If the external costs of burning coal were
recovered by a coal tax, coal would be the most expensive of all energy - generating fuels.
Not exact matches
Others include: toxic
by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from
coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and
recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.
Fly ash is a fine powder
recovered from gases created
by the burning of
coal.
But it seems likely,
by then, that the market will have shifted its focus to renewables, and perhaps nuclear, with
coal unlikely to
recover given renewables prices will keep falling.
«Fly ash is a fine, glass - like powder
recovered from gases created
by coal - fired electric power generation.
As a result, 2009
coal consumption dropped
by more than 10 % and has not subsequently
recovered.