https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23289/ The Global Energiewende Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://energytransition.org/2020/12/23289/#comment-50581 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:38:11 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=23289#comment-50581 “New data reveals that for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the world’s fleet of coal-fired power stations has grown smaller. ” The world’s first coal-fuelled power station was opened in London in 1882. The previous century of the Industrial Revolution had indeed been powered by coal – in the form of steam boilers and reciprocating engines turning steam into mechanical energy directly..

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