新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：You Could Power America With China’s Wasted Energy
新闻日期：2024-09-05
美国可以说是全球最大的煤生产国之一。即使自2008年以来产量下降了近半，去年仍然达到了约5270万吨，位居全球第四。然而，即便把所有美国的煤锅炉和高炉运行到2025年感恩节，中国工业过去两年积累的煤炭储备也足够供应整个美国的需求。截至6月末，这些储备总量达到6360万吨，足以覆盖新加坡一层近一米厚的煤尘。
原文摘要：
By any stretch of the imagination, the US is one of the world’s biggest coal producers. Even after declining by about half since 2008, output last year was still about 527 million metric tons, the fourth-biggest total globally. And yet you could keep all of America’s coal boilers and blast furnaces going until Thanksgiving in 2025 with the reserves of solid fuel that Chinese industries have built up in the last couple of years.. The reasons for the emergence of this vast mountain — 636 million metric tons at the end of June, sufficient to cover Singapore in a layer of soot nearly a meter deep — aren’t a great mystery. When stocks ran perilously low in late 2021 and prompted widespread power cuts, Beijing ordered mines and power stations to boost their output and stockpiles so that something similar wouldn’t happen again..
