Posted on 12/02/2019 4:26:32 AM PST by daniel1212
Greenpeace congratulated China and the EU by contrasting it with Trump’s refusal to commit the United States to the Paris climate accord: “What gets the pair together isn't just Trump – China and the EU understand the opportunities offered by a clean and climate-safe world.”
Oops! Hold your horses! All bets are off! According to a BBC news headline d/d November 20, 2019: “Climate Change: China Coal Surge Threatens Paris Targets.”
Astonishingly, over the past 18 months China has added enough new coal-based electricity generation (43GW) to power 31 million homes. King coal has returned. Not only, China is also financing 25% of all new proposed coal plants outside of its own borders, e.g., South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. They’ve gone coal gaga.
In less than two years, China is once again immersed in a vast “coal boom,” similar to its “one new coal plant per week” 2006-2015 commitment, resulting in air pollution so thick it could be cut with a knife, now replenished as new coal power plant construction is planning an additional 148GW, a number that equals the current total coal generating capacity of the EU.
Henceforth, major coastal urban centers throughout the world will be better off allocating their Green Funds to seawalls, huge towering seawalls in a throwback to 12th century feudalism when towering walls were erected to protect “civilized society” from hordes of raiding Mongols that ruled China well into the 14th century. Figuratively speaking, the Mongols are back!
Additionally, powerful coal and electricity interests in China are pushing for a much bigger increase in overall coal power capacity. After all, communism is not adverse to influence by big money, rich fossil fuel interests.
I myself think safe modern nuclear power is what should be pursued.
It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/#3b3cb2321688
The 3 Biggest Myths About Nuclear Power
Myth #1. Nuclear is dangerous.... As a variety of different analyses have shown, even when you factor in nuclear's memorable accidents, it is vastly safer than any fossil fuel energy source. ..
Myth #2. Nuclear waste is an unsolvable problem.
Myth #2. Nuclear waste is an unsolvable problem...Nuclear energy results in radioactive waste in the form of spent fuel rods – a big drawback. But did you know that coal plants actually produce more radioactive waste during their operation?..waste could be safely locked away in Yucca Mountain, a remote site in the Nevada desert situated on federal land.
Myth #3. Nuclear is prohibitively expensive.... The Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that a meager carbon price costing the average household only $1 per month could make nuclear competitive nationwide, while vastly reducing air pollution.While cheap and growing cheaper, wind and solar...technology is nowhere near ready yet, presents its own environmental hazards, and will likely be very costly. - https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/07/02/the_3_biggest_myths_about_nuclear_power.html
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/07/02/the_3_biggest_myths_about_nuclear_power.html
Next Generation Nuclear Power
New, safer and more economical nuclear reactors could not only satisfy many of our future energy needs but could combat global warming as well -https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/next-generation-nuclear/
Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality—but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago.....Over the next two decades China hopes to build the world’s largest nuclear power industry. - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/
Admin, forgot link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/27/chinas-renewed-coal-boom/
Greta should go to China to protest.
“After all, communism is not adverse to influence by big money, rich fossil fuel interests.”
Nor are they adverse to poisoning their own people.
Deadly toxin byproducts that last 10,000 years and are highly prized by terrorists for making dirty bombs are beyond stupid.
....and stay there.
Nuclear waste is either dangerous and short-lived, or not very dangerous and long lived.
You cannot have both unless it is chemically dangerous versus radioctively dangerous.
If is is a chemical poison, it can last much longer than 10,000 years, like arsenic.
Without reliable, relatively cheap electricity, there is poverty, social and political disorder. China , India and most of the world will burn whatever they have or can get to generate electricity.
What the hell is a "climate-safe" world?
Obviously a world safe from having climate.
Where’s grrrrrrreta? Big climageddon summit coming up is Spain shortly so she’s probaby busy walking on down there.
Fusion the power of the sun is the future. Once we have safe clean fusing reactors the whole Solar System will be ours. Fusion reactors shut down when they fail so the reaction shuts down. Radiation only occurs when the fusion reaction is on going, sort of a thermo nuclear microwave.
Do you have any? Seems like a good investment. Seriously, some are working to discover how to do what God can do with just a thought.
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