2021-06-30
The Guardian reports that 80% of new coal power generation investment will take place in five Asian countries.
Which begs the question: was it really wise of the UK Europe and the USA to outsource our heavy industries to the East during the last century?
Has it not led overall to more global pollution and CO2 generation rather than less?
Is it not now high time to begin repatriating our heavy industries back to the UK so that we can use the abundant supplies of green energy that we have been promised to create our steel, aluminium etc rather than importing it from high-polluting Asia?
Especially as (again according to the Guardian) renewable generation is now cheaper than coal-fired?
"The report predicts the cost of renewable energy will continue to fall in the coming years. Over the next two years three-quarters of all new solar power projects will be cheaper than new coal power plants, and onshore wind costs will be a quarter lower than the cheapest new coal-fired option"
Or is our UK energy policy committed to the most expensive nuclear and (unreliable expensive) off-shore wind power generation that this Guardian article somehow didn't take into account?
And if we don't actually have quite enough cheap reliable green energy, would not burning cheap reliable gas be far less polluting and still reduce global CO2 emissions overall?
Would that not be an all-round win for global Britain?
