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Zero emission sounds nice, but Alberta next door gets its power largely from coal. Just because it isn't coming out of a car doesn't mean its zero emissions
by jammygit 8y ago
Zero emission sounds nice, but Alberta next door gets its power largely from coal. Just because it isn't coming out of a car doesn't mean its zero emissions
- wetpaws 8y agoIt's just one of many bottlenecks. You can't fix them all at the same time, unfortunately, gotta at least start somewhere.
- bagacrap 8y agoYes, "zero" may be misleading, but displacing the emissions away from human settlement is a good thing for human health. And I assume that coal is on its way out, certainly in the 2040 timescale at least?
- Gpetrium 8y agoCoal may be out in places like Canada by 2040 assuming great advances in technology, cost & major climate disruptions. However, it is very unlikely to be out for countries in Africa and Asia that are seeing tremendous increases in energy consumption that cannot be covered by other means of energy capture due to a variety of reasons.
- krisrm 8y ago"Alberta next door gets its power largely from coal" If the government is to be believed, not by 2030 they won't: https://www.alberta.ca/climate-coal-electricity.aspx https://www.alberta.ca/climate-coal-electricity.aspx
- jgon 8y agoWe'll see what happens after the election, but the current government literally paid billions of dollars in order to EOL those coal plants by 2030, ahead of schedule. So the previous commenter isn't giving the whole story.
- jammygit 8y agoElection day is... Next week? Its so hard to predict things with popular political parties taking opposite stances on matters.
- pietrovismara 8y agoStill much better as pollution would be more concentrated in the plants area, while leaving cleaner air in the cities. Also most countries are shifting from coal, so the situation will probably be better also for Alberta by 2040.
- pilsetnieks 8y agoAlso, and I'm loath to even say this, but a coal plant + EVs are still more efficient than burning gas in a million questionably maintained internal combustion engines.
- ip26 8y agoEV & hydrogen both make the fleet fuel-agnostic. Coal today, yes. But ten years from now, it could be anything, and the cars won't care.
- btian 8y agothe article was talking about B.C. Why are you talking about Alberta?
- danbolt 8y agoI was under the impression that Alberta and BC's energy consumption was quite interdependent. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_electricity_policy#Supply_interdependence_with_British_Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_electricity_policy#Sup...
- sintaxi 8y agoBC is powered with Hydro.