The race to phase out Europe’s biggest coal-fired power plant
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- As we approach COP26, the news gets bleaker; greenhouse gas emissions hit a record high last year according to a UN report.
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The rise underlines how crucial controlling coal will be at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next week, and today the prime minister himself said he is worried at not getting the commitments needed.
While Europe has led the way before, in countries such as Poland, coal still dominates. There it accounts for nearly three-quarters of all power.
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This aged nicely
You can't shut down the fossil fuel plants until you have a substitute source of electricity. That's the simple reality of the world we live in.
Build nuclear.
Whats wrong? you hate nuclear because you are emotionally scared of non existent safety issues ?
Stop being a hypocrite. There are alternatives. If you dont pick them because of your irrational delusion you are beyond help.
What part of my comment made you think I was against nuclear energy?
@@jimfarmer7811 Even if you are a pro nuclear rational person the fearmongering and campaigning done by the dumb opposition have done their damage.
@@vorpalinferno9711 That was kinda my point.
Some coal plants are getting more efficient and cleaner with lower emissions . There are smart grids also that can combine many alternative energy resources more efficiently ...( hybrid systems like solar , wind , geothermal hydroelectric or biofuels combined together ...)
Coal or nuclear, they're your options at the moment folks, simple, end of.
September 1, 2014
Can bioenergy replace coal?
Europe wants 27 percent of its energy to come from renewable sources by 2030. Bioenergy has the potential to help the continent reach that goal, but it requires an industry comeback.
Source: McKinsey & Company
Renewable💚
@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 renewable are unreliable and not green at all
Nuclear is the answer..
More nuclear
As a polish guy I am proud of this power station.
why
Proud to cause Global Warming.
2021 royal dutch shell moved to UK due to carbon emission concerns
2022 Europe burning coal.
Currently, solar and wind don't make enough power even when supported by coal and nuclear. This is in 2021 when 96% of cars on the roads are still using petrol and diesel. Now, imagine the shortfall of electricity if 100% of cars on the road were electric and in need of daily charging... This has not been though through and no one is pointing it out.
screw "enough", also as important is that they dont deliver it when needed. that's a true bottleneck of such energy sources.
and i wont even go into disposal issues...
You do get the fact that electric vehicles can serve as an energy storage and thus make renewables more efficient.
@@rajashashankgutta4334 You can't store what you don't have. You do get that fact right?
@@rajashashankgutta4334 Yes, and certainly doable for rich western countries. But it will take time. Atleast 2030.
@@jamessmith84240 yes and renewable s are intermittent sources of power
As we all know, Johnson will say anything that suits the moment. Even if it means lying to children.
Well this story took an interesting turn.
How?
@@drtiger1834
"Running out of options, Germany and several of its European neighbours are turning back to coal power plants"
"Coal burning quality standards temporarily suspended in Poland"
"Poles told to gather firewood amid soaring energy prices"
Like that.
When the rest of Europe run out of Gas, but Poland can still keep the lights on - they’re visionaries.
F the green peace 🤣
We should never ever want to shut down these beautiful coal plants! They are so beautiful, i wish i could look at them everyday in real life. They symbolize freedom to me.
but they're harmful to environment
I sometimes drive home from work past a big coal station in England 'Fiddlers Ferry'. It was shut down about 2 years ago. It's such a, shame to see it idle, doing nothing given the predicament we now find ourselves in.
Pay them 5 nuclears and then maybe, until that KEEP ON POLAND
We shouldn't close any of our coal power plants until Germany closes all of theirs.
Guess they are really regretting that decision right now.
Nope. I've talked to a Romanian acquaintance of mine and he said no.
got no coal from ussr now so whats mr green peace going to say now
Would love a follow up
Coal is classified as a nonrenewable energy source because it takes millions of years to form. Coal contains the energy stored by plants that lived hundreds of millions of years ago in swampy forests. 3:00
Environmental impacts associated with using coal as an energy source are particulate emission, ground level ozone, smog and acid rain. Coal and fuel oil combustion emit fly ash particles into the atmosphere, which contribute to air pollution problems.
Sources: EIA; WWF
City skylines players: "You have seen nothing..." *Proceeds to place 100 coal and oil factory's*
As machinery and automation go on more power will be need. People eat food and work to produce. Machines need electricity and don't pay taxes.
No
Lot of steam there - do they know that CO2 is invisible?
Exactly!!!!!
Yep.
