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[still learning]

Japanese companies are still building coal-fired electric powerplants, especially for export, sometimes using funds supposedly to be used for climate change abatement. In Indonesia, for instance.  See http://news.yahoo.co...in5UKl4AOUcPxQt.   Apparently some friction with the Obama administration on the issue.  See http://www.reuters.c...N0RW4AQ20141023   Domestically, Japan does have a need to replace nuclear plants.  See http://www.reuters.c...E99F02A20131016

[still learning]

They're still at it.   India and Bangladesh added to Indonesia. Using Japanese climate mitigation funds to finance new coal-fired powerplants.  Conventional, no mention of CCS.  While the claim (almost certainly true) is that the new powerplants will be more efficient than old ones, producing less CO2 per kilowatt-hour of electricity than old plants, there's no claim that old plants will be retired.  No claim of actual reduced CO2.   See http://america.aljaz...al-climate.html    and    http://news.yahoo.co...-111856742.html

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Insanity.
Thanks for the post (even though it's depressing to know it.)

[eds]

The number of cancelled coal projects across the world,
. . . has outstripped those completed,
. . . at a rate of "2 to 1," since 2010.

03-27-2015 Source:  More coal plants are being cancelled than built

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