But the Chinese can’t hack into months of fuel stocks at coal plants.
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Natural gas pipelines vulnerable to Chinese hackers?
Coal-haters go after UNC power plant, courtesy of Obama war-on-coal rule
Canada dials back CO2 tax on coal plants to make power affordable
Carbon taxes accomplish zero except to pointlessly raise the price of electricity. Also recall that last week, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau admitted that Canadian emissions were irrelevant to climate.
Coal improves public health
The comment by Marxist ex-UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, below, is totally false. Check our Manifesto for how coal improves public health. As to the public health claims made by Figueres, you should know:
- Coal burning harms no one’s health anywhere. Decades of scientific research, including that conducted by the US EPA, prove this.
- Modern coal plants don’t harm air quality because they are efficient and emissions are scrubbed. They are not associated with air quality problems anywhere.
- Residential/industrial coal burning can contribute to aesthetic air quality problems (i.e., visbility) in places like China and India if it is inefficient, unscrubbed and concentrated.
- More modern coal plants in China and India would improve air quality by reducing inefficient and unscrubbed subsistence burning of fuels like coal briquettes and biomass.
BTW, Figueres also wants to depopulate the planet.
Sources: 1. ClimateChangeNews.com Web | PDF 2. UN Climate Chief: Communism is best to fight global warming, DailyCaller.com Web | PDF 3. UN Official: We Should Make Every Effort to Depopulate the Planet, OSNetDaily.com Web | PDF
Power plant closures squeeze drywall makers who turn a type of coal waste into wallboard
US coal plants produced about 32 million tons of synthetic gypsum in 2017 — about twice as much as they sold to companies that recycle it for wallboard, cement and agriculture. Switching to mined gypsum is not always feasible. Synthetic gypsum is, in most cases, purer than the natural form.
State: Coal-to-diesel plant not expected to affect air quality
US Coal On Track For Record Capacity Decline, Closing 15.4 Gigawatts
Weather is not climate, Irish government tells its forecasters
” We can’t say if the event is a result of climate change…”
Source: The Times (Subscription required)
We also love coal-to-diesel
This planned coal-to-diesel plant would create 225 permanent jobs and 2,000 construction jobs — in addition to the jobs created by mining 1.6 million tons of coal annually. The process doesn’t burn coal — instead, coal particles are hydrogenated at high pressure and temperature — but it’s a great beneficial use of coal.
Sources: 1. Associated Press Web | PDF;2. Dubois County Herald Web | PDF