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| [NEWS} Annoying Orange made a deal with china, we are dealing coal. |
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| Tactical Nuke:
you have to admit though selling coal to China would be a pretty good idea if we were to ever try to take out NK |
| aludane:
The Asia Oceania region has experienced a large jump in carbon emissions. This can be attributed to the failure of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant (and subsequent mothballing of functional reactors), Australia's pro-fossil export policy and the demand from India's growing economy and various other developing economies. Quite a large amount of the OECD's statistical data is behind paywalls but I imagine the statistics have changed considerably from pre-2011 just from the above. China's coal usage was very high but from what I've read, they are scaling up their nuclear fission infrastructure due to the shocking levels of air pollution. To China, coal is a stopgap until they can utilise much higher energy-density systems and non-polluting solutions. Japan will likely look at restarting its own nuclear infrastructure soon I believe. I think it's fine to export coal to China but everyone should realise that this is not going to be the re-ignition of the coal industry. Milk it while you can. https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/WorldEnergyOutlook2016ExecutiveSummaryEnglish.pdf https://data.oecd.org/energy/electricity-generation.htm https://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/Japan-Nuclear-Update |
| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on April 11, 2017, 01:31:47 PM ---I've heard coal is much more efficient and less damaging then it used to be. --- End quote --- High-quality coal has much less sulfur and other unwanted contaminants in it, and there are often scrubbers installed on coal power plants that help to minimize the air quality damage. However, there's still an overwhelming body of evidence showing that coal power kills stuffloads of people in the US to this very day, and no matter how clean your coal is, it still releases CO2 that contributes to climate change. |
| Drydess:
--- Quote from: King Tøny on April 11, 2017, 03:16:47 PM ---Technically killing china and india would make the world cleaner than how much coal dirties it up. --- End quote --- cleanse the earth |
| Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Drydess on April 11, 2017, 07:05:28 PM --- cleanse the earth --- End quote --- China dumps millions of tons of garbage into the sea every day |
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