More and More and More review: Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever?

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More and More and More review: Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever?

PJKM6Y Weisweiler power plant in Eschweiler, RWE Power AG, brown coal power plant and wind power plants, alternative energy, fossil energy, renewable energy, smoke cloud, Eschweiler, Rhineland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Coal plants and wind turbines coexist rather than replace each other in Westphalia, Germany

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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Allen Lane)

The drive towards decarbonisation and the search for alternative, less-polluting sources of energy vex our planet and its politicians and decision-makers. Many wealthy countries are working to strip pollutants and emissions-belching elements out of our industrial processes and individual lives.

This is an age of environmental consciousness. At least that’s the argument. But it is one Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, a historian of science and technology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research,…



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