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China orders huge boost in coal output to avert severe power crunch
9 Oct, 2021 06:09
Beijing has called for an immediate expansion of coal production in Inner Mongolia by nearly 100 million tons, Reuters reports. This comes amid a global energy crunch and coal shortages in the country.
The proposed increase would reportedly make up nearly 3% of China’s total thermal coal consumption. The 72 mines listed by Inner Mongolia’s energy bureau previously had an authorized annual capacity of 178.45 million tons.
The Inner Mongolia regional energy department has urgently instructed the cities of Wuhai, Ordos and Hulunbuir, as well as Xilingol League, or prefecture, to notify the 72 mines that they should immediately begin operating at the stipulated higher capacities.
“The [government’s] coal task force shall urge miners to raise output with no compromise, while the power task team shall have the generating firms guarantee meeting the winter electricity and heating demand,” the state-run Inner Mongolia Daily reports.
According to an unnamed Beijing-based trader, “This demonstrates the government is serious about raising local coal production to ease the shortage.” He estimated the production boost may take up to two to three months to materialize.
“It will help alleviate the coal shortage but cannot eliminate the issue,” Lara Dong, senior director with IHS Markit, told Reuters. “The government will still need to apply power rationing to ensure the balancing of the coal and power markets over the winter.”
Coal prices have skyrocketed lately along with gas prices as the world struggles to meet rising demands amid the post-pandemic recovery. China is spending a lot on heavy industry, real estate and infrastructure construction to spur economic growth and recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
Chinese authorities have recently been closing inefficient or overcapacity coal mines in an effort to improve energy efficiency. However, the country is still the world’s biggest coal consumer, with more than 50% of its energy production relying on coal.
Electric Garbage - City of Paris Electric Vehicles
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This is a garbage dump near Paris, France with hundreds of electrically powered cars.
Mind you, these are only cars used by the city of Paris and not personal vehicles.
They all have the same problem,.... the battery storage cells have gone and need to be replaced.
Why don't you just replace them?
Two reasons.. n
Firstly, the batteries cost almost double what the car costs new, and secondly, no landfill or waste processor will allow the batteries to be disposed of there.
So these green electric fairy tale cars are all on set-aside grounds while their batteries drain toxic substances to the ground.
Still think we should turn green????
Moscow to become first major city on planet with entirely electric
transport as Russia's capital phases out diesel-fueled buses
15 Oct, 2021 14:20
Moscow is set to become the world’s first major city to have its public transport entirely powered by electricity, its mayor revealed on Thursday, explaining that there will be no diesel buses in the Russian capital at all by 2028.
Speaking at the Russian Energy Week conference, Sergey Sobyanin announced that Moscow already has one of the world’s largest fleets of electric buses. By the end of the year, there will be a thousand of them. Furthermore, in six to seven years, there will be so many electric-powered buses that all the diesel vehicles will be retired.
In six or seven years you will need to replace all the batteries in about 1000 busses. What will that cost, and what will you do with all those old batteries?
The mayor also revealed that the pace of expansion of rail transport also exceeds that of all European and American cities.
Earlier this month, Moscow’s Department of Transport announced that the 800th electric bus had hit the streets of the capital. The first vehicle of its type was revealed in September 2018.
In August, Sobyanin boasted that the city’s 800-strong electric bus fleet is far larger than other major European capitals.
“There are 400 electric buses operating in London today, 150 in Paris, 200 in Berlin, and 211 in Amsterdam. Moscow electric buses run on 56 routes. Three years of operation has seen them traveling over 40 million kilometers and transporting more than 100 million passengers,” he said.
In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin also hailed the green progress in Moscow’s public transport, calling it “important” for the ecology of the capital and “not only in order to brag” about the city’s progression.
The capital’s famous underground train system is also powered by electricity. Earlier this week, the metro launched FacePay throughout the entire network, which now means that citizens can use the system without needing to pull out a card.
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