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Old 11-15-2018, 01:15 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
I saw that china in 2017 installed something to the tune of 17 gigawatts worth of good enough for china coal plants where all the fly ash and sulfur goes out the smoke stack.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
From a Western perspective maybe but not for the reality of China. The vast majority of rural Chinese heat and cook with coal stoves. A new coal plant supplying electricity to a city is far better than a town full of people cooking over a coal stove.

China's coal consumption is actually going down not up even with all the new coal fired electrical plants. It peaked in 2013.
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