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The article mixes a few things. CO2 emissions are climate change relevant, but for pollution in Beijing there are other emissions from these coal power plants r
by lispm 12y ago
The article mixes a few things. CO2 emissions are climate change relevant, but for pollution in Beijing there are other emissions from these coal power plants responsible. Modern coal power plant have much lower emissions in general, but not for CO2. Probably the coal power plants are so old, that it is not effective to modernize them with modern filtering systems, higher efficiency, etc.
- khepin 12y agoMany of those plants are decades old, and poorly managed. But they're also ran by state owned companies which means there's no market incentive towards efficiency and a huge amount of politics regarding what you do. I worked almost 10 years ago for a European company doing district heating in China. In a smaller city in the north of China, they were able to replace the 19 existing coal plants with a single one.