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: Coal
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…
China – Takes the Lead in the Solar- and Windenergy-Industry
China has a very bad reputation concerning the environmentally friendly energy production – every second day, a new coal-fired power plant comes on stream. Some of these hundreds of additional plants replace older even less-efficient ones but they still represent a major problem for the urgent global reduction of greenhouse gas. However, one should not…
