t get the memo that reckons coal-fired power is dead. Both are determined to drag their people out of agrarian poverty and both know precisely how to do it: cheap and reliable coal-fired power. Building new plants at a rate that incenses the climate cult intelligentsia, both countries have no interest … Continue reading Mission Critical: Coal-Fired Power Central to China & India’s Growing Economic Fortunes

Cheap Energy Surge: Asia’s Economic Miracle Driven By Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power

Between them, China and India have already dragged hundreds of millions out of abject poverty, thanks to cheap and reliable coal-fired power. There's no mystery to it; having electricity as and when households and businesses need it is central to an ordered, prosperous and civil society. Cheap power is at the heart of manufacturing and … Continue reading Cheap Energy Surge: Asia’s Economic Miracle Driven By Reliable & Affordable Coal-Fired Power

Starting Small: Nuclear Power’s Renaissance Begins with Small Modular Reactors

The world’s first small modular reactor (SMR) is under construction and, surprise, surprise, it’s energy-hungry China that leads the way. While China’s love affair with coal-fired power looks like a marriage that will last a lifetime, the CCP is also building nuclear plants, hand over first. And not just the 1,000MW plus industrial-scale reactors it needs … Continue reading Starting Small: Nuclear Power’s Renaissance Begins with Small Modular Reactors

Insatiable: Coal-Fired Power Continues its Dominance in Energy Hungry China

The anti-energy/anti-civilisation squad keep predicting the end of coal and coal-fired power. But in China and India the demand for the black stuff - and the cheap and reliable power it delivers - is insatiable, and rising. Notwithstanding a global economic wind down during the Covid-19 outbreak, Chinese demand for coal is about to reach … Continue reading Insatiable: Coal-Fired Power Continues its Dominance in Energy Hungry China

Full Throttle: No End In Sight for China’s Mammoth Coal-Fired Power Rush

China’s quest for global domination isn’t being fuelled by sunshine and breezes; it’s coal that’s driving the Middle Kingdom’s Imperial and economic onslaught. This is a country that is deadly serious about its economic development and deadly serious about its imperial designs. Which means there’s no place at all for power that can’t be delivered … Continue reading Full Throttle: No End In Sight for China’s Mammoth Coal-Fired Power Rush