smallsnow

It is true that coal is the major source to generate electricity and the importance of coal cannot be changed in the foreseeable future. However, I still think the electric company should take the first step of shifting the domination of coal to some other renewable energy sources as you stated. If I push your points further, it is not just simply environmental issue. It will affect your health and lead to cancer (as you could imagined, those dust particles from burning coal). I will think this is more like a long term investment and obviously a certain price must be paid to achieve such goal. For example, we now have hybrid car and developing hydrogen cell car so we do not need to use gasoline as the only option for energy source. Why do we do that? The manufacturing and reseraching  cost is obviously a lot higher than using the regular car. The reason is quite obvious, which I believe kind of parallel to  this topic. To conclude, I think we must move forward for a better environment. How quickly do we move and how do we balance the problems you stated? These questions we can filter-004ed later on after the electric company is willing to take an active role on protecting the environement.

[ 本帖最後由 smallsnow 於 2008-10-15 10:43 AM 編輯 ]