When You Tell China To Reduce Carbon Emissions | The Hollowmen 

Yep. I remember the name of the captain of the Chinese ship that crashed into the barrier reef. Wen Wong Whey. Mate I am of Chinese heritage. But I am Australian first. Ozzie's can take the Mickey.

Resonates with the world, really! I can't stop watching these clips and would love to be able to see the whole show.

Australia" We are closing down our coal fired power plants because it harms the environment. Also Australia: Please buy our coal.

Just like Yes, Minister.

Totally agree! If you watch the 1980s series, Yes, Minister, it's still relevant today.

Clean coal is another name for smokeless coal which burn and give out much less black soot.

@@kongwee1978 No,Clean coal does not release carbon dioxide. 😄

@@kongwee1978 the main problem is that you are still releasing co2 emissions which hasten climate change rather than move on to less harmful sources like nuclear energy

Yes, china should stop and you are allow to continue to use coal power. :)@@g-forcemapping8454

​@@g-forcemapping8454read the actual studies please. If you believe this it will give you knowledge to convince people....or you may change your mind

He could probably even make Rhonda fear for her life. Different show I know but he just does it so well.

GRAEME BLUNDELL. Wrote Grahma Kennedy's biography.

He thoroughly dominated everyone in that room... Epic. 😅

Yeah get that. Bit out of touch but connected and see that behind the scene can be more important than the public view.

That's because they're thick.

the ABC has commissioned working dog to do that stuff. Commissioning that group to do Frontline, The Hollowmen and Utopia is a great thing don't get me wrong.

Check out the thick of it.

This show was made in 2008

@@anthonydpearson Really? I wonder how I've missed it all these years!

I mean, they have to in order to appease the yuppies and female voters who want to have their cake and eat it too. I feel bad for the tradies who'll inevitably lose their jobs when these jobs get outsourced, all so those fiddlesticks can have their stock prices rise a quarter of a point.

I think this show, much like Yes Minister, was smarter than Doctor Who, I mean the thick of it. The thick of it might have been more like how these people talk in private though.

“The Thick of It” is the show you are thinking of. It is a much meaner show than this one seems to be, like “Veep” in the US is a mean show. Most of the humor in Thick is Capaldi viciously insulting people that work with him. This show, like Yes, Minister, is poking fun at the absurdity of government.

are you making a joke unintentionally ?

Of course it is a documentary. The actors are portraying real life politicians putting profit above having a sustainable environment. That there is "context" label simply indicates that there is lots of misinformation about this topic. How do you suppose it is the government telling us how to think ?

Technology is cleaner, well it is cleaner in China. European plants has been lagging behind on technology development and equipment upgrade and US is even worse in this regard. Modern plants (again, in China) has been using grounded coal powder since the 1980s (which will increase the combustion efficiency and has less particles in the exhaust), the modern combustion chambers and turbines are also built with heat recycling ability to improve the higher efficiency. But to be honest, the biggest improvement is probably that they moved the power stations to more remote corners of the country and then just transport power using newer ultra-high voltage transmission. The practical reality is that in order to accommodate the growing renewable energy penetration in the grid, you need to maintain a certain percentage of coal/gas based plants to deal with grid demand swings. The Chinese were trying not to rely on Middle East back in 1990s (since it was controlled by US back then) and the Russians were trying to sucking up to Europeans. So the Chinese were mostly using Australian/Indonesian coal and Central Asian gas for quite a while. This is, of course, until the Chinese can finally make nuclear fusion power generation commercially available, which is actually not that far away (as in, probably will happen within 30 years).

@@qichen85 Yeah, go to South Korea when the pollution clouds from China come over and the smog reduces visibility down to a couple of hundred yards and shut down airline traffic and say that.

there is soot and then there is CO2 ...

@@howard5992 good point. Though I thought tech to reduce CO2 was part of that. If not , I know atmospheric carbon capture tech is getting better and better as well. It might develop faster than we can get the electric grids ready for mass adoption of electric cars. Cheers, tho.

@@michaelking9964 First ya gotta convince people to buy electric cars. That ain't going so good.