Clean coal technologies were at least 25 percent more efficient than traditional coal fired power plants.

But one day of coal adds up to one hell of a lot of carbon dioxide in a normal one gigawatt coal fired plant.

Put differently, if the world continues to build coal fired power plants at the current rate, those plants will still be around in 2050, regardless of what other technologies become viable in the meantime. Solar power cannot stop those coal fired plants from being built today.

Much of the future increases in coal fired electricity generation will come from strategically important developing countries like China and India. In 2006 alone, China added about 93,000 megawatts of coal fired electricity generating capacity, and this trend is expected to continue as the country tries to meet its huge energy needs.

From 1996 to 2000, China also closed down many coal fired power plants that were producing less than 50 MW of power.

It is little wonder, then, that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who two years ago described the expansion of coal fired power plants as his worst nightmare, now calls coal a great natural resource.

Denmark, which houses some of the most efficient coal fired power plants in the world, equally relies on coal for half of its electricity production. The same is true for Germany, which is home to some of the most efficient pulverized coal combustion units in Europe.

Some Parties are proposing the introduction of efficient fuel for boilers in industry, efficient coal fired boilers, efficient electrical motors, and efficient lighting in industrial buildings.

Have a moratorium we shouldn't have any new coal fired generating plants that aren't able to capture and store CO2, which means we have to quickly build these renewable sources.

Moreover, most economic models do not account for the externalities related to coal and carbon pollution. For example, a recent report by Trucost estimates that coal fired power generation worldwide may be responsible for around 1 trillion of damage due to climate change and air pollution.

But this approach would still consume too much of the CO2 budget. Even the most modern and advanced conventional coal fired power plants emit over 15 times more CO2 per unit of electricity than renewable energy systems, and more than twice the amount of efficient gas fired power stations.

Five weeks ago, a group of activists from the business community gathered together to stop a Texas utility from building nine coal fired electrical plants that would have contributed to destroying the environment.

Coal mining enterprises and coal trading enterprises may not adulterate coal and sell inferior coal as quality coal.

President Barack Obama s administration is trying to stop the construction of new coal fired power plants, unless they are equipped with CCS technology. China, for its part, has realized that its heavy dependence on coal is causing such devastating pollution and smog that it is leading to massive loss of life, with life expectancy down as much as five years in regions with heavy coal consumption.

The large coal fired power station we're building at King's North, and of course the exciting news that only today, only this week, Britain's only manufacturer of wind turbines has been forced to close.

Obama also mentioned that he had raised fuel economy standards for cars in the US, and had invested in renewable energy sources, like solar and wind power. But, when Romney talked about increasing coal production, Obama neglected to point out that carbon dioxide from coal fired electricity generation is already a major contributor to climate change that we still lack the technology to produce clean coal and that increasing the use of coal will impose huge burdens on people worldwide.

This is why the OECD Secretary General has suggested that it is time for a moratorium on the construction of conventional coal fired power plants. Governments have far more cost effective electricity generation technologies at their disposal.

Customers and coal trading enterprises in coal marketing areas shall have the right to buy coal directly from coal mining enterprises.

These efforts dwarf expected US initiatives. Nevertheless, in the near future, China also will build 500,000 MW of coal fired power plants (more than the entire existing US stock), at great risk to the global atmosphere and environment.

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Article 35 The State shall encourage and support coal mining enterprises and other enterprises to produce both coal and electricity, coking coal, coal chemicals and building materials made of coal and engage in deep and fine processing of coal.

According to this plan, the authority would continue to guide the alleviation of functions unrelated to its status as national capital, and promoted the works of clean energy substitutions and pollutants discharge reductions. 4923 coal fired boilers were eliminated in total.

And, as a recent study shows, because China s coal fired power plants are so dirty, electric cars make the local air worse. In Shanghai, air pollution from an additional million gasoline powered cars would kill an estimated nine people each year.

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CHAPTER III PRODUCTION OF COAL AND SAFETY OF COAL MINES

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The State shall encourage coal mining enterprises to develop coal washing and processing as well as comprehensive exploitation and utilization of coalbed methane, gangue, coal slime, stone coal and peat.

Coal mine construction projects shall conform with the plans for coal production and development and the policies for the coal industry.

Consider Pakistan and South Africa, where a dearth of generating capacity means recurrent blackouts that wreak havoc on businesses and cost jobs. Yet the funding of new coal fired power plants in both countries has been widely opposed by well meaning Westerners and governments.

Article 46 Coal mining enterprises which have legally obtained coal production licenses shall have the right to sell the coal they themselves produce.

CHAPTER II PLANS FOR COAL PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF COAL MINES

Whereas a coal burning plant, a normal one gigawatt coal plant, burns 80 rail cars of coal a day, each car having 100 tons.

As the South African finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, explained, to sustain the growth rates we need to create jobs, we have no choice but to build new generating capacity relying on what, for now, remains our most abundant and affordable energy source coal. The US government even acknowledged that, without a coal fired power plant, South Africa s economic recovery will suffer, adversely impacting electrification, job creation, and social indicators.