- 30 Nov 2020 05:35
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Dubai has fired up a coal-fired power plant to generate electricity. Despite its well-known oil wealth, this route was something the Dubai emirate has been planning for several years, to accommodate tourist and local traffic and provide sufficient electricity for the inhabitants of this small country.
The construction of the $3.4 billion Hassyan plant in Dubai appears puzzling, as the United Arab Emirates hosts the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency. It’s also building the peninsula’s first nuclear power plant and endlessly promotes its vast solar-power plant named after Dubai’s ruler. Dubai has also set the lofty goal of having the world’s lowest carbon footprint in the world by 2050 - something that would be impacted by burning coal.
The coal plant's arrival comes as Gulf Arab nations remain among the world’s hungriest for energy and amid political concerns over the use of natural gas imported from abroad, concerns underscored by a years-long dispute with gas-producer Qatar, which is boycotted by four Arab nations, including the UAE.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbre ... 0992adc83e October 2020
Is this simply because renewable energy isn't actually all that practical?
I mean, Dubai is a rich country - rich enough to embark on all sorts of over-the-top ostentatious luxury building projects. If renewable energy were so easy, you would think they would have done it.
It would be interesting to hear what Dubai's government would say in response to someone from a (English-speaking / Western European) White country trying to chastise them for starting up a coal-fired power plant.
The construction of the $3.4 billion Hassyan plant in Dubai appears puzzling, as the United Arab Emirates hosts the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency. It’s also building the peninsula’s first nuclear power plant and endlessly promotes its vast solar-power plant named after Dubai’s ruler. Dubai has also set the lofty goal of having the world’s lowest carbon footprint in the world by 2050 - something that would be impacted by burning coal.
The coal plant's arrival comes as Gulf Arab nations remain among the world’s hungriest for energy and amid political concerns over the use of natural gas imported from abroad, concerns underscored by a years-long dispute with gas-producer Qatar, which is boycotted by four Arab nations, including the UAE.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbre ... 0992adc83e October 2020
Is this simply because renewable energy isn't actually all that practical?
I mean, Dubai is a rich country - rich enough to embark on all sorts of over-the-top ostentatious luxury building projects. If renewable energy were so easy, you would think they would have done it.
It would be interesting to hear what Dubai's government would say in response to someone from a (English-speaking / Western European) White country trying to chastise them for starting up a coal-fired power plant.