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That’s great! Because there are [ONLY] 8500 coal power plants producing 20% of the CO2 emissions globally. Removing 20% of emissions will make a huge differenc
by melling 4y ago
That’s great! Because there are [ONLY] 8500 coal power plants producing 20% of the CO2 emissions globally.
Removing 20% of emissions will make a huge difference.
ETA on this should be around 2030?
What I don’t get is since solar is cheaper, why are we building so many coal power plants?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317274-china-is-building-more-than-half-of-the-worlds-new-coal-power-plants/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2317274-china-is-buildi...
- throitallaway 4y agoSolar generates electricity during the day. It would have to be overprovisioned and paired with storage in order to handle dark hours. There are some battery banks out there (Tesla), but I don't think they're very common. Coal handles baseline load. We should be using nuclear for baseline instead.