Why the world cannot quit coal
www.ft.com
Ten years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, demand for coal shows no sign of peaking

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The big thing that’s happening is that while North America and Europe are cutting coal use, third world use coal-burning is increasing even faster.

  • dinren@discuss.online
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    10 days ago

    99% is over half. And is it just over half of the growth, or does that include part of it before the growth. And what percent was that? And (sorry) source?

    There’s a lot of infrastructure cost too. New things to buy or make. It’s CHEAPER to use coal because coal is basically free and the infrastructure to use it exists.

    I’m not arguing for coal, yucky, but companies and investors don’t go for less profit.