East Asia shifts from coal to natural gas

So this bit of news isn’t strictly related to solar or solar panels, but it is about energy so I thought I’d write about it.

Natural gas in East Asia now costs about as much as coal in terms of units of energy. This is great news for the environment and people that like to breathe air since natural gas puts out about half the CO2 as coal and much, much less of the nasty stuff that contributes to air pollution and respiratory diseases like sulfur and mercury.

You can read more about the changes occurring because of the decline in price, but generally speaking countries such as Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are switching to this cleaner burning fuel for electricity production. Of course an even cleaner source of electrons is solar power!