Posted on 06/30/2021 4:50:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Five Asian countries are responsible for 80 percent of new coal power stations planned worldwide, with the projects threatening goals to fight the climate crisis, a report warned Wednesday.
China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam are planning to build more than 600 coal plants, think-tank Carbon Tracker said.
The stations will be able to generate a total of 300 gigawatts of energy -- equivalent to around the entire electricity generating capacity of Japan.
The projects are being pursued despite the availability of cheaper renewables, and they threaten efforts to meet the Paris climate deal goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the study said.
Experts see phasing out coal, which produces greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, as key in battling a climate crisis whose impacts -- ranging from species extinction to unliveable heat -- are expected to accelerate markedly.
But many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, long reliant on the fossil fuel to power their booming economies, have been slow to act, even as Europe and the United States accelerate their transitions to cleaner energy.
Asia-Pacific consumed over three-quarters of all coal used globally in 2019, according to BP's statistical review of world energy.
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My BS detector went off the rails with that statement.
North America has 350 years worth of recoverable coal.
How about an open, honest public debate on man made global warming? Ready for that Democrats? Probably not. Let us know.
Most of the pollution from thermal coal was removed via precipitators in the 1970s.
How close are we to “clean coal” ?
What has destroyed coal in this country is natural gas.
Countries like China and India don’t have much in the way of gas fields, so coal makes sense for them.
Coal is also much cheaper in countries where miners are considered expendable.
Activists don’t understand basic Thermodynamics and energy systems. Heck, many (most?) aren’t numerate.
Without reliable, cheap electricity, there is poverty, social disorder and political instability. Australia has become the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Yes, and is impoverishing its own people on the alter of "renewables" and "global warming/climate change".
Australia had some of the cheapest energy in the world, 40 years ago.
Now, they have some of the most expensive.
It is so bad, my genius farmer friends say they can produce electricity cheaper with diesel generators, on the farm, than they can purchase it from the grid.
They are shutting down coal plants in Australia in favor of solar and wind.
-—think-tank-—
parasitic whine tank
“Without reliable, cheap electricity, there is poverty, social disorder and political instability.”
And with quickly built coal-fired electricity sources, China can more quickly become more dominant on the world stage.
The enviormentalists in Australia are trying to block the mining, use and export of coal. Political enviormentalism is economic suicide.
The most evil of the elites say there should only be 500,000 humans on the planet.
Of course, they’re among the lucky 500,000....
Who knows what we will be doing 350 years from now. Fifty years from now we will be burning a lot of coal.
But Americans need to give up their SUV’s
Even with stack scrubbers coal plants emit massive amounts of emissions. There is no such thing as “clean coal” only less dirty coal. Natural gas emits ZERO heavy metals, particulates nor sulfur dioxide. Coal is best left in the dust bin of history.
https://www.epa.gov/mats/cleaner-power-plants
The proper way to go after coal is with underground gasification. Turn the coal into synthetic gas underground which leaves the toxic heavy metals, and particulates in the ground with syngas clean up on the surface feed into an intergated combined cycle gas turbine at 60+% overall efficiency UCG is as clean as natural gas. Cost for syngas can approach $4 MCF when done right which is close to the current shale gas prices. The USA has well over 400 years of coal reserved that UCG could access. Any seam more than a meter thick deeper than 40 meters is able to be gased, and deep seams not reachable by conventional mining but easily accessible by directional drilling identical to horizontal shale well tech opens hundreds of years more reserves. If CO2 really is an issue the cavity from prior gasifiers can be flooded with liquid CO2 from the current running cavity sequestering it. One could oxy fire IGTCC and get nearly pure CO2 as the product.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352854016300833
https://fortune.com/2020/03/16/green-energy-project-odessa-carbon-capture/
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