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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 08, 2009 6:32 pm) http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS106969+05-Jan-2009+PRN20090105 I will be curious to see if they can actually start construction, how long it will take to build and will they be able to build it without big cost overruns. To answer one of your questions - "Do we generate electricity with coal in a cleaner manner than China?" Yes. I did my yearly visit to several coal plants in ND and they keep making improvements. The plants in China on the other hand seem to be rather dirty. http://www.basinelectric.com/News_Center/News_About_Us/New_chimney_at_Leland_Old- .html http://mydocs.epri.com/docs/public/000000000001013060.pdf Table 6. Top-25 Highest CO2-Emitting Power Plants Worldwide (Format: Plant City Country Tons of CO2) * 1 TAICHUNG Lung-Ching Township Taiwan (China) 41,300,000 * 2 PORYONG Poryong-gun South Korea 37,800,000 * 3 CASTLE PEAK Tuen Mun NT China 35,800,000 * 4 REFTINSKAYA SDPP Reftinsky Russia 33,000,000 * 5 TUOKETUO-1 Tuoketuo County China 32,400,000 * 6 MAILIAO FP Mailiao Taiwan (China) 32,400,000 * 7 VINDHYACHAL Sidhi Dist India 29,000,000 * 8 HEKINAN Hekinan Japan 28,900,000 * 9 KENDAL Witbank South Africa 28,600,000 * 10 JANSCHWALDE Peitz Germany 27,400,000 * 11 SURALAYA Serang - Merak Indonesia 27,200,000 * 12 TANGJIN Tangjin-kun South Korea 26,900,000 * 13 MAJUBA Volksrust South Africa 26,500,000 * 14 TAEAN Taean South Korea 26,400,000 * 15 BEILUNGANG Ningbo City China 26,000,000 * 16 WAIGAOQIAO Shanghai Pudong China 26,000,000 * 17 TAISHAN Tongluowan China 26,000,000 * 18 BELCHATOW Belchatow 5 Poland 25,500,000 * 19 MATIMBA Ellisras South Africa 25,500,000 * 20 SCHERER Juliette United States 25,300,000 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114163448.htm China's 2030 CO2 Emissions Could Equal the Entire World's Today http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/chinas-2030-co2.html Changing to CFL bulbs or buying a new 116D BMW (CO2 emissions of 118 g/km) isn't going to make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.
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Replying to: avalon02wh (Jan 10, 2009 9:19 am) In light of the above quote, it has been truly amazing (since 2002 that I have been following this) how much effort has gone into "choking" off and containing the diesel CAR population. Counting ALL of the VWdiesel population in 32 years, selling (Edmunds.com article on 2009 Jetta TDI) 850,000 diesel in the USA market can bearly hit the immeasurable market  .850/254.1M= .0033451% aka app 1/3 of 1 percent !!!! A diesel car albeit low number of oems is still in the vanguard of the perfect storm ! The factors making this so, almost guarantee it to be so FAR into the future. |
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Quakes shake loose fears about Yellowstone volcano By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 10, 10:44 am ET link title |
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Replying to: avalon02wh (Jan 10, 2009 9:19 am) Just to put the whole thing in perspective. The first power plant on the list puts out more CO2 than 6,661,000 VW Jetta TDIs would, if driven the average 15k miles per year. So if we all quit driving ICE vehicles and switched magically to EV would we really cut GHG that much. Those 20 coal plants are about equal to half the cars on our roads in the USA. Buying CFL bulbs will mainly put a lot of US workers on the street and increase the Chinese GDP. But that is our Congress at work. Here would be a good question. Do our refrigerators contribute as much to GW as our cars?
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Replying to: gagrice (Jan 10, 2009 5:08 pm) |
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Today or tomorrow might be a good day to poll people in the vast majority of the country to ask them if they are too warm?  How cold would it be without the GW we've already cause?  Personally I'll be putting towels, blankets, and sleeping bags against my windows. Oil, electric heaters, and wood will also be going, as we still don't have enough GW to turn them off. I'd like to have Al Gore come over and camp out in my yard for a few days, if he lives, and have him tell me how the Earth is too warm.
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 14, 2009 5:44 am) Stay warm!
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 14, 2009 7:24 am) 
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gagrice - 80F and happy; average temp. of the Earth = 59F, kernick - 5F tonight and very unhappy. I'd prefer the 80F also! Can't wait for Fri. where the forecast is a high of <10F, and much colder at night.
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Replying to: kernick (Jan 14, 2009 1:36 pm) http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=alpine%2C+ca |
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