China's PM2.5 output is overwhelmingly attributed to its coal power plants, so I think it's a bit of a rhetorical stretch to call what I said an "ignorant lie". Further:
* The Chinese coal industry is built out of boiler designs that are difficult to retrofit the "clean coal" stack of technologies on
* Despite aggressive investment in filtration and treatment in the US, field studies show fluctuating (at times increasing) levels of PM2.5 pollution in cities near coal plants
* Reductions in PM2.5 matching the levels stated by the coal industry documents you're providing depend not just on expensive retrofits of existing plants, but also on careful selection of (more expensive) higher-grade coal, and on expensive ongoing upkeep of consumable filtration components
I'm not opposed to clean coal, where its efficiency and effectiveness can be demonstrated and, equally importantly, regulated. But that's not the Chinese coal industry.
* The Chinese coal industry is built out of boiler designs that are difficult to retrofit the "clean coal" stack of technologies on
* Despite aggressive investment in filtration and treatment in the US, field studies show fluctuating (at times increasing) levels of PM2.5 pollution in cities near coal plants
* Reductions in PM2.5 matching the levels stated by the coal industry documents you're providing depend not just on expensive retrofits of existing plants, but also on careful selection of (more expensive) higher-grade coal, and on expensive ongoing upkeep of consumable filtration components
I'm not opposed to clean coal, where its efficiency and effectiveness can be demonstrated and, equally importantly, regulated. But that's not the Chinese coal industry.