How Poland's Bełchatów Coal Plant Can Go Green | Documentary | Bloomberg Philanthropies
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Carbon pollution is driving climate change around the world, resulting in a wide and worsening range of negative effects, from increased asthma attacks to more extreme fires and floods. Fortunately, cheaper, emissions-free renewable alternatives to coal and other fossil fuels are available now. Learn more about Poland's Bełchatów coal plant and the clean energy transition plan and visit our website for more information about our environment work: bloomberg.org/environment.
About Bloomberg Philanthropies:
Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 700 cities and 150 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The organization focuses on creating lasting change in five key areas: the Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health. Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg’s giving, including his foundation, corporate, and personal philanthropy as well as Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy that advises cities around the world. In 2023, Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed $3 billion.
Subscribe to the Bloomberg Philanthropies RUclips Channel: / @bloombergdotorg
More from Bloomberg Philanthropies:
X: / bloombergdotorg
Instagram: / bloombergdotorg
Facebook: / bloombergdotorg
LinkedIn: / bloomberg-philanthropies
Website: www.bloomberg....
Sign up for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Impact Newsletter: www.bloomberg....
#BloombergPhilanthropies #GlobalWarming #Poland #RenewableEnergy #ClimateChange
How Poland's Belchatow Coal Plant Can Go Green | Documentary | Bloomberg Philanthropies
• How Poland's Bełchatów...
The boilers in those coal plants can be replaced by deep geothermal. All the other infrastructure can be reused. This is way less expensive than nuclear.
Check out Canadian company Eavor, Slovakia company GA drilling and US company Quaise Energy.
🇨🇦!
I have heard about Eavor, but Slovakia's company is new to me. Thx for sharing.
Why not consider big nuclear plants? Poland is already building them
belchatow is not optimal location for nuclear, lignite plants are cost efficient as they are basicaly build directly on lignite mine and lignite is cheap open pit extraction, for nuclear u need a good water source for cooling and there are far better locations in Poland for that (the original nuclear project location from the 80es was Zarnowiec which turned out to become a hydro power plant at the end)
@@herrpasz1151 Its true that there are better locations, maybe filling the open pit mine with water would also be an option
they can obsolutely be, they include a bit of nuclear in the report.
Yet beyond coal is not inclusive of nuclear at all.
This is a blind spot.
@@erik7853The problem is that this powerplant is located on a highland, the nearest river Widawka is tiny and it will take decades to fill the open pit mine.
My mother sill lives in Bełchatów, thanks to smart visioners from Bełchatów and Bloomberg ;-). Great idea.
As far as Bełchatów mines are concerned, coal was discovered in the early 1960s and only a dozen or so years later the construction of the power plant we know today began. I live in Bełchatów and from my house I can see not only the tip of the chimney but also smoke.
Solar + battery storage will be the dominating energy production source, with some wind. Small nuclear is looking less and less likely due to extreme cost and delays.
Lithium mining and processing is very water intensive. 😞
What about stationary battery storage? It wasn't mentioned.
sand batteries are the solution!
Nuclear power is the future of baseload energy where over coal once dominated.. Even here in Alberta our last coal power plant gets converted to natural gas this Summer while we wait for new nuclear to come online along with added renewables...
Not likely , too expensive and takes a long time .
Solar and wind + battery storage create baseload, coupled with hydro. Nuclear isn’t likely due to high cost and massive delays.
Thank you.
This is a terrible narrow report.
Nuclear is the base-source for Poland future energy source, with added wind and solar (which will need the extra cost of batteries)
Poland has 100 Nuclear reactors planned across the country.
Even in this report they consider maybe 1 small reactor scenario.
This is just a terrible insight.
Not sure why but I don't trust those analyst 🤣
Coal power plants are not Poland's main source of air pollution. Burning coal and wood in homes (for heating) is.
Meanwhile, Germany is restoring brown coal-fired power plants to operation xD
Is it really though?
Without Nuclear power it cannot be.
Good luck - this power plant provides 20% of cheap energy for Poland and together with the lignite coal mine this is where most of people from Belchatow are employed. Not sure how they plan to do this without decimating employment and making energy way more expensive and causing local and PL economy to collapse (which already started as companies started relocating to different countries without the EU restrictions). Europe emits about 8% of green-house-gas so even if EU is carbon neutral instantly it would not change much globally. China needs to start reducing emissions (USA already started reductions slowly). See World Emissions Clock service for data. Regards 🤗
That's exactly what they want, tho.
That's the plan, make Poland another miserable, stagnant economy.
i can see the chimney coal mine poland near zittau from my house
Turów, Bogatynia.
@@mikadorek1 yes im sitting on my computer upstairs i can see the chimney smoke
i doesnt need to go green it needs to produce energy
Have you wanted the video? It has to transition because coal is running out and it wouldn’t be economically viable to burn other coal in this particular power plant.
@@BB-hx4mj The coal is not running out. There is just pressure from globalists not to invest in mines anymore.
It is KEY to not fixate on only ONE solution, but as highlighted here in these recommendations to branch out to provide a diverse energy generation and storage solutions, but ☢toxic radioactive nuclear☢WASTE with the hundreds of thousands of years of environmental risks is a DEFINITE NO.
Geothermal is another technology that can be incorporated to generate energy and as a part of energy storage capacity such as with thermal mass sand along with its use in district heating coupled with heat pump systems.
little bit of nuclear waste vs hazardous coal emissions, polluting the air and pumping billions of tons of CO2 in the air... I wonder which one will allow for the continued habitation of earth.
Nuclear recycling exists that takes 95% of all the boogey-waste and reuses it to create more power. You have no clue what you are talking about whatsoever that's clear...
well poland is definitely going nuclear as they should. together with solar, wind, battery storage, e-fuels, geothermal, etc.. they will have a bright energy future to look forward to
Your understand of nuclear lacks any foundation.
Yes there isn't one solution.
Poland is going all in on nuclear for electricity and heat.
There a more then 100 nuclear reactor in various planning/consideration stages.
Nuclear means you need security apparatus forever. To protect against terrorist or foreign adversaries attack of facilities waste and used infrastructure. I’d have thought you’d have had enough of state control already.
XDDDD meanwihle germ*ny bulding more coal plants