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At present rates we add 8.51 billion tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere from the world’s 50,000 coal fired power stations; by 2020 this is projected to rise to 12.77 billion tonnes.
The European Union plans to construct 50 new coal-fired power plants by 2013. The International Energy Agency estimates that world energy demands will soar by 60% from current levels by 2030, with 85% of that being from the burning of fossil fuels. It reports that Germany is planning 20 new plants in the coming decades while China is expected to install a further 800 gigawatts of new electrical power capacity by 2015, of which, 90% will be from coal. The IEA highlights that 800 gigawatts is equivalent to all the power capacity installed throughout the European Union member countries since 1945.So let’s revisit Sir Nicholas’s sound commercial economic advice, to our political masters. ‘It is crucial, and we need about 30 CCS demonstration projects, on commercial scale, carried out in developed and developing countries over the next 10 years.”
Will this helpful advice ’30 CCS demonstration project over the next 10 years’ fix it? Or has Elvis already left the building?Let us hope our leaders start to listen to logic, not those who are obvious visitors from some other planet and didn’t do basic maths in school!
Bob Williamson
Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
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