• China to close 1,725 coal mines in an effort to lower its reliance on coal and cut pollution
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[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/04/us-china-coal-idUSBREA330QQ20140404[/url] [quote]China will close 1,725 small-scale mines with a total capacity of 117.48 million tonnes in 2014 as part of its programme to phase out low-quality coal production, its energy administration said on Friday. Smog-hit China has been desperate to reduce coal consumption, a major source of pollutants, including hazardous airborne particulate matter in the country's cities. Beijing hopes to close old and depleting mines in the east and consolidate output in a series of "coal energy bases" in remote parts of the country, including the vast northwestern regions of Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang. The National Energy Administration said in a notice posted on its website ([url]www.nea.gov.cn[/url]) that local governments must also encourage mergers and technological upgrades in a fragmented coal sector long plagued by poor safety standards. They will be obliged to disclose the details of their pit closure program to the public in order to improve enforcement.[/quote]
Meanwhile in the US what you hear from the right is that Coal is clean and cheap energy fuel source.
Holy shit, all at once in one year? No wonder China is building like, more nuclear reactors right now than the rest of the world altogether.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44457619]Holy shit, all at once in one year? No wonder China is building like, more nuclear reactors right now than the rest of the world altogether.[/QUOTE] That, and nuclear power is best power.
We haven't been mining the nasty high sulfur coal here in the states in big volume for a long time. Clean air act largely made the higher sulfur mines uneconomical, or required that they mix down with lower sulfur coals. US coal definitely isn't as cheap as Chinese coal in part because we don't care to kill a few thousand miners in mine accidents each year here in the states. By and large though powder river basin sub-bituminous coal is much cleaner than that crap they are pulling out of these mom and pop mines in China. In the next decade or so I would expect that china will increase their imports of (relatively) cleaner burning coal from the US, as it becomes more economically viable for US mines to barge overseas as oppose to selling in the states as they lose customers.
Their only doing it because the pollution is so bad that the smog literally [URL="http://world.time.com/2013/11/06/smog-blocks-chinas-surveillance-cameras/"]disables their surveillance network.[/URL]
And to point out, most Chinese nuclear reactors produce significantly less power wattage compared to the West.
[QUOTE=Der Ubermensch;44459458]And to point out, most Chinese nuclear reactors produce significantly less power wattage compared to the West.[/QUOTE] Any source on that?
As good as it is to start resorting to cleaner energy, this is gonna destroy a shit-ton of jobs.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;44460188]As good as it is to start resorting to cleaner energy, this is gonna destroy a shit-ton of jobs.[/QUOTE] The Chinese know that. In fact a large part of what props up the tottering Communist Party is that they keep unemployment low, wages rising, and stability in check. I can see them quite easily finding jobs for these workers to do, even if they are shit jobs created for political reasons.
[QUOTE=Aide;44457556]Meanwhile in the US what you hear from the right is that Coal is clean and cheap energy fuel source.[/QUOTE] ironically coal can be treated to burn clean, supposedly but i've yet to find any proof of this process.
[QUOTE=Dark One;44460430]ironically coal can be treated to burn clean, supposedly but i've yet to find any proof of this process.[/QUOTE] Doesn't it involve channelling the acrid fumes into an alkaline solution to produce gypsum? I heard of that many years ago.
[QUOTE=Der Ubermensch;44459458]And to point out, most Chinese nuclear reactors produce significantly less power wattage compared to the West.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Adeptus;44460163]Any source on that?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors[/url] Seems he wasn't really telling the truth, which usually is the case when someone makes a sensational statement without any source.
[QUOTE=ironman17;44460461]Doesn't it involve channelling the acrid fumes into an alkaline solution to produce gypsum? I heard of that many years ago.[/QUOTE] if I'm honest i only heard a brief mention of it on a debit show a few years back, strangely enough they want to open more coal power planets here even with the recent fires that [I]we believe have actually set the underground mines and the coal veins alight[/I] because the amount of smoke those areas.
[QUOTE=Der Ubermensch;44459458]And to point out, most Chinese nuclear reactors produce significantly less power wattage compared to the West.[/QUOTE] Uh, no it doesn't. China is actually working on getting a CANDU reactor up and running to run 'waste' fuel from their current reactors. Otherwise they use French, German, and American Pressurized Boiler Reactors. No difference from what the west uses. [editline]5th April 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Sobotnik;44460369]The Chinese know that. In fact a large part of what props up the tottering Communist Party is that they keep unemployment low, wages rising, and stability in check. I can see them quite easily finding jobs for these workers to do, even if they are shit jobs created for political reasons.[/QUOTE] Shove 'em into the uranium mines. Same toilet different shit. :v:
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