Stark reality of pollution in time-lapse of one of the worlds 50,000 coal fired power plants.
The following is an excerpt for the best selling expose’ ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went OUT. See the book here.
Looking at this time-lapse of a Coal Fired Power plant puts the 24/7 emissions from the worlds 50,000 power plants into a scary reality.
Coal is mostly used to produce electricity, and the world’s annual consumption is presently around 6.2 billion tonnes, with estimates that 75 percent of this figure or 4.65 billion tonnes is used to produce electricity in the world’s 50,000 coal-fired power stations. By 2020, a 50 percent projected increase in global demand will put consumption up to 9.3 billion tonnes annually.
Does anyone apart from me see the correlation between coal use and escalating greenhouse emissions over the period from now until 2020? Logic suggests, if we want to stop global warming, stop coal!
China produced 2.38 billion tonnes in 2006, while also being a net importer of coal including supplies from Australia.
Just over 83 percent of China’s electricity comes from coal-fired power stations and this is on the rise. The United States consumes about 1.053 billion tonnes using 90 percent of this for energy generation.
Posted: January 25th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, Foundation News, General.
Tags: Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Coal Fired Power Stations, Coal mining, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Stop Coal
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