Posted on 12/10/2024 4:42:00 AM PST by Red Badger
China is Building Coal-Fired Power Plants at an Alarming Rate of two new coal plants every week!
America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather dependent wind turbines and solar panels, to replace coal power plants, with the expectation that America, with about 4% of the world’s population, can drastically impact the world’s emissions occurring from the other 96% people on this planet.
Coal is the world’s most abundant and reliable energy source. The United States has the world’s largest coal reserves. Of the 15 major coal producing States, Montana has the largest coal reserve with 118.4 billion tons.
There are about 200 coal-burning power plants still operating in America, with many concentrated in Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, i.e. only 8% of the world’s coal plants.
Worldwide there are over 2,400 coal-fired power stations, i.e., the other 92% of the world’s coal plants.
Right now, China already has a total of 1,142 operating coal-fired plants and is building six times as many coal-fired power plants as the rest of the world combined – China is building the equivalent of two new coal plants every week!
Most in the wealthier developed counties are oblivious that about 80 percent of the world’s 8 billion, many of which are in Africa, Asia and Latin America still live on less than $10 a day – and the billions who still have little to no access to electricity. For others, life is severely complicated and compromised by the hypocritical “green” agendas of wealthy country elites who have benefited so tremendously from fossil fuels since the modern industrial era began in the 1800’s.
While wealthier countries are shelling out billions of dollars in subsidies for so-called clean ELECTRICITY from wind and solar, those poorer developing countries cannot subsidize themselves out of a paper bag.
Developing countries desperately need dependable, affordable electricity and the products and fuels manufactured from fossil fuels to create jobs, lift families out of poverty, modernize homes, schools, and hospitals, provide clean water, and replace wood and animal dung for cooking and heating.
Even today, for the more than 6 billion on this planet living on less than $10 a day, millions of parents and children die from respiratory and intestinal diseases that are unheard of in wealthy countries, because they don’t have electricity nor any of the 6,000 products made from oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil that did not exist before the 1800’s.
Coal is primarily used for generation of electricity, especially in China, India, and Africa.
As the number one importer of both crude oil and coal, China is the largest consumer of energy and producer of emissions in the world.
China, with 1,142 coal-fired power plants in operation as of July 2023, mainland China currently has a far greater number of coal-fired plants than any other country. India comes in a distant second with 282 coal-fired plants. The U.S.is third with 210 plants. Due to onerous regulations by the Biden Administration and the overreach of his BLM and EPA, approximately 170 of the remaining coal-fired plants in the U.S. are scheduled to be de-commissioned by 2030, and there are no plans to build any new coal-fired plants in the U.S. Meanwhile China is adding to its inventory of coal-fired power plants at a record rate. During the first six months of 2023, China issued permits for the construction of approximately 50 new coal-fired power plants, an average of two per week. China currently has more than 300 coal-fired plants that are either under construction, permitted, or awaiting permitting. If all 300 plants are constructed, China’s inventory of coal-fired power plants will increase by more than 25%. Currently, China has six times more coal-fired power plants under construction than the rest of the World combined.
Officials within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) offer a variety of reasons for the rapid reliance upon coal-fired power plants such as recent heat waves that have increased the demand for air conditioning. New coal-fired plants will simply serve as backup support for the undependable renewable sources of electricity generation from weather dependent wind and solar and during periods of intense electricity demand.
Given that China is also currently leading the world in the construction of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, China’s increased reliance upon coal contradicts the justifications offered by the CCP. Critics point out that most of the new coal-fired power plants are being constructed in locations that fail to support the justifications offered by the CCP, such as no reported instability of the grid or unreliability of renewable energy sources. Other critics indicate that the new coal-fired plants are being constructed in locations that are already powered almost entirely by coal as opposed to supposed unreliable renewable electricity generation sources.
Whatever stance is taken, while the wealthier developed nations are rapidly decreasing reliance upon coal-fired power plants by subsidizing wind and solar, China and other developing countries are moving even faster in the opposite direction, drastically increasing reliance upon coal that is abundant and affordable for their economies.
Hope is on the horizon. The landmark US Supreme Court Chevron case has taken much of the teeth out of overzealous federal bureaucrats. US Senator Steve Daines of Montana has proposed legislation to keep coal mines operational. The landslide victory of the incoming Trump administration including the coal friendly majority in the US Senate and House which are committed to energy independence, will likely reign in bureaucratic red tape, shortsighted energy hysteria from those who Senator Daines refers to as “Green Hallucinationists,” and put the American people first with clean, reliable and affordable electricity from the hard-working coal miners of the good old USofA! There is a new sheriff in town, especially DC town and the American Coal industry is proud to help wear that badge!
Please share this information with teachers, students, and friends to encourage Energy Literacy conversations at the family dinner table.
That would be as effective as telling your cat to educate himself.
My cat is very smart and self-educated...............
Closing all 200 coal power plants now or in the near future will have a catastrophic effect on our electrical system, and further serve the leftist efforts of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.
We have coal powered energy here. Our co-op owns the coal mines, the rails to transport and the generation plants. Our KWH is $.065. Watts not to like?
“Developing countries desperately need dependable, affordable electricity”
China makes very affordable solar panels and inverters.
Almost all developing nations are bathed in golden sunshine.
Fossil fuels should be reserved for transport and farming use. Humans hopefully will still be alive in 3524.
Most energy should come from solar and nuclear power.
India - 301.6 million cows
Brazil - 219 million cows
China - 100.2 million
United States - 91.8 million
European Union - 88.6 million
The US has about one belching bovine per 20 acres. Do you think that could impact the climate in any significant or provable way?
Millenia ago, instead of cattle, there were vast herds of bison, elk, caribou, etc, in both Eurasia and North America. Plus herds of mammoths, Aurochs and Stag-Moose and other large ruminants that have since been hunted to extinction. So relatively the numbers probably haven’t changed much...............
And China’s coal burning plants are the most efficient, environmentally safe, emission free plants ever built. The Chinese environmental record is impeccable. SMH
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Pass a law requiring for every coal plant removed, must build 3 nuclear plants before the shutdown of the coal plant. That will stop that nonsense, or fix the problem.
Montana has a coal tax trust fund of $1 billion + — and it cannot be tapped into without a 75% YEA vote by Bo chambers of the state and a governors signature.
We have a very nice rainy day slush fund...
Love that Montana coal!
$1 billion dollars doesn’t go very far nowadays.
Just ask Zelenskyy..................
Obama had power plants shut down all over the US in his term, from Page AZ to Farmington NM. Still huge coal fields in that area locked up by Bill Clinton, Down in Texas the Lignite plants are closed.
Obama tried to shut down our plant but it was so profitable the company decided to add unnecessary scrubbers to take out the last 2% of the sulfur in the fuel. As a result the plant, in the last 14 years now has a 100 foot tall pile of scrubber waste near the plant. Never had that in the 31 years I worked there.
Mix with asphalt and Pave the roads with it !...............
BTW, where does asphalt come from???????.................
Have these nincompoops ever considered that?........
These plants burn more BTUs of fossil fuel to build the solar cells than the solar cells will ever produce in their entire service life and put more CO2 into the atmosphere than a fossil fuel power plant to produce the same amount of power.
The green economy is a fraud
Cave man finds burning rock human life advanced.
Let the Greemies freeze in the dark if that’s what they demand.
I Agree!!
DISCONNECT all the Greenie Weenies from the grid. Let them live net-zero for a FEW YEARS.
ALSO, no back-up generators for them either. ONLY Solar and Wind.
Let them PROVE they know what they are talking about!!!!
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