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The good news about this is that adding emmision controls and scrubbing equipment to coal fired plants is a lot easier than doing the same with a lot of cars.
The Chinese are also going towards clean coal technology (Coal Gasification). The efficiency of the clean coal plants can get within a few percent of natural gas fired plants, if done properly. The initial cost is way higher, though.
The Chinese, while they are going through growing pains, are no where near as bad as we were. And they have the benefit of modern technology, which we did not when we industrialized. China ALWAYS lead the world. It was only for the last 500 years that they closed themselves off from the rest of the world.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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