Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international criticism rises

Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by barney54 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:51AM (#19528955)

Meanwhile, across the East China Sea, China is building 50 GW of coal generation. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1R9003

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by vkou on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:42PM (#19530342)

The US has one third the population of China, and has been bringing up ~100GW of natural gas power plants/year over the past ten years. Which produce as much CO2 as 50 GW of coal power.

Today, the US has has ~1300GW of coal, and ~1400GW of natural gas. China has ~1000GW of coal, and 700GW of natural gas.

We are, quite literally, the pot pointing fingers at a kettle.

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by fungi on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:16AM (#19529029)

anyone know the date on that article?

there seems to be a spate of similar articles based on the greenpeace/sieara club satellite photo analysis report from september last year.

has any of it been confirmed?

edit: think this is the report ~> https://endcoal.org/global-coal-plant-tracker/reports/boom-a...

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by chdaniel on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:07AM (#19529006)

One at a time, let's hope

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