Yea sorry, coal is very dirty and spews radioactive waste all over the place.
Japan has 3 choices: 1. Restart their nuclear power plants 2. Burn coal and other fossil fuels with all of their consequences like radioactive ash. 3. Freeze in the dark and find themselves a third-world nation.
OK eventually Japan can probably build enough wind, solar, and natural gas power plants to replace all of their nuclear reactors but the transition is going to suck and they are going to be very sensitive to any change in the price of LNG.
Yea sorry, coal is very dirty and spews radioactive waste all over the place.
ReplyDeleteJapan has 3 choices:
1. Restart their nuclear power plants
2. Burn coal and other fossil fuels with all of their consequences like radioactive ash.
3. Freeze in the dark and find themselves a third-world nation.
OK eventually Japan can probably build enough wind, solar, and natural gas power plants to replace all of their nuclear reactors but the transition is going to suck and they are going to be very sensitive to any change in the price of LNG.