Still more coal power coming online...

I felt reminded of the following tweet again today which I seem to recall having originally popped into my feed alongside some stories on China resuming construction of a fleet of coal powerplants equal to the combined capacity of all those currently existing in the EU:

Seems like a good time to bring this up again: we will never halt AGW with expensive, intrusive solutions that can only be imposed by the will of a cooperative government. We need cheap, attractive ones that people will adopt out of rational self-interest. https://t.co/TlTXNBUnGO https://t.co/8Cy3Xyyt2X

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 23, 2019

Guess what Japan's now also busy building - another 22 coal powerplants over the next 5 years. As I'd noted previously re: Japan, disappearing nuclear often seems to be replaced by fossil fuels. You'll see the same sort of thing with retired nuclear plants predominantly replaced by natural gas in the US