The worst 5% of power plants produce 75% of CO2 (opens in new tab)

(arstechnica.com)

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neximo644y ago· 1 in thread

2018

Plant name Country Tons of CO2 Fuel Age MW

1 Belchatow Poland 37,600,000 Coal 27 5298

2 Vindhyachal India 33,877,953 Coal 14 4760

3 Dangjin S. Korea 33,500,000 Coal 10 6115

4 Taean S. Korea 31,400,000 Coal 12 6100

5 Taichung Taiwan 29,900,000 Coal 22 5834

6 Tuoketuo China 29,460,000 Coal 10 6720

7 Niederaussem Germany 27,200,000 Coal 38 3826

8 Sasan Umpp India 27,198,628 Coal 3 3960

9 Yonghungdo S. Korea 27,000,000 Coal 9 5080

10 Hekinan Japan 26,640,000 Coal 21 4100

Surprised to see that none in the top 10 are in the Americas. Europe has a fair contribution, or specifically Poland and Germany.

marshallbananas4y ago

The Polish government always had a thing for people in funny hats. Miners are treated like royalty there. Poland just loves when people sacrifice themselves for no good reason at all, and the more suffering it brings the better. Miners are portrayed as national heroes everywhere from elementary books to evening news. You can't touch them. And the whole country is scared of clean energy because of Chernobyl. So they proceed to kill millions silently. They also talk shit about Russia all day and then end up getting the worst deal for Russian gas that they are totally dependent on.

randyrand4y ago

Needs to be relative to megawatts prodoced, not to "power plant count".

Some plants are tiny, others huge.

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