Many of these eco-video's rave about the 'pollution' being thrown out by these chimneys, even when most of them are just cooling towers wafting away water vapour.
Even with the flue chimneys, the 'pollution' is almost totally waste steam from the wet scrubbers, which clean the particles out of the flue gas and neutralise any corrosive nasties, which is why it isn't filthy black smoke. Of course, they don't want people to know that inconvenient truth, so it's all branded as dirty nasty pollution to suit their narrative.
Nice 👌
Don't be stupid like the UK and do Net Zero at 1,000 KPH.
Maybe but it certainly can’t give up oil
Coal is a lot harder to give up than oil. Oil is almost exclusively used for cars. All newly sold cars will be electric by 2030.
Coal plants are getting more efficient and renewables can expand as well to be environmentally friendly...
You may want to do a vlog on China where coal is king, producing consumer goods for the greedy western World.
Yea OK.... Meanwhile in China & India, they're building 300 of them🙄
Look at the emissions per capita. Also you should compare the whole of EU to India for size and population.
@@N0Xa880iUL What is the point of comparing emissions per capita? EU population is less than 500 million, while China + India is 2.7 million. It means that no matter what sacrifice we make, it won't have any effects on the global climate because most of the world doesn't care. It's simply a waste of money.
@@captainmarcin6105 It's called leading by example
Uuuhhh it's not that complicated to boil water these days.they have these huge microwaves now where you could just add a turbine dedicated to making power to run the microwave that boils the water to make the power that runs the microwave that boils the water that makes the power to run the microwave that boils the water... that runs all the turbines that makes the power to run the city and the microwave
Seems to me that with proper filtration systems coal can still be a fairly decent source of energy, without causing massive damage to the environment. Sun and wind power are basically non-factors, especially considering the resources invested into those energy sources and the difficulty of disposing of wind turbines, especially the rotors. Nuclear power might do the trick, but there have been very little innovations in that area for the last couple of decades. CO2 is a non-issue, given that most of the CO2 is produced by the ocean and volcanoes and CO2 emissions tends to follow a rise in temperature and not the other way around (i.e. it is caused by our sun - including its activity and solar winds, rather than by humans producing CO2 and trapping the heat)
Coal plants DO have extensive filtration systems, to the point that most pollution is mitigated before it leaves the chimney. but you can bet that wont stop the ideologues.
@@bluemoondiadochi what about climate change?
@@rajashashankgutta4334 without reliable energy, this topic will be about as important as it is currently in Sri Lanka.
Yeah carbon sequestration at source is big.
Renewable sources if planned properly are reliable
How about we don’t.
Will closing this plant real make any difference as long as the US and China continue burning hydrocarbons? To phase out hydrocarbons needs massive ramping up of the roll out of solar and wind power and removal of disincentives put in place by energy companies (who do not want to see renewables other than their own on the market) to consumers to install solar panels.
yes next stupid question
solar panels don't work at night their's a surprise
battery's don't store electricity
they produce it
if anyone can store electricity I will give them the Nobel peace prize
Solar and wind will never supplant hydrocarbons - get real
Explain how a country will no baseload power plants survive with more and junk electric vehicles showing up!
Existential threat 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
BS
they wont shut it off. :)
NO CHANCE
Ta kopalnia i elektrownia w Bełchatowie to nasza narodowa duma i Europa to może nas jedynie w dupe pocałować
How about they follow North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee’s model which is replacing all of the existing coal plants with combined cycle natural gas ones and even some nuclear. This method has worked very well. Coal is no longer the majority in any of these states, it’s natural gas in Georgia, nuclear in Tennessee, and the amount produced from natural gas and nuclear in North Carolina is almost equivalent to each. North Carolina and Tennessee are on track to phase out coal entirely by 2035(and NC expects to replace their largest coal plant with a nuclear plant at that time) and it might happen a lot sooner in Georgia as there are only 2 operational coal plants left and both are 40-50 years old now
Seems like things changed in few days. Delete this video before coal sees it and gets angry.
wake up from your dream
BUILD NUCLEAR FFS!!!
The war on energy continues, regardless of the consequences.
Solar panels and storage batteries are getting more efficient and more affordable to buy side by side with other renewable energy technologies ...
Technology is developing and advancing , so in the medium term and the long term, things could change a lot possibly ...
Renewables could diversify sources of energy , help reduce CO2 emissions and reduce oil bills sooner or later giving some countries more economic and political power ...
these do not hold a candle to the cheap reliable clean coal alternatives
Meanwhile, China just opened a new one
If they'd spent as much money refining coal as they do on oil then coal could be the cleanest energy of the two !!
