There is a huge surge in coal mining and the number of
coal fired power plants in the guise of meeting electricity demands and development for the country.
Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution
from coal fired power stations and many others were from indoor cooking fires using coal.
Secondly it is more efficient to charge battery driven cars directly
with coal fired electricity.
As coal fired generation is retired and intermittent renewables come online, the role of gas in our energy mix will become even more vital.
While it is sad that people lose their jobs
when coal fired power stations are shut down, it must happen if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided.
But your comment does highlight an important point: it isn't enough to
stop coal fired power plants if you don't at the same time stop the coal mines.
If having to run cars on electricity means they add twice as
much coal fired electricity without CCS it would be a disaster.
This alone would have given an incomplete assessment of emissions, because
coal fires also release gases through the soil.
A 1000 million
watt coal fired power plant burns 4 million tons of coal each year.
Over the past 20 years huge numbers of
mainly coal fired power stations have been constructed.
In addition to the underground fires, there are also 93 known
surface coal fires, some of them in huge waste piles created during the process of coal mining.
A large spacious lounge has a
romantic coal fire and comfortable furniture for relaxing, television, DVD player and entertainment system.
It's not your usual packed lunch, everything is cooked on the island using wood and
coal fire grill.
I can do a lot more at less cost by building nuclear power plants or
converting coal fired generators to modern gas - fired ones.
We don't have the electric capacity in nuclear, solar, hydro, combined cycle, etc to replace the
missing coal fired plants.
In several Western European
economies coal fired power can be expected to fall modestly over the next two decades.
But not a
single coal fired plant has been closed as a result of deployment of a wind project, worldwide.
At another point, he talks about placing fees (taxes) on pollutants
from coal fired electricity like mercury.
Experienced operation and maintenance activities associated
with coal fired generation units.
A number of companies are exploring for hot rocks to use for the generation of geothermal energy, which will help
replace coal fired power station electricity.
Waiting for a resurgence
of coal fired power demand is like beating a dead horse.
My personal opinion is that the only practical path to reducing these emissions from
coal fired power plants significantly is for us (you and me) to use a lot less electricity.
I have a totally speculative pet hypothesis: this was the early days of the industrial revolution and much more black soot was being produced by
coal fires in the cities.
The Pennsylvania coal plant has been through bankruptcy twice, but the economics
for coal fired generation in the region are still just as challenging