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Arab states building coal plants in the desert.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 8:51 pm
Posted on 7/2/18 at 8:51 pm
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A growing population and underequipped power sector have left Egypt with a continual energy shortage, with summer blackouts and regular shortfalls a fact of life since 2011. As part of its response, Egypt plans to build a major new coal plant at Hamrawein on the Red Sea. The government announced last month that it had received three competing offers from international consortiums including companies from China, Japan, and the United States to build the 6 gigawatt facility.
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While Israel aims to fully expel coal from its energy mix by 2030, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, Turkey and Iran all have plans for new coal capacity.
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What’s feeding all of this demand? Concerns over energy security, but also a broader need to power growth. Dubai, as the Gulf region’s most innovative hub, is reluctant to spend on importing energy from other emirates. Egypt sees a need to manage demand for natural gas; the recently announced deal to import $15 billion-worth of gas from Israel’s Leviathan and Tamar fields is another. Ankara is understandably reluctant to continue depending on Russia’s supply of fully half of Turkey’s natural gas. In each case, coal is seen as driving sustained energy diversification.
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Posted on 7/2/18 at 8:57 pm to cokebottleag
But, but, but,
muh climate change!
muh climate change!
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:00 pm to cokebottleag
As a global commodity... the less coal the U.S. consumes the cheaper it becomes. Low price encourages other countries to use it. China is supposed to triple their consumption between now and 2035. That is a lot of coal being burned in other countries without anything close the environment restrictions on pollution we have in the U.S. At least air pollution in one country doesn't have a way to affect other countries. 
The liberals that attack coal are just causing more of it to be burned in countries that pollute to the extreme. If the U.S. doesn't consume it, it is on the global market even cheaper. There is a reason every time you see a picture of Hong Kong everyone is wearing a mask on the street.
The liberals that attack coal are just causing more of it to be burned in countries that pollute to the extreme. If the U.S. doesn't consume it, it is on the global market even cheaper. There is a reason every time you see a picture of Hong Kong everyone is wearing a mask on the street.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:01 pm to cokebottleag
This is what happens when we won't let them have nuclear power. You would think a place like Egypt would be prime territory for solar panels though.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:07 pm to TrueTiger
Good lord they can’t get natural gas from Libya?
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:08 pm to Tridentds
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As a global commodity... the less coal the U.S. consumes the cheaper it becomes. Low price encourages other countries to use it. China is supposed to triple their consumption between now and 2035. That is a lot of coal being burned in other countries without anything close the environment restrictions on pollution we have in the U.S. At least air pollution in one country doesn't have a way to affect other countries.
The liberals that attack coal are just causing more of it to be burned in countries that pollute to the extreme. If the U.S. doesn't consume it, it is on the global market even cheaper. There is a reason every time you see a picture of Hong Kong everyone is wearing a mask on the street
Muh economics!! Yet another emotionally driven utopian topic debunked by science
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:10 pm to ehidal1
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debunked by science
Ummm. Economics isn’t science. It’s a racist construct made by the white man.
/s
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:19 pm to Brosef Stalin
It would be ideal for solar.
Here is what I do don't get, a 500 megawatt coal plant uses about 6200 gallons per minute at full load. Where the he'll is that water coming from in the desert?
Here is what I do don't get, a 500 megawatt coal plant uses about 6200 gallons per minute at full load. Where the he'll is that water coming from in the desert?
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:21 pm to cokebottleag
Is their coal as clean as our clean coal?
We really do have the cleanest coal.
We really do have the cleanest coal.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:21 pm to TrueTiger
That's horrific! There's so much oil in the Middle East. Burning oil has already turned their lands into illivable furnaces, why would they ever consider COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS?! Do they have some perverse death wish, or what?!
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:21 pm to cokebottleag
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6 gigawatt
That's a shite load of power!
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:23 pm to TrueTiger
I think Egypt has a pretty big river running through it.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:24 pm to TrueTiger
Does it consume that much water, or merely needs a heat sink.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:27 pm to Volvagia
Coal make hot fire, make steam, steam turn turbines, make power.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:30 pm to TrueTiger
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Where the he'll is that water coming from in the desert?
They must be in DaNile!
Member when all the libtards said that coal was just so 19th century and obsolete?
This post was edited on 7/2/18 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:31 pm to Volvagia
Most of it is cooling water lost to evaporation.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:32 pm to cokebottleag
No electricity?
Egypt is in danger of becoming Arkansas.
Egypt is in danger of becoming Arkansas.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:33 pm to cokebottleag
That seems like a super legit totally real not made up source.
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:33 pm to tarzana
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Do they have some perverse death wish, or what?!
Maybe they just want AC?
Posted on 7/2/18 at 9:35 pm to TrueTiger
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