{"id":10652,"date":"2026-02-22T04:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/south-africa-is-moving-away-from-coal-how-mines-and-power-stations-could-be-used-for-green-energy-and-farming\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:02:42","slug":"south-africa-is-moving-away-from-coal-how-mines-and-power-stations-could-be-used-for-green-energy-and-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/south-africa-is-moving-away-from-coal-how-mines-and-power-stations-could-be-used-for-green-energy-and-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa is moving away from coal\u2014how mines and power stations could be used for green energy and farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    South Africa is moving away from coal\u2014how mines and power stations could be used for green energy and farming<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Globally, nearly 7,000 coal mines, more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants and hundreds of coal rail networks, trucks and port terminals all make up the world&#8217;s coal industry. When coal is phased out and green energy phased in, these coal assets can either be abandoned or turned into something that is useful for communities.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-south-africa-coal-power-stations.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa is moving away from coal\u2014how mines and power stations could be used for green energy and farming Globally, nearly 7,000 coal mines, more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants and hundreds of coal rail networks, trucks and port terminals all make up the world&#8217;s coal industry. When coal is phased out and green energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-green-tech","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}