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Originally Posted by Renato1
The Japs revealed their smarts when they signed the Kyoto treaty. No problem reducing to 1990 levels, they said, we're going to build 27 new nuclear reactors. No complaints from Greens then.
And now that they've closed their reactors and going back to coal, they've put a new CO2 target out, which misses their Kyoto target by miles.
No complaints from Greens - because the Japs have a target, they are doing something about Global Warming!
Gotta love both of them.
Cheers,
Renato
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You're a fair bit wide of the mark there, Renato.
Firstly, Japan isn't going back to coal. The vast majority of the the shortfall from a lack of nuclear power capacity has been taken up by petroleum (oil), liquified natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) - from 36.8% to 60.8%. Meanwhile coal consumption increased only by a small amount, from 25.0% to 27.6%.
Secondly, the nuclear shutdown is probably not permanent. Two reactors have already been approved for re-start by the Japan Nuclear Regulatory Authority, with the re-starts expected before November 2014. That isn't quite the final decision - there's a series of public consultations planned before the Japanese Government makes the final call and they could yet cave to minority political pressure, if there are seats to lose - but PM Abe is pushing pretty hard for nuclear power. There are 17 more reactors with re-start applications pending. That's not all of them (there are 48 reactors in total), but it's a large chunk of Japanese nuclear generating capacity. The 6 reactors at Fukushima will never be re-started.
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... we're going to build 27 new nuclear reactors. No complaints from Greens then.
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Since I've never met a card-carrying greenie who
didn't complain about nuclear power, I find this very hard to believe.
