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New coal plants will be clean burning and they'll be in use for a long time. China's biggest coal problem is the coal burned in homes in their cities for cooking and heating. A lot of Chinese use little coal stoves like these:




...... China is third in the world in terms of total coal reserves. It is the largest coal producer in the world, with the world’s largest (and deadliest) coal mining industry. It is also the largest consumer of coal in the world. Over half of the coal is used to make electricity, another third is used by industry, some is used in district heating plants, leaving a mere 3% to be used in residences. But you sure see that 3%.You see them shoveling up huge chunks of coal – I was astonished at how big the chunks are; they have come straight from the coal face – you see them trucking it around, and piled up in street corners.



And more than anything you see China’s version of molded coal, which looks like this:



You see them transporting it around on the tricycles which I wrote about in an earlier post:



You see it piled up outside houses:



Then it’s burned in these special stoves:



which leaves behind the consumed molds which you see in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture. Cities’ rubbish is littered with these discards.



All this coal burning leaves a taste in the air, a taste which instantly takes me back to my early years in the UK, when you would walk through a town or village and smell the sharp, acidic taste of coal being burned.

And it gives rise to smog:


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