There are government and industry arguments that the coal plants will be used as backup support for renewables and during periods of intense electricity demand, like heat waves, says, the assistant research director at the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy."That's being used as an excuse for new projects," Cui says.
"When the energy crisis happened, when energy security is a big concern, the country just seeks solutions from coal by default," Yu says. . But there are questions over how high that peak will get and how soon that peak will come, says Champenois.there must be"no new development of unabated coal-fired power plants" to keep temperatures less than 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst effects of climate change.
United States is not the problem China and India are
all the cheap crap people buy has to be produced somewhere
China's the worst polluter the planet by far.
People are the cause of environmental impacts on the planet 🌎
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Europe reopening coal plants because of our escalation towards WW3? Maybe we'll need to burn extra diesel to ship our natural gas over to solve this problem?
Did you hear what the head of the FBI said on TV?
Ok so Climate Change discussion is over. China not complying. US shouldn’t either.
Manufacturing consent
Let them. We have windmills. We cut down forests to build solar farms. We'll be fine.
Remember this the next time anyone talks about the Paris Climate Accord. It’s all lies and nothing more.
They have over a billion people.
But our government is focused on gas stoves?
Let them keep investing in a dying energy source. I'm 100% positive they won't regret it.
as the West commits suicide
Because China doesn't care, in fact, they support other countries weakening themselves so they can gain an advantage.
Yes, but it's green coal—as you can clearly see in the picture—so it's fine. /s