Posted on 04/12/2022 3:56:25 PM PDT by upchuck
NOTE: A hat tip to my friend Leo in NJ for this. He got it from somebody else. Spread the word.
How many coal fired power plants are there in the world today?
Green New Deal?
Just look at this...
The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495
Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149
South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103
India (thanks) has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035
Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79
South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84
Japan has 90 - building 45 more... Total 135
Saved the BEST for last:
China has 2,363 - building 1,171 more... Total = 3,534
That’s 5,615 projected coal powered plants in just 8 countries.
USA has 15 - building 0 more...Total = 15
And Democrat politicians with their "green new deal” want to brainwash us and shut down those 15 plants in order to "save” the planet.
This is EXCELLENT!! I knew the rough idea about the number of coal plants, but had not yet seen actual numbers until now.
This makes the point. Whatever the USA does or doesn’t do won’t make a Tinker’s Dam regarding CO2 unless the rest of the world, especially China and India, reduce their coal-fired power plants as well.
The whole “global warming” and “climate change” gambits by Democrats are to create a *supposedly* sound, scientific basis to justify the federal government's power-grab and the passage of MORE laws to increase taxes and increased control of the privately owned power industry and its distribution. Never forget the *main* motivation they have!
"Oh, we will SAVE the planet!"
WAKE UP AMERICA! We are being played... again!
My comment had to do with coal-fired pizza ovens. I think you meant your response for someone else.
“...I assume you have a special trusted source...”
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Well, better than Upchuck’s friend Leo.
Thanks.
what is the frequency of those emissions ? tons per year ? hour ?
So, who benefits, and who is pushing it?
Behind the scenes.
Lots of useful idiots here.
Hope they get caught and receive justice before it’s too late.
“...assuming Wiki’s numbers are correct...”
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Better than your friend Leo.
If I remember correctly, most of the coal fired power plants in the Four Corners area are being shut down. Thousands of megawatts of generating capacity going bye bye.
0bama did that, most likely.
The Springerville Generating Station is supposed to be shut down by the end of the year. That’s 700 megawatts going away.
The USA today has 379 coal-fired generating units in 170 operating utility power plants with a total nameplate capacity of 172,000 MW. This is far more than the 15 plants in the text you posted.
The overall conclusion is correct, of course. But it is degraded by such a serious error.
The raw data for all power plants in the U.S. area available at the U.S. Energy Information Administration's "Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory."
“so retrofitted and smogged down to a fraction of their true capacity. We’re paying a BIG price for very little emission difference.”
Bob, stick to your knitting. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
Indeed. We should also be more willing to celebrate our environmental accomplishments. Unlike GW, smog and acid rain were real problems making life worse for Americans.
It was in the 1980s under Reagan and then Bush that we brought in sensible regulations to solve those problems.
However, the question might be just how many have been shut down, and of those how many had years remaining on their viability.
Ask Leo.
The thing that makes coal so attractive.
1) Dig it up
2) Transport it
3) Shovel it in
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Plus there’s tons of it in the ground, just waiting.
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Absolutely right. Nobody celebrates electricity or contemplates life without it. Life was 95% drudgery and toil just to survive before electricity.
I spent five years starting up new utility and industrial boilers. Then I spent the next 20 years doing R&D on new energy systems. The advent of SO2 scrubbers, baghouses to remove almost all fly ash from the exhaust gases, and selective catalytic reactors to reduce NOx made coal power plants extremely clean. Sulfur, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter were very serious problems, but they were solved.
People alive today don’t believe how clean coal plants truly are and, because they have been brainwashed to believe CO2 is a “pollutant,” they think coal is very dirty.
Bookmark.
There are far more than 15 coal-fired power plants in the US. It’s more like 246. I know of two within an hour of my house.
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