{"id":41211,"date":"2022-10-15T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41211"},"modified":"2022-10-15T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T10:32:01","slug":"coal-for-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41211","title":{"rendered":"Coal For Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Green_Goals-300x203.png\" alt=\"Green Goals\" width=\"616\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Green_Goals-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Green_Goals.png 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From a friend doing research&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The EU has 468 &#8211; building 27 more&#8230; Total 495<br \/>\nTurkey has 56 &#8211; building 93 more&#8230;<br \/>\nTotal 149<br \/>\nSouth Africa has 79 &#8211; building 24 more&#8230; Total 103<br \/>\nIndia has 589 &#8211; building 446 more&#8230;<br \/>\nTotal 1035<br \/>\nThe Philippines has 19 &#8211; building 60 more&#8230;Total 79<br \/>\nSouth Korea has 58 &#8211; building 26 more&#8230; Total of 84<br \/>\nJapan has 90 &#8211; building 45 more&#8230;<br \/>\nTotal 135<br \/>\nChina has 2,363 &#8211; building 1,171 more&#8230; Total = 3,534<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 5,615 projected coal-powered plants in just 8 countries.<\/p>\n<p>USA has 15 &#8211; building 0 more&#8230;Total = 15<br \/>\nAnd we have clean coal technology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat politicians with their &#8220;green new deal\u201d want to brainwash us and shut down those 15 plants in order to &#8220;save\u201d the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I had a rough idea about the number of coal plants but had not yet seen actual numbers until now.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the point. Whatever the USA does or doesn\u2019t do won\u2019t make a Tinker\u2019s Damn regarding CO2 unless the rest of the world, especially China and India reduce their coal-fired power plants as well.<\/p>\n<p>The whole \u201cglobal warming\u201d and \u201cclimate change\u201d gambits by Democrats are to create a supposedly sound, scientific basis to justify a federal government power-grab and the passage of MORE laws to increase taxes and increase control of the privately-owned power industry and its distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Never forget the main motivation they have!<br \/>\n\u201cOh, we will SAVE the planet!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*WAKE UP AMERICA (and Australia)!!!! We are being played \u2026.. again !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a friend doing research&#8230; The EU has 468 &#8211; building 27 more&#8230; Total 495 Turkey has 56 &#8211; building 93 more&#8230; Total 149 South Africa has 79 &#8211; building 24 more&#8230; Total 103 India has 589 &#8211; building 446 more&#8230; Total 1035 The Philippines has 19 &#8211; building 60 more&#8230;Total 79 South Korea has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coal For Energy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41213,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41211\/revisions\/41213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}