They must have been very naughty to have so much coal.
Unintended catastrophic environmental consequences of the Green New Deal, coming right up.
Yeah, and China is planning to build 24-43 new coal-fired power plants and 18 new blast furnaces....
Further more: Coal-fired power accounts for roughly 60% of China’s total electricity generation. Over the first three quarters of 2021, China’s power generation expanded by 11% on the year, but power consumption grew by 13% as heavy industry and manufacturers cranked up output as coronavirus pandemic restrictions eased.
Someone is smoking crack me’thinks.
Does Greta sternly lecture the Communists in China over this?
Didn’t think so.
Using what’s available and throwing the Global Warming Nuts on the fire with the coal
Both these countries recognize that improvements in the standard of living for the citizens comes from the use of electricity to pump runing water, provide energy to cook, etc.
Wind and solar will never come close to providing the energy to obtain those goals for 2-3 billion people.
Meanwhile while India and China belch coal fumes, California has just outlawed gasoline lawn mowers and hedge trimmers. There is very little common sense on this planet anymore.
Australia makes tens of billions annually selling the stuff to China/India & the rest of Asia, while shutting down its own coal-fired power plants and replacing them (unsuccessfully) with Chinese solar panels and wind turbines!
15 Dec: Daily Mail UK: Turbines made in China for Australia’s biggest wind farm have CRACKS in them sparking outrage they weren’t made locally to better standards
Cracks discovered in 19 Chinese-made wind turbines at Stockyard Hill wind farm
Defects were discovered when union members inspected the giant machines
Stockyard Hill management said the operations of the turbines not affected
By PETER VINCENT
Nineteen of 40 turbines inspected at the Stockyard Hill wind farm, in Victoria’s central highlands, are defective and will take months to fix, according to the Australian Manufacturing Worker’s Union.
Another 109 turbines were yet to be inspected and it was feared they could also be damaged...
The massive wind farm, which is Australia’s biggest, was operating for less than five months...
The project was started by Windpower Australia, then sold to Origin Energy, which sold it to Xinjiang Goldwind, a Chinese-owned company, for $110 million.
Goldwind, which owns or operates nine wind and solar farms in Australia, is part of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co, the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturer, based in Beijing.
Goldwind is listed on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges, but 40 per cent of its top 10 investors are owned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party...
The union found the damage, which is on the ‘top cover housing key mechanics’ behind the blades, when it inspected the turbines.
It claims repairs will take up to 76 weeks ‘and they still haven’t inspected all of the towers’...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10311315/China-wind-turbines-crack-sparking-outrage-werent-Australia.html
manmade gloBULL warming is the biggest “scientific” scam of all.
Where the heck is our scold, Gretta Tunberg? How dare they! (Damn! She still makes me angry.)
It takes a lot of energy to produce those stupid solar panels and lithium mining equipment.
I remember traveling in China in the 90s and seeing coal fired trains. Bet they still have them today. Never understood why China was exempted from so-called climate change guidelines
Surprise, surprise, surprise…
Hopefully the surprise and shock at the IEA doesn’t trigger their folks or the participants at the COP whatever meeting…
Meanwhile we here in the USA need to live with brownouts and blackouts and give up driving.
—doing their part to stave off the next ice age—
China said they will be using more coal for the next 20 years and then they will level off...
And, yet, America is supposed to save the planet? IF this climate change crap is ‘fixable’...I’m guessing it will take the WHOLE PLANET...
They need the energy to make the solar cells!
Killing the energy sector in this country is one of their goals while the rest of the world pollutes