WESCOAL HOLDINGSDylan Thomas had other things on his mind when he suggested that you should “rage against the dying of the light”, but it’s a sentiment that will be all too familiar to anybody who’s suffered a touch of load-shedding just as the dinner guests are arriving. Renewables are clearly the way forward in energy provision, especially given that Elon Musk’s advances in battery technology are only going to get better, making affordable and effective storage of electricity a reality.As a nation we do of course have the quixotic option available of securing our future energy requirements by handing the entire contents of the national piggy bank over to that nice Mr Putin, but for the moment the simplest solution remains to continue with the admirably 19th-century approach of digging up dead trees and burning them.Our friends at Wescoal are demonstrating that not only is coal a tidy solution to a number of applications, but it can also deliver some handy returns to investors. Key...
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