China’s generally very effective development machine faces new challenges. With inflation on the rise and heavily relying on export oriented low cost and energy intensive industries, China’s bureaucracy scrambles to keep electricity costs down. One might consider this to be an easy task. After all, utilities are state controlled and basically have to follow orders….
Tag Archive: Climate Change
Coal Power – Micronesia Disputes Czech Power Plant
The Czech republic, which relies on coal for more than 60 percent of its power generation, plans to build one of the biggest coal power stations in Europe. Its CO2 emissions will be 40 times bigger than the total CO2 emissions of the whole state of Micronesia. The small state, situated mostly just one meter…
Coal – China Burns the Coal That we Save
It is now generally acknowledged that coal-fired power plants emits huge amounts of the greenhouse gas CO2 and menace the world climate more than other sources of energy. As a consequence developed countries are trying to switch to other more sustainable power sources. Unfortunately the saved coal is still being mined and then shipped to…
Shower – Hot or Warm Water for Feeling Refreshed?
What do you do after a hot day? Taking a cold shower. Sounds logical and is not completely wrong. However, as this article suggests, it’s not completely right either. The body’s temperature regulation reacts to different sensors. The inside body temperature is important but skin sensors are also taken into account enabling preemptive reaction…
Spiegel – Pseudo-Scientific Opinion Concerning Climate Change
The German magazine “der Spiegel”, known for being critical, has a very clear position concerning climate change: It doesn’t exist. Facing a general consensus among the relevant scientists, stating that there is indeed human made global warming, the Spiegel goes to great lengths to find self-declared experts, which support the magazines position. Numerous articles all…
Climate Change – Free-Riders Punished by Investors
The ”Carbon Disclosure Project” collects and publishes data concerning climate relevant behavior of corporations. While this alone is not noteworthy, it gets interesting because more than 400 investors of multinational companies are relying on this database in order to make investment and cooperation decisions. 56% of interviewed firms declare to take the climate-consciousness of suppliers…
