{"id":651,"date":"2026-05-17T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/?p=651"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:44:18","slug":"solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Solar power production undercut by coal pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities in the coal produce a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols, as well as nitrous and nitrogen oxides. Then there\u2019s the coal ash that\u2019s left behind, which typically contains a lot of toxic metals. The health benefits of displacing coal power are typically estimated to be well above the costs of the new generating equipment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But a new study suggests that the problems with coal-derived pollution go beyond health; it interferes with other power sources. Researchers have found that aerosols, both natural and human-derived, significantly reduce the power we could be getting from solar panels, to the tune of hundreds of terawatts a year. And a lot of those aerosols come from burning coal.<\/p>\n<h2>A big impact<\/h2>\n<p>The new work, done by a team in the UK, is based on a new global inventory of solar facilities. This started with known inventories of solar facilities, and was supplemented with AI-analyzed satellite imagery and crowdsourced records of locations. Satellite images were then used to determine the size of these facilities, and location-tagged weather data could then be used to estimate their power production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/05\/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/05\/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/05\/solar-power-production-undercut-by-coal-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Orijinal Kayna\u011fa Git<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities in the coal produce a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols, as well as nitrous and nitrogen oxides. Then there\u2019s the coal ash that\u2019s left behind, which typically contains a lot of toxic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biyer.com.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}