A "cold" coal-fueled powerplant can take more than a day to come online. Such a plant is useless for dealing with unpredictable intermittency. A "hot" coal plant with zero net generation continues to consume minimal amounts of fuel, but can respond to intermittency.
why so negative on coal...? there is abundant scientific literature that proves that actually LNG is "worse fro the climate" than coal if you just include methane alone. we need all reliable, affordable way to generate electricity including coal and gas, but the constant pounding on the lowest cost, and most reliable, simplest form of generation, coal... is counter productive. we need investment in, not divestment from coal and gas and other means to clean them up. as you mention in detail, there is no dent in absolute numbers... so wouldnt it be better if we would improve generation efficiencies and reduce emissions?
A "cold" coal-fueled powerplant can take more than a day to come online. Such a plant is useless for dealing with unpredictable intermittency. A "hot" coal plant with zero net generation continues to consume minimal amounts of fuel, but can respond to intermittency.
why so negative on coal...? there is abundant scientific literature that proves that actually LNG is "worse fro the climate" than coal if you just include methane alone. we need all reliable, affordable way to generate electricity including coal and gas, but the constant pounding on the lowest cost, and most reliable, simplest form of generation, coal... is counter productive. we need investment in, not divestment from coal and gas and other means to clean them up. as you mention in detail, there is no dent in absolute numbers... so wouldnt it be better if we would improve generation efficiencies and reduce emissions?
Amazing turnaround time on this analysis