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\"smog-3125312_1920\"<\/a>UK insurer Aviva<\/a> has criticised this week for pouring money into Polish coal this week and undermining the fight against climate change.\u00a0 We tend to think of King coal as been if not dead at least on its way out but whilst it may be down, its not quite out.\u00a0 France has announced its closing all its coal fired power stations (it cannot have many) and the UK is on its way to closing the lot (with no effects on the increasingly renewable dominated grid yet), but some countries still use a lot of coal.\u00a0 These countries include China (also phasing out coal), India (not doing so), Germany (a surprise) and Poland.\u00a0 Polish coal is used not just for generating power and making steel but also for heating houses.\u00a0 So you have a mix of industrial pollution, pollution from coal fired power station, from cars and from houses.\u00a0 The pollution has got so bad drones are being used in at least one city to search for culprits.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the country is planning to build another 10GW of new capacity.\u00a0 It was pointed out by a defender of this that new kit uses a lot less of the black stuff than of old.\u00a0 It used to take 4Kg to generate 1Kw now it takes 700g.\u00a0 Even so Poland is going to have to stop burning coal not just for its own sake but also that of its neighbours.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK insurer Aviva has criticised this week for pouring money into Polish coal this week and undermining the fight against climate change.\u00a0 We tend to think of King coal as been if not dead at least on its way out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[269,275,61],"class_list":["post-7924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-renewable-energy"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - Polish coal - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7924\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7924\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7924\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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