Measures to enable, say, wind power to compete more effectively with coal - based electricity invite an outcome that is the worst of both worlds:
coal combustion continues, even as wind power subsidies benefit developers while adding to budget woes.
Not exact matches
At the same time, as well, other fundamental forces will
continue to drive polluted China and smog - choked India to move away from unfettered
coal combustion as a path to progress.
While those emissions have
continued to decline in the West, returns, from a brightening standpoint, have diminished, just as
coal combustion ramped up in Asia.
Coal combustion products are expected to
continue to play a major role in the concrete market.
But if existing
combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of
coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could
continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.