The Mixed Fortunes of a Fuel; Coal in the Rich World  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8817 (Jan. 2013), page 50-51.
Topik: Coal Industry; Business Conditions; Electricity Generation; Environmental Regulations; Coal-fired Power Plants; Energy Resources

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Coal is far from a thing of the past. Coal-fired power stations provide two-fifths of the world's electricity, and there are ever more of them. In the doubling of the world's electricity production over the past decade, two-thirds of the increase came from coal. At these rates, coal will vie with oil as the world's largest source of primary energy within five years. As recently as 2001, it was not much more than half as important as oil. The main factor has been the unslakable thirst for energy in China, which in 2011 overtook America as the world's biggest electricity producer. Other developing economies are just as keen on coal, if not yet on such a grand scale. But if America no longer dominates the business as it once did, what is happening to the industry there is still able to trigger changes far away. And at the moment coal is falling from favour in America. There are two reasons for thinking the shift from coal may be long-lasting. One is that new gas is continuing to come on stream, and getting cheaper to produce. The decline of coal, though, will be protracted.

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