Yo what tf
so destroy the world still. just buy yourself one more generation fossil fuel technology is obsolete get over it
@@steveknott4255
Sounds about right. Of course we should all bear in mind that thousands of tons of fossil fuels are needed to produce the plastics and polymers needed to make the so called, 'renewable' energy systems not to mention the huge holes that needs to be dug into the earth along with the habitat clearances for the raw materials to make wind generators and tide generators and nuclear power plants. The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on........
If we banned anyone from getting a mobile phone until they were 22 years old, it would save over 50 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year worldwide. Zoomers are killing the planet.
@@AdmiralBonetoPick Well if they used renewable energy for the electricity source then that will be nearly zero lolol
Smart grids with hybrid systems can be miraculous also to be an alternative energy resource.
Published: November 4, 2021
COP26: here’s what it would take to end coal power worldwide
More than 40 countries have signed an agreement at COP26, the latest UN climate change summit in Glasgow, to phase out coal in electricity generation. The signatories include some of the world’s biggest coal burners: Canada, Poland, Vietnam, South Korea, Ukraine and Indonesia. The larger of these economies pledge to cease using coal in their power sectors in the 2030s, while the smaller ones promise the same during the following decade. 0:53
Source: The Conversation
supplementary power ONLY
Meanwhile will the world sits on it hands and have talkfests, the planet continues to warm every second of every day and night☹
What is your solution exactly?
@@hypotheticlz - Adaption, build resilience and less consumption of non essential items, reduce C02, No2, methane, etc emissions and lead a sustainable environmentally friendly life style.
In the current I was
already found of Thermodynamic rules for green power plant is input = output +
output + output + output: Example 40 KW/
Input side it can become 1.5 MW/ Output side ( Is not input = output-loss ) May I join with
you?
What?
Ok, I will use this video to make a complain. I just watched a video about White privilege and all that nonsense. But the comments in that video were turned off. What are you afraid of Channel 4? Are you going to upset your audience from now on? Woke? Hypocrites?
Gosh, how far this is going to carry on? I mean, you can't educate people upsetting people! That wasn't the way my parents educated me. So a minority of frustrated people now have the right to upset the majority just because a 10% of the population is racist? This will not end up well and in two decades times, things will comeback to sense. Meanwhile I am off from Channel 4! Good luck!
Oh and I am mixed race if that counts!
So much for democracy eh. Thought it was majority first. Hmmmmm.
Mixed race and defending white privilege. One word for you- validation.
why not every houses/buildings start to manage their power needs by installing solar cell, wind catcher or use water turbine (its not cheap, but good future investment) and feel enough with it!. start to live by yourserlf bro, be smart people. im trying now, its not late at all.. small change - imagine everyone in every countries all the world do that..once again. its not late at all.. sory bad english
How is trusting the Russians working out for them???
What Russians?
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I've been always thinking about what is the real influence of green energy on hole world, not only on the area where the reach white man lives. I mean total ecological cost of producing and maintenance of green power plants. I've never seen it prooved that it's better to cut a tree to make a paper bag than even to waste a plastic one.
Read a book about science you pillock, plastic is made from oil
@@Patchesmcgee123 I know, Your Enlightened Exellency 😂 as each children knows. Well, maybe you know sources which shows that the summary effect is worse for a plastic bag.
@@Patchesmcgee123 Are you a child? Naming ppl is childish.
@@Patchesmcgee123 On the other hand I could be like these who suppose that the earth is flat. I don't know. We live in info chaos.
To little, to late.
Go to your safe space, it's going to be ok.
@@gerrygeko9712When your lights go out, will it still be ok?
@@gerrygeko9712 safe space... I live in a forest I own, 2 hours drive from nearest large town by dirt road if the roads open , in a house i made from 2 shipping containers, off grid, catching rainwater... veg and herb garden, chooks and 2 border collie dogs... and never bought into the mass deceptions of modern society.
It used to be deceptions like " you are what you own" and "The west (Western democracy) is the best" etc, now it's "everyone's opinions are valid", "live your truth" and "words are weapons" and other utter garbage spouted by people today.
I'm about as safe as anyone can be you moon unit.
I don't want to die in a nuclear explosion.
Nuclear power plants *can't* blow up like nuclear weapons do.
@Will Swift CO2 IS the problem