To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1069155 ) 5/14/2018 8:38:16 PM From: Sdgla 1 RecommendationRecommended By locogringo
Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1575837 Sorry comrat.. you shouldn’t be in the dark on all such issues. Muellers prosecutorial misconduct is already in the public domain. All charges against Manafort, Cohen & Flynn will be dismissed and you will once again be stuck with having to deal with your mental shortcomings. Also : Now consider what's happening just in India. According to a big report put out by the Indian government in August 2017 , there are some 304 million Indians without access to electricity; and India plans to get them electricity mostly by building more coal plants :Coal will maintain its dominant share of India’s electricity production for decades to come, according to a major report from the government’s planning institute. The Three Year Action Agenda , released on Thursday by the National Institution for Transforming India (Niti Aayog), laid out a nine-point plan for boosting coal production in India in order to feed increasing demand from India’s coal power sector. India has 304 million people without access to electricity, the report said, which necessitated growth in all parts of the energy sector. “The reality of India’s energy sector is that around three-quarters of our power comes from coal-powered plants and this scenario will not change significantly over the coming decades,” said the report. Let's make a rough estimate of how much additional CO2 emissions will come from just that one expansion of India's electricity capacity. The 304 million Indians now without electricity are about 5 times the population of New York and California combined. Coal produces on average about double the CO2 emissions per unit of energy produced as the mix of sources used by New York and California. So providing mostly coal-based electricity to 304 million new Indian customers will produce something in the range of 6 billion tons CO2 equivalent annually of CO2 emissions. This will be around 10 times the total emissions of New York and California, and around 25 times the hoped-for 40% reduction in emissions that New York and California think they might achieve by 2030. Why again are we doing this? And that's just considering India's efforts to provide electricity for these 304 million people. The German consultancy Urgewald reported in July 2017 on plans over the next decade by Chinese companies to build more than 700 coal power plants around the world, at a pace described as "frenzied." And even that was only half of the 1600 such plants planned by all developers worldwide over the next decade. A 1 MW coal plant (about the usual size they build) can be expected to produce about 6 million tons of CO2 emissions per year. So 1600 such plants will produce around 9.6 billion tons of CO2 emissions. Thats about 16 times the total annual emissions of New York and California, and 40 times the reduction they are hoping for. And that's only in the next decade. And now, how much are we going to force up our cost of energy in order to achieve this 40% emissions reduction? Double? Triple? Quintuple?