142 YEARS AFTER STARTING WITH COAL, ENGLAND SHUTS DOWN LAST COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT
I’ve been jealous of all the amazing pubs in England since I first ever went into one in the early 1990’s. But now I’ve got something else to be jealous about in the English Isles. It seems they were serious about committing to renewables when it comes to energy production, and have made a leap in that commitment that I just can’t see the United States accomplishing anytime soon. They just shut down their very last coal-fired power station. As in, no more coal (in any industrial sense, anyway) burning in England. And it marks the end of 142 long, polluting years of coal burning there.
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ENGLAND WAS FIRST COUNTRY TO PRODUCE POWER WITH COAL BACK IN 1882, NOW ACHIEVES ANOTHER FIRST
Their last coal-fired power station had been running for 58 years. Which is to say it, all by itself, has a major footprint in global warming and carbon emissions. But making power from coal has a long history in England, seeing as how it was the very first country anywhere that started burning coal to produce power way back in the year 1882. And England is achieving first all over again, as it is now the first major world economy to finally wash its hands of the sooty fossil fuel. And in case you were wondering, yes, this is al about England making a major effort to help reduce its own contribution to climate change, global warming, etc.
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WHICH IS THE NEXT MAJOR WORLD ECONOMY TO TOTALLY END THEIR USE OF COAL?
And coal, let’s not forget, is the most-dirty and most polluting of all the fossil fuels the world uses. So what’s next? Or, rather, who is next? Because coal is still burning all over the world to produce power. America and China, with the latter making much more of a recent commitment to coal-fired power stations, both still burn a lot of coal. I expect who is next will be another member of the European Union. But alternative energy production like wind, solar and water will surely expand in England. And hopefully, the markets in the U.S., China and everywhere else will be paying attention.
