This ignores that coal actually contributes a meaningful amount of electricity around the clock.
By the way, 100ppm of mercury or 10ppm of uranium aren't that high, you can find that in nature as well.
By the way, 100ppm of mercury or 10ppm of uranium aren't that high, you can find that in nature as well.
https://amp.ft.com/content/a05d1dd4-dddd-11e9-9743-db5a37048...
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/1355/measuring-sola...
Worldwide coal provides a lot more power than wind [1], although of course it still produces more waste and pollution and everything per TWh than renewables.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
The exceptions are practically rounding errors, even though Siberia is one of those regions that is worse than the UK and has 33 million people in it.
https://www.acaa-usa.org/Portals/9/Files/PDFs/2018-Charts.pd...