China has coal mines...I remember several disasters associated with them. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-1-bln-tonsyear-new-coal-m

China has coal mines...I remember several disasters associated with them. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-1-bln-tonsyear-new-coal-mines-pipeline-report-says-2024-09-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-... >current large-scale coal mine capacity is 3.88 billion tons per year However Wiki does say that it's use is uneconomical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China Being polluting does make it cheap. The pollution controls, filters etc add nothing to generating capacity and only add cost.