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What do you suggest they do to keep more than 1 billion people warm in the winter?
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
It's actually mostly residential and small commercial buildings. They use a lot of coal for heat and don't have the option of anthracite.
There are many options... They still have a command style economy but they opted for the cheapest energy source. This is the result when you use cheap coal and have bad regulations.
Such as what? Estimates are they use about 4 to 5 billion tons per year, the US uses 1 billion tons. 5 billion tons is about 110,000,000,000,000,000 BTU's. It's what they have available, you aren't going to replace that overnight, a few years or even in a few decades. The only thing that is going to change is how they use it with increased pollution controls, it's really their only choice since it's the one fuel they have a large quantity of domestically.
China is going to expand their renewable energy profile because they have little choice in that either, at the rate their are going now they will burn through their domestic supply in the next 3 to 4 decades. Replacement of coal is going to take decades and in the meantime they are going to burn every piece of coal they can get their hands on, they are importing large quantities now some of it coming from here.
Yes and yet we have a country full of CINOS who don't have the brain power to understand why we need an EPA.
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