re: #665 unrealizedviewpoint

The fact is and you know it, or should anyway, we will never be able to tell China to halt burning of fossil fuels. China is opening one new coal burning (not clean coal) plant daily.

Yes, and it is in our best interest to slow that growth and sell them wind generators, thin film solar panels, and 4G nuclear power plants. We are going to need coal for the foreseeable future for plastics and fertilizer production. Gotta have those long-chain hydrocarbons. They can be synthesized from coal.

And there will always be coal burning somewhere on the planet. It’s too cheap for the poorest countries not to utilize. But poor countries don’t burn that much of it, and relatively rich countries need to be weaned off that teat.