The one down vote just loves coal.

I stated digging coal is bad in any case. My point is your blaming the US as the major contributor is inaccurate based on the numbers.

Yes we do, China burns 4.5 BILLION tons year so as I said, we export a small fraction of what they use. So again your statement that the US is the BIG problem is wrong. I agree we don’t need to dig coal for fuel anymore. But your assumption this is a US problem isn’t even close to the whole picture.

Building new coal plants in any country at any time is absolutely NOT a good solution. The USA also exports only a small fraction of what China uses to them. So I don’t see how the US is the “big problem” in this specific case.The majority of their coal come from Indonesia. Creating a combination of nat gas, hydro nuclear and solar infrastructure is the best solution. I’m not talking out of my ass here, I’m a mechanical engineer in the stationary engineering field working at a major power plant.

That’s interesting. China and India still primarily use coal for electricity generation. Neither are considered developing nations. Many poor countries use coal because its cheap and easy to transport. Instead of throwing money at poor countries why not build natural gas lines and/or nuke plants.

Is the money saved going to help American citizens in any way? Surely public Healthcare is on the other side of this…

Jesus, coal is such a horrible source of energy. Global efforts are going to be needed to make that obsolete shit disapear completely.