Energy history in Colorado - JS

Energy history In Colorado John Shanahan May 16, 2022 Here is some information relating to energy use in Colorado from the practical, private business operations starting in the mid 1800s to the pretend wind and solar, anti-fossil fuel government policies of the 2020s.

Coal From the 1870s through the 1940s coal was the most important source of energy in Colorado. Even up to the present time, coal generates a significant share of electricity. It was the energy source to produce coke to operate steel mills, to build railroads to service mines, farms, bring people to Colorado, and take agricultural products and mining treasure to national and global markets. It was used as the power source for mining, milling, smelting of gold, silver, and other metals, to settle towns, and operate smelters for extraction of gold and silver from the ore. Coal power plants generated electricity and heated buildings.

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Coal Mining in Colorado

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Photos of Colorado and coal mining history

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Coal in Colorado

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Colorado and Coal in Today’s Political Climate

Oil and Natural Gas Oil and natural gas combined have become more important than coal in Colorado. They provide the energy for transportation, space heating, and cooking. They provide thousands of essential by-products. Life in the modern world is totally dependent on coal, oil, and natural gas to make everything work and for most goods and services. Take

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fossil fuels away, as the politicians in the last forty years are determined to do and there goes the wonderful standard of living of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Claims of catastrophic man-made global warming - climate change from use of fossil fuels. What are the real motives?

State, county and city politicians, special interest groups, and much of the media are determined to stop use of coal, oil, and natural gas. They claim that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is causing catastrophic global warming. Their claims have no basis in science.

See articles by The Galileo Movement, click here. (Australia) See articles by The Saltbush Club, click here. (Australia) See articles and reports by Samuel Furfari, click here. (Belgium) See articles, reports, and videos by Friends of Science, click here. (Canada) See articles by Michel Gay, click here. (France) See articles, reports, and videos by Kalte Sonne, click here. (Germany) See articles and reports by CLINTEL, click here. (Netherlands) See articles and reports by the CO2 Coalition, click here. (USA) *** Why CO2 and greenhouse effects can not cause catastrophic global warming by Terigi Ciccone, click here. (If you read only one article, read this. I’ve studied it five times. It covers many questions.) (USA) See articles and reports by the Cornwall Alliance, click here. (USA) See articles and reports by scientists and engineers who worked for the Apollo Moon Program, click here. (USA) See over 800 articles and slide presentations on the website: allaboutenergy.net, click here. (USA) *** A very well thought out report written by an engineer

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Energy overall use in Colorado -

List of power stations in Colorado

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Colorado State Energy Profile

Some history of nuclear power in Colorado Saint Vrain High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor, HTGR. The first of any new technology is never as good as later models: TVs, computers, kitchen designs, cameras, sound equipment, bathing suits!, air planes, and nuclear power plants. The Saint Vrain HTGR nuclear reactor designed by the Defense Contractor General Atomics in San Diego had many good features. It also had a non-nuclear technical problem with the helium circulator. This concept for nuclear power has a bright future.

University of Colorado professor of electrical engineering, Petr Beckmann, was an early challenger of the anti-nuclear activists, 1976. See here.

University of Connecticut physics professor, retired to Colorado, Howard Cork Hayden is the author of The Energy Advocate.

John Shanahan and Michael Hancock have developed one of the most extensive websites to educate the public about the importance of fossil fuel and nuclear energy in the modern world: allaboutenergy.net.

Colorado State University professor of radiation biology, Michael H. Fox wrote a book: Why We Need Nuclear Power -The Environmental Case. He does a very good job of explaining nuclear power. But he is convinced that carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is causing catastrophic global warming - climate change. That is not certain at all. Even if fossil fuels were causing global warming, Fox makes the same mistake that many nuclear power professionals make, namely claiming that the building of enough nuclear power plants to make a difference will happen soon enough to solve this hypothetical problem. Construction of enough nuclear power plants in all the right places will not happen anywhere close to soon enough to solve the hypothetical doomsday climate change scenarios. For a reality check, read this article by Terigi Ciccone.

Sierra Club opposed a nuclear power plant near Pueblo. The energy park was proposed by Pueblo attorney, Don Banner. It would have been an excellent technology complex.

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