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Originally Posted by furrybean
My thinking is that we need to be responsible for our carbon footprint yadda yadaa but it isnt fair to tax the hell out of us when the other big economies like the US China and Russia are far worse offenders without any or little comeback.
Heard a statistic the other day that China has a coal powered power station come online every 7 - 10 day and each one is much more pooluting than Drax. Scarey stuff!!!! If you look at Sweden and other Scandanavian countries and their attitude to energy effieciency I think we should go down that road and use new technologies to improve the amount of energy used, with triple glazing compulsory on new builds etc.
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Considering I work for the company that has provided over 25% of the worlds installed base, and have personally worked on a number of power plants in China. I would like to defend our record.
We treat pollution seriously and have developed a number of technologies to reduce Nox and sulphur emissions. We design to the same high standards irrespective of location and have entered into a number of technology transfer agreement with Chinese companies to enable them to produce energy as cleanly as practical. New more efficient cleaner power plant should be encouraged. Scare mongering unsubstantiated allegations that certain countries are installing dirty power plants are simply not true.
I have also worked on 2 nuclear plants in China, at Daya Bay and Ling Ao in Guang Dong province, the design and controls are of european design. would you seriously want to encourage the Chinese authorities to develop home grown nuclear plant as a "Cleaner" alternative.
China is also building huge hydroelectric solutions at the 3 gorges project. Not only will it provide a huge amount of electricity and finally control the Yangtze river. but typical environmentalists they then condemn this clean energy project.