“For just five percent of what the U.S. spent on covid recoveries, we could’ve bought out every single coal plant in the world and shut it down.” The great
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"It's very cost effective to do this is that if you were to plot the cost per ton, the abatement cost of buying out and shutting down old coal plants compared to just about every other abatement opportunity we have, it is pennies on the dollar. It is stupidly cheap."
"I've had people working on green banks here in the US and internationally say that if they were honest about plotting how they should use new green bank dollars, it'd be really hard not to justify spending all of it on buying out coal plants and shutting it down..."
"...just because the sheer volume of abatement potential per dollar spent is incredible."
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