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TL;DR: No -- due to the length of time it takes a coal plant to return to full output after shutting down, it will not produce more emissions during startup than a fully-loaded plant over the same time period.
Typical coal plant in the U.S.
From the monthly generator inventory I determined that in the U.S. the median utility and independent power producer (...
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