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There is just one coal power plant under construction Dateln 4. [1] This is not going well, with boiler and legal issues meaning a plant which was supposed to
by jerven 8y ago
There is just one coal power plant under construction Dateln 4. [1]
This is not going well, with boiler and legal issues meaning a plant which was supposed to open in 2013 is to open 7 years later in 2020. Making it not exactly a great poster child for how to build a coal power plant. Being in construction for 13 years is not cheap and fast.
[1] https://endcoal.org/tracker/ https://endcoal.org/tracker/
- greglindahl 8y agoModern coal plants have to be complicated in order to be efficient, and that means they take a long time to build and have to be big. Meanwhile, wind and solar can be built much smaller and quicker, with the biggest bottleneck being building transmission lines (if needed.) Kind of funny that "big coal" is now suffering from a problem that nuclear has struggled with for a long time.