G7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 years - eviltoast
  • Auzy@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    The only problem will be the right wingers who complain.

    Here in Australia, many trainee pilots actually fly near a coal power plant as part of their first nav training. You can smell it LONG before you’re anywhere near it. I seriously don’t think people realise just how bad Coal is, and how far the pollution stretches for (if they did, they’d immediately change their mind and want to dump it)

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      6 months ago

      I used to live close to a coal power plant in Germany and there were never any smells, so now I wonder don’t they use filters in Australia?

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        6 months ago

        You don’t notice them on the ground. But, up in the air in a light aircraft, you can follow the smell long before you can see the power plant