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To: TobagoJack who wrote (128119)	1/11/2017 7:22:18 AM
From: stsimon	2 Recommendations Recommended By dvdw© ggersh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218105

The problem with coal isn't that it is a dirty fuel that is bad for all of us, which it is, but that as a 19th century fuel it has too complex a supply chain. It has to be dug out of the ground, washed to get the dust and rock out of it, loaded onto to trucks, trains, or ships, transported to a power plant, stored onsite in huge piles, burned in giant boilers, have its many contaminants removed from the emissions stream, process the toxic coal ash byproduct, and repeat. Renewable energy has no such complex supply chain. Renewables to have an intermittency problem, but that is on its way of being solved with improved energy storage technology and smart grid technology. China will eventually go almost 100% renewable because it will make business sense to do so.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (128119)	1/12/2017 1:25:41 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218105

Build clean exhaust systems from power stations and produce or buy vehicles powered by electricity using Halo recharging and battery swap 7SSS [tm], [seven second swap stop], soon to be autonomous and Uberized so that only a fraction of the number of privately owned cars are needed. <<am guessing at some juncture china would need perhaps only 300B of foreign exchange reserve, because what is the 3T reserve for? the stuff just keeps coming in as natural consequence of trade surplus, a flow and mustn't be hoarded like a reservoir, a 'reserve' reserve is worse than useless so ... build build build, and export at the margin, and build some more>> China's air quality is hideous and they inflict it on downwind people too. A lot of engineering will be needed to make exhausts clean or replace them with electric cars. Reserves are not much use to have. What's needed is people working doing good things such as producing clean air and clean transport that is cheap, convenient, safe and fast. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (128119)	1/17/2017 12:01:39 AM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Recommended By Elroy Jetson Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218105

>> China to plow $361 billion into renewable fuel by 2020 << Sounds good. China's oil production is falling sharply ... China's Oil Collapse Is Unintentionally Helping OPEC bloomberg.com OPEC’s campaign to prop up oil prices is getting unlikely support from its biggest customer. China’s production is forecast to fall by as much as 7 percent this year, extending a record decline in 2016, according to analysts at CLSA Ltd., Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and Nomura Holdings Inc. That’s about the same size as the output cut agreed by Iraq, the second-biggest producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which late last year reached a deal to trim supply to support prices.