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

Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by akg_67 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @08:02AM (#19528992)

The decision may have more to do with plans to bring back online nuclear power generation capacity that was offline since 2011. Majority of coal-fired power generation capacity was already idle and being mothballed before 2011. Only reason a lot of coal-gen capacity was restarted after 2011 because there was no other option for producing electricity as nuclear power accounted for most of the supply.

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by ThomPete on Saturday March 30, 2019 @04:15PM (#19531560)

Which illustrates perfectly well why the idea that wind and solar can deliver our base energy needs just isn't warranted.

It's great as auxiliary powers but not an actual solution.

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by skybrian on Saturday March 30, 2019 @07:24PM (#19532615)

Maybe, maybe not. Different countries have different resources available to them, and we don't know what they tried.

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Re:Japan to rule out coal-fired plants as international crit... by ThomPete on Sunday March 31, 2019 @06:49AM (#19534872)

We know that Germany who focused on using dolar has failed miserably and we know that france who focused on nuclear hasnt. No modern country get their main supply of energy from wind or solar but have to use coal and oil to make it work. And the countries who boast with using a lot of alternatives also have much higher consumption prices because they are subsidizing their politically based energy policy.

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