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Weathered’s Maiya May visited a coal power plant as it was being decommissioned. Experts predict that coal use will peak globally in 2024, and begin to decline quickly as renewable energy is deployed. And blowing them up is the easiest way to get rid of the coal plants.
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Some places in the world are mitigating extreme pollution by upgrading or replacing super dirty coal plants with newer, slightly cleaner technology. Not really a solution, but perhaps helpful in the short term while 100% clean/renewable energy catches up. Any observations here?
Coal is not the dirtiest energy source wind power is due to being made of petrolium based composites, needing insane amounts of grease and other maintenance before ultimately being unrecyclable
China is adding a new coal plant every week.
Don't throw away the old until there is a replacement.
It will have to be nuclear to keep up with the population growth. Wind (the bird and bat killer) and solar will take decades and create their own environmental problems.
Womp womp it gives us electricity so me no care cause once it starts to do something I'll be probably dead by then proceeds to do the groove dance
Ya well we are, but how about China.
Out with the coal and In with the clean
England revently shut off it's last coal plant.
As someone who had been watching when the towers fell, I found this very sad. I know that no one should have been in it, but still.
Dramatic much? No one else flinched lol.
Glad to see coal on the way out though!
It's about time.
It's getting really depressing, honestly. The UN just announced (what we all knew) that we have zero shot of hitting our 2030 target. We've also increased emissions by 11% over the past two decades. I just don't see us coming out of this well, at all. It's… really sad.
Those radioactive dust clouds though
But coal plants are still useful
Coal plants adjacent to water treatment facilities can be rpurposed to make biochar, which can cover all of the energy for running it and more
With out nuclear power Earth has no future.
Haha
awesome
Aaah you were totally still on your feet
Remember your green car run on coal.
Don't get scammed
I love how everyone is just buying this trash
like thirty percent huh how exactly would one extrapolate that out
Factually incorrect. Burning firewood is dirtier than coal. Calorie for calorie, burning coal is better than burning wood.
Even today, there are many millions, too poor to afford anything but firewood for their cooking or heating needs. For them, getting electricity, even if it's from a coal fired plant, is a step UP in the quality of their lives.
Be grateful you have the luxury to call coal "dirty".
Boom! Coal has very few good uses that aren't for power and in a hundred years hopefully there will be no more coal plants anywhere. It's also still one of the most dangerous jobs to mine coal.
Renewable = even bigger hoax than coal oil and gas. Have fun ya’ll, be safe, it’s gonna be bumpy
The thumbnail is hysterical, I am sorry
It's unfortunate to have to lose buildings if they could repurpose them. Aren't some being converted to thermal energy storage and generation? (Taking coal out of the equation)
do u have snap
Were the people around you on a different time line from you when the shockwave came through? I wanted to see if they had a similar dramatic response but I guess it was edited out…
No, it didn’t knock her down. That’s why I watched it. Clickbait. This is bull.
I have to say bull shit. Here in Canada, all of our coal fired generation pants have been clean coal for the last 70 years. The exhaust out of the stacks have had less CO2 than the air they use in the burn!
The natural lakes being silted over to where the natural springs are no longer flowing is what caused 100 percent of global warming duh .
Why can't you just convert the power plant to nuclear instead of destroying it?
I'm in an area powered by coal. Our rain is so dirty that it leaves black stuff on everything. It's sticky and doesn't come off unless scrubbed off. Going through the car wash once with my white car left no impact on the coal build-up on my car. It eventually mostly wore off after a summer of near daily car washes. The last time I let it build up on my car I had to scrub it off by hand which took several hours. It's some nasty stuff.
I don't think I want to know what that's doing to my lungs.
THANKS ~ Pennsylvania here/ father was a miner::
I can get u a job – not healthy & we used to kill WHALES(for oil).thanks