China’s coal plants are nearly as clean as its gas plants after being outfitted with emissions reduc

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https://www.chinaknowledge.com/News/DetailNews/85234/China’s-coal-plants-

Feb 14, 2019 (China Knowledge) - A to the Chinese government this week, three quarters of the country’s coal power generation plants have been fitted with emission-reducing technology to make them among the world’s cleanest coal plants.

To date, at least 700 gigawatts (GW) worth of power plants have been fitted with “ultra-low emission” technologies, hitting the country’s target of having 580 GW of coal plants being equipped with the technology 2 years ahead of schedule.

Currently, emissions of soot, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from China’s coal plants are at comparable levels to those of its gas power plants, meaning that their emission levels are lower than that of developed countries by more than 50%.

China still continues to have significant overcapacity in its power generation due to inefficiencies across its grids which leads to more older plants continuing to be in use. These old plants would have been redundant and phased out should China be able to better utilize its generated renewable energy.

However, the country is certainly making progress in its move towards green energy will coal consumption accounting for just 60% of China’s total energy consumption last year, down by 9.5 percentage points since 2012.

At the moment, with many coal plants still in operation, applying strict emission standards will go a long way in helping to keep emission levels now.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

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https://www.chinaknowledge.com/News/DetailNews/85234/China’s-coal-plants-

Feb 14, 2019 (China Knowledge) - A to the Chinese government this week, three quarters of the country’s coal power generation plants have been fitted with emission-reducing technology to make them among the world’s cleanest coal plants.

To date, at least 700 gigawatts (GW) worth of power plants have been fitted with “ultra-low emission” technologies, hitting the country’s target of having 580 GW of coal plants being equipped with the technology 2 years ahead of schedule.

Currently, emissions of soot, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from China’s coal plants are at comparable levels to those of its gas power plants, meaning that their emission levels are lower than that of developed countries by more than 50%.

China still continues to have significant overcapacity in its power generation due to inefficiencies across its grids which leads to more older plants continuing to be in use. These old plants would have been redundant and phased out should China be able to better utilize its generated renewable energy.

However, the country is certainly making progress in its move towards green energy will coal consumption accounting for just 60% of China’s total energy consumption last year, down by 9.5 percentage points since 2012.

At the moment, with many coal plants still in operation, applying strict emission standards will go a long way in helping to keep emission levels now.

Great improvements.
However, been reading for the last few years that there is no such thing is clean coal , like the following link,

There's no such thing as clean coal

That’s because in addition to carbon dioxide, coal powered plants emit a host of noxious pollutants. For example, each year, coal fired plants pump out 146,000 tons of PM2.5 pollution, a form of particulate matter roughly 40 times smaller than a grain of sand. They also pump out 197,000 tons of PM10 pollution, a form of particulate matter or dust that’s 10 microns big. That’s small enough to slip through your typical mesh filter. Because PM2.5 and PM10 pollution are so small, when we release these particles into the atmosphere they don’t just stay there; we breathe them in. The pollution lodges deep within our lungs, which haven’t exactly evolved to handle this kind of invasion. As a result, PM pollution causes health issues ranging from asthma to heart attacks. A study released earlier this year found that every year, 3.45 million people worldwide die an early death due to PM 2.5 pollution alone.

https://www.popsci.com/coal-power-plants-cpp

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Great improvements.
However, been reading for the last few years that there is no such thing is clean coal , like the following link,

There's no such thing as clean coal

That’s because in addition to carbon dioxide, coal powered plants emit a host of noxious pollutants. For example, each year, coal fired plants pump out 146,000 tons of PM2.5 pollution, a form of particulate matter roughly 40 times smaller than a grain of sand. They also pump out 197,000 tons of PM10 pollution, a form of particulate matter or dust that’s 10 microns big. That’s small enough to slip through your typical mesh filter. Because PM2.5 and PM10 pollution are so small, when we release these particles into the atmosphere they don’t just stay there; we breathe them in. The pollution lodges deep within our lungs, which haven’t exactly evolved to handle this kind of invasion. As a result, PM pollution causes health issues ranging from asthma to heart attacks. A study released earlier this year found that every year, 3.45 million people worldwide die an early death due to PM 2.5 pollution alone.

https://www.popsci.com/coal-power-plants-cpp

Nothing in the industrial world is clean. Not solar. Not wind. Not nuclear. Some pollution is good for people. Builds up people's immune system and kills off the weak.