Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/22/2010 1:55:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
fyi
Now that they own the US government, they can always take ours—especially since our watermelon environmentalists won’t let us use it anymore.</sarc>
Don’t know much about coal, but have heard peak oil since the 70s. Of course there are a lot less people in the world today and no one drives anymore...
My guess is, if they get constrained on coal, they'll just change that date, make it a little later, and let some people freeze until they can build up their infrastructure.
It's not like China cares much about people protesting. =/
Chinese coal seam fires produce more CO2 annually than all the US cars and light duty trucks.
Interesting, do you have a reference...would love to share with a few of my green "friends".
When the day is done, China will not be able to limit its consumption of coal...they are industrializing too fast to try something like that. You’ve got to remember that many of the current coal fired power plants were built without the government’s approval (regional provinces authorized them). The same thing will happen if the government tries to limit coal consumption. China will simply import more coal from Australia and Indonesia.
“In China alone, the figures given by various scientific groups vary in this regard. According to reports of the Beijing Remote Sensing Corporation (BRSC), Aerophotogrammetry and Remote Sensing Bureau of China Coal (ARSC) and works of Professor Guan Haiyan from China, the annual loss of coal due to coal fires in China is between 10 to 20 million tons. However, figures given by Rozema et al. in 1993 are 10 times higher which means that 100 to 200 million tons of coal are lost due to coal fires in China. Assuming these latter figures to be a realistic measure of the coal being burnt, the CO2 emitted, solely due to these fires, would amount to 2 to 3 percent of the world’s total CO2 emission due to fossil fuels. “
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030215coalenviro4p4.asp
The Chinese fires also make a big, hidden contribution to global warming through the greenhouse effect, scientists said. Each year they release 360 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, as much as all the cars and light trucks in the United States.
A double whammy of reality preceding the Cancun COP16 climate summit
I see no problem with the Chinese running out of coal or energy sources.
All they need to do is to consult with the American proponents of alternate (but green) energy sources and they’ll be set for life.
The other fact is that their coal usage will peak and then decline, just as it happened in the west. Also, their peak coal consumption is coming around pretty soon. 20 years, and their population will be dropping, not increasing.
Twenty five percent of the solids (particles) in the air in the Los Angeles Basin presently comes from China.
The air is filthy here,...messes up all my fans on my computers.
"In one severe dust storm in 1998, particle pollution levels in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia soared. In Seattle, air-quality officials could not identify a local source of the pollution, but measurements showed that 75 per cent of it came from China.
"A larger fraction of the haze we see is Asian, far more than we ever dreamed," said Tom Cahill, professor of atmospheric science and physics at the University of California, Davis."
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