{"id":532,"date":"2016-10-20T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?p=226"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:22:11","slug":"coal-is-not-a-4-letter-word-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/coal-is-not-a-4-letter-word-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Is Not A 4-Letter Word In India (It\u2019s \u0915\u094b\u092f\u0932\u093e)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coal is not a four-letter expletive in India. It\u2019s become an act of survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there was ever a prime example of the need for U.S.-led carbon-capture technologies, it\u2019s India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3><span class=\"md-bold\" style=\"color: #9d1c20;\">1.2 billion people lack access to electricity today.<br>Roughly 240 million people in India don\u2019t have electricity.<\/span><\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clearpath-lightbox-img aligncenter wp-image-4484 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2018\/01\/62176d12d10a21959e8a60254171f34b-no-lights1-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"398\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/398;\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 1.2 billion people who lack access to electricity today, roughly 240 MILLION are in India. That\u2019s about America\u2019s entire adult population. On top of that, energy demand there is going to quadruple as they plug-in to the 21st century, requiring a rapid build-out of new electricity sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"float-left\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3><span class=\"md-bold\" style=\"color: #9d1c20;\">Coal Consumption in China,<br>the United States and India<br>1990-2040[source id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/span><\/h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clearpath-lightbox-img alignleft wp-image-4484 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2018\/01\/bd8cff0d89168655c1974b0f80a3a4ac-coal-consumption-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/329;\">\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>And build they will. India is going to more than double their domestic coal production in the next five years, according to the country\u2019s power minister.&nbsp;Why aren\u2019t they filling their voracious energy appetite with solar?&nbsp; Well, solar is a significant part of their strategy &#8211;but they need energy when the sun doesn\u2019t shine. India doesn\u2019t have much natural gas, but it is sitting on the fifth largest coal reserve in the world.&nbsp;Pound for pound, and electron for electron, coal is roughly 15%&nbsp;cheaper than solar. That is not counting the cost of having power on demand to fill in when the sun isn\u2019t shining, or the increased cost of transmission lines for solar that is more spread out. So it\u2019s no wonder why India is expected to build nearly half of all new coal plants worldwide in the next 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It couldn\u2019t be any clearer: You can\u2019t just ignore coal \u2013 or the market opportunity for America to lead the world in developing and exporting carbon-capturing technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t forget about the \u201cglobal\u201d in \u201cglobal warming\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asia in particular needs the type of coal technology innovation America can provide. Conservatives are absolutely right to point out the futility of America unilaterally reducing carbon pollution and pretending as if the rest of the world can simply follow. The world needs clean and affordable technology. But imagining a world powered solely or even predominately by solar and wind is exactly that: imagination. President Obama\u2019s former Energy Secretary Steven Chu puts it colorfully:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3><span class=\"md-bold\" style=\"color: #9d1c20;\">Without carbon capture we\u2019re going into\u2014the technical physics word is deep doo-doo<br>&#8211; Steven Chu<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside style=\"float:right\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clearpath-lightbox-img alignright size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2018\/01\/3ab176ff0bbaa687cd3c4c091f428330-carbon-vaccuum2-01.jpg\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/487;width:500px;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\">\n\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>Coal matters. Cleaner coal matters. Those who claim to care about carbon emissions can\u2019t ignore energy demand in Asia and the staying power of coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why American technological innovation from our coal industry is crucial. Those coal plants in India won\u2019t just disappear after they\u2019ve been built and paid for. But they can be made cleaner with U.S.-led innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Innovation is America\u2019s secret sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1990s, America perfected power plant \u201cscrubbers\u201d to capture sulfur pollution from coal and stop acid rain. That technology spread across the world. Today, coal companies, leading engineers and such global giants as ExxonMobil and Shell are making coal plants do the same for carbon pollution with carbon-capture technology. It\u2019s still in the early stages, with significant challenges as well as tantalizing potential. One Canadian project called Boundary Dam, a joint venture between Shell and a Canadian utility, is already operational and can capture 90% of its carbon emissions. The concept works and other carbon-capturing technologies are under development and being built:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2><span class=\"md-bold\" style=\"color: #9d1c20;\">Promising Technology<\/span><\/h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"clearpath-lightbox-img aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2018\/01\/c50e06ded728fc2c48da4112e9ec1269-promising-technology-01.jpg\" alt=\"promising-technology\" width=\"626\" height=\"1024\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 626px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 626\/1024;\">\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>These innovative projects are the sort of technology that could boom along with Asian coal, boosting America\u2019s economy, as long as we can win the technological race with Canada and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doomsday environmentalists who chant \u201cbeyond fossil fuels\u201d have not only missed reality, they\u2019ve ignored a big potential win-win. By pioneering carbon-capture technology, America could make a profit-selling technology for the coal boom in Asia and reduce emissions by addressing the global nature of global warming. Would such an innovative approach be effective? Would it boost our economy and reduce global emissions? Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong>View more of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/\">Our Take<\/a>&nbsp;and let us&nbsp;know what you think at <a href=\"mailto:jaylistens@saperemarketing.com\">jaylistens@saperemarketing.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal is not a four-letter expletive in India. It\u2019s become an act of survival. If there was ever a prime example of the need for U.S.-led carbon-capture technologies, it\u2019s India. Of the 1.2 billion people who lack access to electricity today, roughly 240 MILLION are in India. 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