Environmental Disaster
The US is facing an environmental disaster because we have too much coal. Although most of our power plants run on coal, burning it releases carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, so this will have to stop soon. The question is: what else can we use?
LiveScience.com reports that, Ernest Moniz, who is one of the world’s experts on global warming, says the US has to stop building coal-fired power plants and should bulldoze older generators that don’t capture and bury greenhouse gases. But 159 coal-fired power plants are scheduled to be built in the next decade, which will generate power for 96 million homes.
New Scientist quotes Moniz as saying that we have mountains of cheap coal that is “going to be used.”
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