[Coral-List] FW: Remost meetings

[Paulay,Gustav]

Interesting stats Gene.  So surprising that I looked into it - 15 coal powered plants in the US seemed like a very small number.  It is.  Just google “coal power plants in us” and it is much more sobering, even if gradually improving.  From Wikipedia:

Coal power<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power> in the United States accounted for 39% of the country's electricity production at utility-scale facilities in 2014, 33% in 2015, 30.4% in 2016, 30.0% in 2017, and 27.4% in 2018.[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States#cite_note-2> Coal supplied 12.6 quadrillion BTUs of primary energy<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_energy> to electric power plants in 2017, which made up 91% of coal's contribution to US energy supply.[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States#cite_note-3> Utilities buy more than 90% of the coal consumed in the United States.[4]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States#cite_note-4> … The average share of electricity generated from coal in the US has dropped from 52.8% in 1997 to 27.4% in 2018.[7]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States#cite_note-eia.doe.gov-7> In 2017, there were 359 coal-powered units at the electrical utilities across the US, with a total nominal capacity of 256 GW<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigawatts>[8]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_the_United_States#cite_note-8> (compared to 1024 units at nominal 278 GW in 2000)

Cheers - Gustav

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Those of you concerned about global pollution from air travel might be interested in some data I received this morning.I assume these data regarding the numbers of coal fired power plants on our planet is somewhat correct. Would still be scary even if there were half as many ..

Number of coal fired power plants in various countries:

*The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total  495*

*Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total  149*

*South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total  103*

*India has 589 - building 446 more... Total  1036*

*Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total  79*

*South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84*

*Japan has 90 - building 45 more... Total 135*

*China has 2,363 - building 1,171 more... Total 3,534*

*_USA has 15 - building 0 more...Total 15_*

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