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5% of Earth's Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector's Emissions:
A group of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder analyzed 2018 data from 29,000 fossil fuel power plants in 221 countries and located the top emitters in the world.
They mapped plants by their carbon dioxide emissions and identified the top 10 "worst-of-the-worst" power plants, which are clustered around Europe, East Asia, and India.
The world's "super-emitters" have a few qualities in common: They are all coal-powered, they are primarily located in the global north and they all operate inefficiently for the amount of energy they generate. Focusing policy responses on mitigating the handful of the worst offenders would go a long way to curbing the climate crisis, the authors find.
[...] Emissions from electricity generation would fall by 17 to 49 percent if these plants were updated for efficiency, offset by carbon capture, or shut off entirely.
Switching from coal and oil to natural gas would be a start, the authors say. Grant notes that he and his fellow researchers "also embrace renewables," but are also wary that "some countries are not yet ready or willing to adopt that strategy." Though widely cited by the industry as a "bridge fuel," many environmentalists are now ditching the notion that natural gas is a clean alternative to other fossil fuels. Many believe shutting off fossil fuel power plants and switching to renewables is the only way to curb emissions enough to meet the International Panel on Climate Change's 1.5-degree warming restriction recommendation to limit the worst effects of climate change.
Journal Reference:
Don Grant, David Zelinka, and Stefania Mitova. Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants - IOPscience, Environmental Research Letters (DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 29 2021, @08:33PM (12 children)
Three Mile Island [papost.org]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 29 2021, @09:12PM (11 children)
Again, what was the disaster and ruined lives?
Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the United States' history, and nobody died and nobody got sick even years later.
From the Wikipedia article at
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident [wikipedia.org]
The partial meltdown resulted in the release of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
Anti-nuclear movement activists expressed worries about regional health effects from the accident.[7] However, epidemiological studies analyzing the rate of cancer in and around the area since the accident determined there was not a statistically significant increase in the rate and thus no causal connection linking the accident with these cancers has been substantiated.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Nuclear power's safety record in America exceeds by far that of all other sources.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 29 2021, @09:17PM (10 children)
You had to be there [papost.org]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @01:21AM (9 children)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:11AM (8 children)
You didn't check the the link
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Funny) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:31AM (7 children)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @07:04AM (6 children)
Smooth move ignoring a link like that like why don’t all know why. One can almost hear the circus music sometimes when you post. 🤡
(Score: 1, Funny) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @12:21PM (5 children)
(Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:27PM
:-) You assume much.. Oh well, at least you have confirmed why you are always so obtuse, and wrong about everything I ever posted.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @06:29PM (3 children)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 01 2021, @01:45AM (2 children)
There's no point for an AC to speak of reputation. What reputation for shutting down would you build up, if you were bold enough to post under a name? I bet it would dwarf any reputation I supposedly have for the same.
Was I demanding a pointless link from fustakrakich? Funny how the narratives get so ridiculous. Surely you must run low on straw all the time, with the straw man building you entertain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @05:02AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday August 01 2021, @11:57AM