BBCNEWS Outside Source October 21, 2021 18:06:00
Japan is not a big oil and gas producer, it is a oil and gas consumer. so why is japan not moving to renewable energy instead? that would seem logical to many people, and i think the answer is thatjapan just has a lot of legacy industrial capacity, old industries, big steel industry, big chemicals industry and what we have seen here is the electricity generating industry here is still today building new coal fired power stations. when looked at a brand—new facility south of tokyo the other day, which will go online in 2023, and will run through 2060 or 2070 that will burn coal. now, if that ...
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