Posted on 03/12/2024 1:12:46 PM PDT by DallasBiff
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history.
TThat turned out to be easier said that done. Even saying it — in writing — became quite a challenge.
Government negotiators in Glasgow wrote and rewrote a paragraph that spells out that fighting climate change requires the world to end coal power, along with fossil fuel subsidies. The wording on coal was weakened one last time just before the gavel came down after coal-dependent India insisted on replacing the words “phase out” with “phase down.”
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It’s cheap and plentiful.
That’s what.................
After they switch everything to batteries, batteries will be bad. It isn’t about the planet, it is about control.
Easy answer. The left is against anything that's good for the masses.
And coking coal is necessary to make steel. British kitchen knives will henceforth be made of flint.
China builds a new coal powered electrical generating plant every week... If you have coal, you have a market that wants it... And they don’t care how dirty it is.
They should try to stop breathing it’s just as hard as quitting coal ,LOL
Many moons ago, a real scientist pointed out that some coal is actually stored solar energy.
When I point this out to the Globull Hoaxers and their useful idiots with skulls full of mush, they just babble incoherently.
Chinese coal, along with being poor quality, also has high amounts of radioactive materials in it. The air is already bad in most of China. So bad, in fact, it affects the air quality in the United States. But adding radiation to the air will affect the amount of lung cancer...in China and anywhere the smoke travels.
My first experience with coal was when I got a lump of it in my Christmas stocking.
By the time I was 12 I was sniffing coal dust every day.
Once I turned 14 I would steal from my grandmother to ensure my supply of coal. I knew I should stop, but just couldn't.
Then I was turned on to gasoline at 16 - finally got off coal....
Because it works - it is cheap and incredibly dependable, we have hundreds of years of reserves, people don’t freeze to death when we use it, and we have $trillions in coal infrastructure around the world. Other than that, no reason at all.
Wow. What a fever swamp of abject Leftist moonbat-like stupidity that article was.
No problem…there won’t be any food to prepare, cook or eat.
Good point. And you don’t need a knife to eat a cricket.
Yes the most important features of coal is that it is dispatchable, storable, and reliable. None of which were mentioned by the idiot child who wrote this typical AP dreck.
Not a damn thing is wrong with it. It’s cheap and plentiful. We can add bag houses and carbon capture and all sort of things to “clean” the exhaust and it’s still cheap and plentiful.
Coal is what people with normal brains look at and want to use when looking at energy needs across the planet.
The problem is China doesn’t give a crap about what they are spewing out and no one can make them improve it if they don’t want to.
Simple it is to empty ashes from a Hitzer coal stove. You shake, and they drop into a pan with an airtight door in front of it.
You pull out the pan, shut the door, empty the pan and put it back in and shut the door again.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/why-cant-a-woodstove-have-a-shaker-ash-pan-like-a-coal-stove.79404/
Why quitting coal is so hard?
Because it is cheap, plentiful, and most people don’t want to freeze in the dark so that woke, rich liberals can drive around in $100K battery operated cars.
.....Why quitting coal is so hard...,
Because in many cases, using coal for energy is necessary!
.....British kitchen knives will henceforth be made of flint......
Just like our Stone Age ancestors!
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