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Top Polluting Power Stations list

  • 15-11-2007 3:34pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    http://carma.org/

    TOP 10 EMITTERS

    National power sector emissions (in tonnes of CO2):

    US - 2,530 million
    POP 303,000,000
    China - 2,430 million
    POP 1,300,000,000
    Russia - 600 million
    POP 142,500,000
    India - 529 million
    POP 1,150,000,000
    Japan - 363 million
    POP 127,000,000
    Germany - 323 million
    POP 82,000,000
    Australia - 205 million
    POP 21,000,000
    South Africa - 201 million
    POP 48,000,000
    UK - 192 million
    POP 60,000,000
    South Korea - 168 million
    POP 48,000,000

    Shocking stats from Australia, you'd think they'd have started serious use of the sun by now? France absent due to its Nuclear capacity

    BBC story here

    Mike.


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  • #2
    ircoha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭ircoha


    mike : you link is broken: this is for europe

    http://www.eper.cec.eu.int/eper/


  • #3
    shakeydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 207 ✭✭shakeydude


    irocha,

    I had a look at that website (eper) and the figures they quoted for a power station in the south of Ireland were 3 times greater than that quoted by the station. The figures quoted, in this instance, are from a EPA monitoring station in the Docklands in Cork, so I assume the figures are for all C02 emissions for Cork City and not just the Power station. This gives an unfair appraisal of the C02 being emitted.....I hope I am making sense???:confused::):)


  • #4
    wazzoraybelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 659 ✭✭✭wazzoraybelle


    Wow. I live within 5 miles of these two and according to the website combined they emit a million tonnes of co2.:eek:


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    off the top of my head , Oz has a lot of coal and a lot of mineral processing and a lot of long distance travel

    they seem to have shelved the power tower idea for now
    solar would be good but isnt' coal cheap ?


  • #6
    davidoco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭davidoco


    mike65 wrote: »
    http://carma.org/

    TOP 10 EMITTERS

    National power sector emissions (in tonnes of CO2):

    US - 2,530 million
    POP 303,000,000
    Australia - 205 million
    POP 21,000,000


    Australia are therefore producing 9.7 tonnes per head of pop compared to 8.3 tonnes per head for the Amercians.

    I presume it's all that black coal the Australians are burning.


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  • #7
    ircoha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭ircoha


    CARMA is produced and financed by the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for Global Development, an independent and non-partisan think tank located in Washington, DC.

    The objective of CARMA.org is to equip individuals with the information they need to forge a cleaner, low-carbon future. By providing complete information for both clean and dirty power producers, CARMA hopes to influence the opinions and decisions of consumers, investors, shareholders, managers, workers, activists, and policymakers. CARMA builds on experience with public information disclosure techniques that have proven successful in reducing traditional pollutants.

    For several thousand power plants within the U.S., CARMA relies upon data reported to the Environmental Protection Agency by the plant operators themselves as required by the Clean Air Act. CARMA also includes many official emissions reports for plants in Canada, the European Union, and India. For non-reporting plants, CARMA estimates emissions using a statistical model that has been fitted to data for thousands of reporting plants in the U.S., Canada, the EU, and India. The model utilizes detailed data on plant-level engineering and fuel specifications. CARMA reports emissions for the year 2000, the current year, and the future (based on published plans).
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