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Conventional energy generation, which in India means burning cheap but dirty local coal, is a mess.
And China, which also has lots of unexploited shale gas, has few scruples about burning cheap coal.
For India stresses that its prime national objective is economic development to pull its 1.25 billion people out of poverty, and, at the moment, that will be powered by burning cheap coal.
That seems like a pretty high premium to pay, but Mr. Tobe argues that the reason to consider solar power in the first place is that the environmental consequences of burning cheap coal are not factored into our energy bills, and the financial bottom line should not be the motivation for going solar.
For the U.S. and China, the climate talks boil down to how much money the rich world will give poorer nations to help them acquire the technology to limit emissions and cope with the droughts, rising sea levels, and other effects caused by those who enjoyed two hundred years of burning cheap fossil fuels.
If we do that, we must ensure that the far greater amounts of carbon trapped as coal (and unconventional resources like tar sands) never enter the atmosphere.The snag is that poor countries are likely to continue burning cheap domestic reserves of coal for decades.
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And those hours are being used up already, as the high price of natural gas makes burning cheaper coal attractive now.This looming double whammy has led to forecasts of shortages as the amount of spare capacity in the system drops.
A major issue regarding biomass resources is crop residues or leftover biomass that is burnt by farmers after harvesting; this happens due to high transportation costs which make burning the cheapest way to remove the residue.
And, by promising to capture 90% of its carbon, SCS Energy can get away with burning the cheapest but dirtiest source of baseload fuel (coal) in the most expensive retail electricity market in the country.
Shindell says it's useful for U.S. facilities, like wastewater treatment plants, to share their technological know-how on collecting and selling the gas or burning it for cheap power.
Much of it is created by the widespread burning of cheap coal in old home stoves, producing smoke rife with carcinogens like dioxins and benzo(a pyrene, as well as the small sooty particles that are strongly linked to heart, breathing and even cognitive ailments.
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