Ian K said.. Yes it's good to be enthusiastic, but we're only sea breeze after all, there's sure too be folks in the energy game who've looked into the economics and new technologies a lot more closely than us. They don't seem to be writing coal off yet. It'd be wise to get off coal, but I just can't see the coal industry as being full of blinkered, stupid people shuffling deck chairs on a sinking ship.
If you believe Greenpeace coal consumption is down by 4% this year from last year.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2015/11/09/2015-the-year-global-coal-consumption-fell-off-a-cliff/ If you believe the Mineral Council of Australia it's rising.
littleblackrock.com.au/the-future-of-coal/ Here's a breakdown of plants under construction or approved for construction. From the mineral council of Australia's website. No mention of AGW of course.
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According to the international Energy Agency, the world will use 1 billion tonnes more coal in 2019 than today – more than 9 billion tonnes a year.19 There is more coal-fired electricity capacity in the investment pipeline than any other fuel (Figure 1).20 "
The coal industry can put out any information they wish.
Even they base the increase in consumption mostly on "poor countries" with people who can barely scratch to coins together.
It ain't going to happen anything like they say it will.
The west will be gradually dumping the use of coal for power generation.
We are the ones that use soooo much electricity, not the poor nations.
Ask someone in any of the major cities in China if they want more choking pollution than they currently have.
A mate who has been to India many times just came back and couldn't believe how much worse the air pollution was this time.
His lungs just couldn't cope with all the crap in the air.
Deaths in both countries out of control due to air pollution.
So nomadic tribes in Africa are going to take up the slack?
