Posts Tagged ‘coal’

If we’re talking about conventional electric cars that have to be plugged in, you have to consider how that electricity is being generated. The majority of power plants in this country are COAL-POWERED. If we all had electric cars, we wouldn’t have any exhaust coming out of the cars, but there would be a lot more coal being burned to generate the electricity to charge the cars’ batteries. So how does that reduce pollution?

I hope to move abroad to Lamma Island in Hong Kong. However, on the island there sits a giant coal firing power plant – about 300 metres away from where I plan to live. I’m really sensitive to pollution and I don’t know how much pollution would settle around the plant and how much would be carried away further afield. Any helpful answers would be much appreciated.