TomTom + 183 September 12, 2018 A report released on Monday has found that between January 2013 and July 2018, Japanese financial institutions have poured US$92 billion into coal and nuclear development—a sum bigger than the gross domestic product of Sri Lanka. Now I knew that Japan was one of the only countries that is actually actively increasing coal power generation capacity, but I didn't know they committed this much money... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ceo_energemsier + 1,818 cv September 12, 2018 Coal, NC, and has hydrates and natgas-LNG Energy security and sustainability at reasonable costs 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CMOP + 227 September 12, 2018 🤑 That's a whole lot of money. So they invested $92 billion into coal and nuclear in their country. And $100 Billion into solar in India. Hmm https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/japans-softbank-to-invest-100-billion-in-india-solar-power-project.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ceo_energemsier + 1,818 cv September 13, 2018 21 hours ago, CMOP said: 🤑 That's a whole lot of money. So they invested $92 billion into coal and nuclear in their country. And $100 Billion into solar in India. Hmm https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/japans-softbank-to-invest-100-billion-in-india-solar-power-project.html Apparently India gets more sun than Japan to justify 100bil$ in solar investment in India 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CMOP + 227 September 13, 2018 1 minute ago, ceo_energemsier said: Apparently India gets more sun than Japan to justify 100bil$ in solar investment in India Indeed this is true. Not to mention a whole lot of more space ;] 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites