Global investment in coal tumbles by 75% in three years

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More coal power stations around the world came offline last year than were approved for perhaps first time since industrial revolution, report says

The former industrial zone is now a green lung near DusseldorfThe land around the mine is now a kind of parkZollverein's main shaft has become the symbol of the areaThe old pool in the mineJochen Tack/Stiftung ZollvereinThe former industrial zone is now a green lung near DusseldorfThe land around the mine is now a kind of parkZollverein's main shaft has become the symbol of the areaThe old pool in the mineJochen Tack/Stiftung ZollvereinFurthermore, the rate at which coal power plants...

 

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1o5CleanEnergy Non-polluting renewable energy is preferred

Using the term 'open cast' when you mean lignite is deliberately misleading. Lignite is 2x as polluting as harder coals. Germany are addicted to cheap, open cast lignite. They use more now than they did 20 yrs ago. 20 years ago 38% of energy worldwide was coal, today still 38%.

Have you checked with Germany & Poland? They use 40%+ & 80%+ coal in their energy mix. The majority of which is the grossly polluting brown coal - lignite.

Natural gas is the best alternative, not 100 percent clean but much cleaner than coal.

Nat Gas, liquid or otherwise Chilled, here to Stay...

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