China: 1000 deaths per day due to fossil fuel pollution. How to solve it?
- Thread starter Jack.Yarn
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China just approved the world’s largest power company with more than 225 gigawatts of capacity
- Electricity producer China Guodian and coal company Shenhua Group to merge.
- Most energy of new entity generated from coal.
- Beijing on drive to cut waste at huge state-owned enterprises.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/chi...a-to-create-worlds-largest-power-company.html
Just FYI, although 225 gigawatts powers a lot of homes, it still only enough to power about 8% of all homes in China at full capacity. 92.1% will still be powered by coal.
It's a little bit like walking into a room where 12 people are smoking and 1 decides to quit. You're not going to really notice the difference.