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by melling 2309 days ago
“ 4. Efficient coal plants: raise the efficiency of coal power plants to 60%. In 2004, when they wrote their paper, “coal plants, operating on average at 32% efficiency, produced about one fourth of all carbon emissions”

Coal is 25% of carbon emissions. We could have reduced this 2 decades ago. Instead we’re quibbling over 2.5% of emissions.