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And what's up with Japan's steadily rising use of coal energy? They are still a top 5 world economy.
by antisthenes 8y ago
And what's up with Japan's steadily rising use of coal energy?
They are still a top 5 world economy.
- xxgreg 8y agoThe usual answer is "because Fukushima shut down the nuclear industry, duh". But this is obviously wrong as when looking at the data. Much of the increase was between 2000-2010. I wonder if it's due to the monopoly structures of the energy business shielding them from the changes that the rest of the world has been seeing. I wonder how much of the coal is used for electricity vs steel making etc. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capita https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...