They are banning individuals from using coal for residential heating and cooking. This is a very inefficient way to burn coal.
They want people to use electricity and natural gas heaters and ovens.
Posted on 08/05/2014 1:40:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
BEIJING (AP) — China's smog-plagued capital has announced that it will ban all coal sales and use by the end of 2020 as part of its anti-pollution fight.
Beijing's Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau posted the plan on its website on Monday, saying the city will instead prioritize electricity and natural gas, especially for heating.
China's official Xinhua News Agency said coal accounted for a quarter of Beijing's energy consumption in 2012.
Even with the Beijing ban, coal use is expected to soar in China. Coal is a major generator of greenhouse gases and has helped turn China into the world's largest emitter of carbon and other heat-trapping gases.
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So they are moving the plants outside of the city.
Thus giving rise to the expression: “A cold winter in hell.”
Where is Chairman Mao? This sounds like one of his five (maybe six)-year plans.
Burning coal for heat (especially high sulfur coal) causes smog.
So they will have to convert their furnaces to electricity or gas.
They are banning individuals from using coal for residential heating and cooking. This is a very inefficient way to burn coal.
They want people to use electricity and natural gas heaters and ovens.
BS
“How do they do that?”
They can.
They don’t have to deal with an anti-China political party intend on running their country to the ground. The idea of burning coal in private houses in a city like that is INSANE and does need to be stopped. They’ll just have to build more power plants, even faster than they’re doing already.
Stands to reason.
Buy gas from Russia.
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