CO2 Coal FAQ Waste 
Plug In India
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Shipping is responsible for an estimated 100 crore tonnes of CO2 per year, and 10% of that is shipping oil. 70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. of electricity comes from sources that emit no CO2. In India 39.1% In Europe it is even better at 56%.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 20, 2009
That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it?
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? — Kaare Nilsen 2. In the U.S.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem.
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