Plans to build a fleet of hydrogen power plants to supplement wind turbines and solar panels are faltering, amid a budgetary squeeze and demands for cost-cutting from industry.
Nuclear electricity is not a solution to loss of cheap, abundant fossil hydrocarbons. You are correct that this results in coal as the only option left.
Studies show that ash from coal power plants contains significant quantities of arsenic, lead, thallium, mercury, uranium and thorium. To generate the same amount of electricity, a coal power plant gives off at least ten times more radiation than a nuclear power plant.
Far more relevant is that coal can’t be used for agile power production, and domestic reserves are rapidly running out. And it can’t substitute for lack of cheap oil and gas for the same reason nuclear and renewable power can’t.
I’m leaving out greenhouse gas emissions because their actions show that nobody cares. At most it’s PR for the gullible.
Nuclear electricity is not a solution to loss of cheap, abundant fossil hydrocarbons. You are correct that this results in coal as the only option left.
Oh well!
Far more relevant is that coal can’t be used for agile power production, and domestic reserves are rapidly running out. And it can’t substitute for lack of cheap oil and gas for the same reason nuclear and renewable power can’t.
I’m leaving out greenhouse gas emissions because their actions show that nobody cares. At most it’s PR for the gullible.