| | | You might find this article interesting... came out a couple or so years ago, written by James Fallows for the Atlantic Monthly (a fairly liberal journalist) who wrote that coal is essential to the world and China is probably the best hope the world has in developing better and better ways to use it. I found it fascinating and persuasive.
FWIW, Fallows walks the walk, too -- he moved his entire family (including kids) to China for several years to learn and write about it first hand. His credentials and credibility are quite high, IMO.
"Dirty Coal, Clean Future
To environmentalists, “clean coal” is an insulting oxymoron. But for now, the only way to meet the world’s energy needs, and to arrest climate change before it produces irreversible cataclysm, is to use coal—dirty, sooty, toxic coal—in more-sustainable ways. The good news is that new technologies are making this possible. China is now the leader in this area, the Google and Intel of the energy world. If we are serious about global warming, America needs to work with China to build a greener future on a foundation of coal. Otherwise, the clean-energy revolution will leave us behind, with grave costs for the world’s climate and our economy."
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