Pakistan's First Coal Power Project Starts Functioning
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achi baat hai
hopefully ab infrastructure bhi thora imporve karlein.
baarish ki do boondein giri nhi to bijli band.
har doosrey teesrey din bijli band for hours for some repair work going on and that too unannounced.
dimagh ghoom jaata hai bandey ka.
Cities mei shayed ye masla na ho but my family is located like an hour drive from Islamabad close to the Kahua area and it can get messy at times...
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This is from GE's own articles.
Buried 1,000 feet below the parched Thar Desert in Pakistan lies more fuel energy than all the known oil in Iran and Saudi Arabia combined. Just a small fraction of this 175-billion-ton lignite coal reserve is plentiful enough to supply one-fifth of Pakistan’s current energy levels for 50 years.
https://www.ge.com/reports/answering-pakistans-burning-question-ignite-lignite/
There is an energy crisis in Pakistan, but the solution is literally underfoot: A local supply of approximately 180 billion tons of lignite—a type of soft coal. For a country looking to become energy self-sufficient, Pakistan’s lignite reserves are practically a gold mine.
https://www.ge.com/power/case-studies/secure-power-for-pakistan
Pakistan has about 180 billion tons of lignite reserves and GE’s technology can help the country use the indigenous resource instead of importing more expensive fuels to increase energy independence and save foreign exchange reserves.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/390947-ge-clinches-60mln-coal-power-plant-deal
Coal and natural gas should certainly be more than 60% of China's electricity by 2040. This chart omits natural gas.
That's westerners trying to keep the developing countries down. American burned coal like there's no tomorrow when they were dominating the world. Now their dominance is being threatened so they pull the coal is dirty stunt. Not gonna work.
Solar panels don't follow the path of the Sun across the sky during the day like sunflowers do. They only produce a small fraction of their installed values. Like 10%. So efficiency of solar panels is like 15% multiplied by 10%, which is not worth the money.
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I still worry about the effect of the mounting circular debt plaguing the power sector. Adding additional generating capacity is comparatively the easy part.
Read the posts; this is the cleanest coal power stations you will find.
US and Chinese coal stations are far worse, and far more numerous.
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The US only has 1 such clean coal plant, in Arkansas commissioned in 2012. China has hundreds of such clean coal plants.
China builds world's largest clean coal power generation system
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/12/WS5c62d164a3106c65c34e8f48.html
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The main concern is to make sure that new facilities can recover their investment costs. Rates can not be artificially lowered below what the actual costs to produce the power. This has been a problem with the oil fired generation. The true costs to generate electricity from oil are many times what the public rate is. The utilities have to bear the cost of the difference. This is unsustainable. Let's not put are new coal plants in the same position, if it costs $.07 kw/h to generate power in Thar, then that's what should be charged. We need to ignore the socialist calls to set the price lower then the extraction costs. That would be a disaster. Encourage efficiency and good management to lower costs. We don't need another PIA or Karachi steel mill.
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In addition to the above, getting paid on time for the power pumped into the grid is a huge issue too.
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Fantastic news! Keep building these coal powered plants and ignore the environmentalists. It's a matter of survival and a few of these plants are not going to kill our children.
Our busted engined cars, vans and buses pollute way way more .. environmentalists should focus on those first and legislation on emission control is required first and foremost. These plants are clean and not a concern.
Our busted engined cars, vans and buses pollute way way more .. environmentalists should focus on those first and legislation on emission control is required first and foremost. These plants are clean and not a concern.
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Coal plant advantages include high power output, low space usage, reliable power even at night, low cost of construction and lost fuel cost, but mainly disadvantage is easy target for enemy missiles in time of war.
Solar plant advantages include large dispersal of panels over a large area, making them difficult to knock out by enemy missiles in time of war, only cluster munitions are effective against solar plants, but disadvantages include low power output, large space usage, expensive to service and expensive to dispose after shelf lives.
Lignite is past plant life compressed. It's all natural stuff. It's cleaner than burning firewood with modern boiler technology and filtration.
Solar plant advantages include large dispersal of panels over a large area, making them difficult to knock out by enemy missiles in time of war, only cluster munitions are effective against solar plants, but disadvantages include low power output, large space usage, expensive to service and expensive to dispose after shelf lives.
Lignite is past plant life compressed. It's all natural stuff. It's cleaner than burning firewood with modern boiler technology and filtration.
Can you quit being stupid ? GE does not perform the geological surveys of estimating coal reserves. They are not in the business.
If there was 180 billion metric tons I would be extracting 200-300 million tons per year not the measly 4 million tons. Pakistan won't have a energy crisis
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Environmentalists should focus on plastic garbage pollution. How many of them have ever picked up a single piece of garbage lying around? I have. Action speaks louder than words. All they care about is climate, nothing else. Attention whores.
They get data from geological surveys. They won't invest if there is no profit return.
It is not GE's core area of expertise. Do not quote a GE document on coal reserves
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Believe what you want. You are not authority. You have no credibility. Go diss Pakistan somewhere else you White ghost.
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Just imagine how green Thar region must have been before the Great Flood buried it all.
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