"Carbon emissions from UK power stations have increased by nearly 30% over the past eight years, putting the government's climate change targets under threat, a report showed today.
The report, compiled for environmental group WWF, shows that in 2006 alone emissions rose by 6% to reach 178m tonnes, as high gas prices led to an increased use of coal to produce electricity.
The power sector's emissions have now reached the highest level since 1992, cancelling out all of the gains from the so-called "dash for gas", which saw emissions fall from 201m tonnes in 1990 to 139m in 1999, the report said."
Source: The Guardian
Who in their right mind use coal to produce electricity? Don't they see the connection between the use of coal and high emissions of carbon dioxide? Idiots!!!
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Cleaner Coal Is Attracting Some Doubts
"Within the next few years, power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants to meet growing electricity demands. Despite expectations that globalwarming rules are coming, almost none of the plants will be built to capture the thousands of tons of carbon dioxide that burning coal spews into the atmosphere.
Environmentalists are worried, but they put their faith in a technology that gasifies the coal before burning. Such plants are designed, they say, to be more adaptable to separating the carbon and storing it underground.
Most utility officials counter that the gasification approach is more expensive and less reliable, but they say there is no need to worry because their tried-and-true method, known as pulverized coal, can also be equipped later with hardware to capture the globalwarming gas.
But now, influential technical experts are casting doubts on both approaches."
Source: The New York Times
Seriously, why would anyone want to build 150 coal plants? I realise some people don't think the threat of globalwarming is real, but this is just ridicolous. Anyone with half a brain would abandon these plans.
Environmentalists are worried, but they put their faith in a technology that gasifies the coal before burning. Such plants are designed, they say, to be more adaptable to separating the carbon and storing it underground.
Most utility officials counter that the gasification approach is more expensive and less reliable, but they say there is no need to worry because their tried-and-true method, known as pulverized coal, can also be equipped later with hardware to capture the globalwarming gas.
But now, influential technical experts are casting doubts on both approaches."
Source: The New York Times
Seriously, why would anyone want to build 150 coal plants? I realise some people don't think the threat of globalwarming is real, but this is just ridicolous. Anyone with half a brain would abandon these plans.
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