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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by scotty79 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:23PM (#23472091)
Poland looks horrible when you count CO2 per kWh. But pretty good if you count CO2 per capita per unit of time. We use so little energy per capita when compared to western world that our CO2 emissions look better than some bit greener countries (for example UK or Germany) despite getting nearly all of energy from coal.
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by renaudg on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:19PM (#23472527)
Not really, Poland burns so much coal that even the absolute numbers don't look great : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-lignite-plants-e...
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Re:Britain has gone two months without burning coal to gener... by scotty79 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:42AM (#23475133)
These seem to be specifically CO2 emissions from coal. When you look at total CO2 from all energy sources Poland fares better also than UK or Czechia I think.

We also buy less stuff and are not really into eating cows.

I'm not saying it's great. We are bad, but in total not as bad as this map suggests: https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/CO2-emissions-per-capita

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