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.
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.
China is building coal plants to cover their electrical needs til their 22 new nuclear plants com on line. They are taking the short term hit with the use of coal to play the long game of energy independence with the new plants. I assume they will continue to use coal as they build more nuke power but we will be wallowing in false promises of wind and solar.
The article I read has the US building only one nuke plant at this time. How long before that construction is shut down with the environmental Amish.
My understanding that the Wyoming coal mines are selling to China.