Friday, December 14, 2007

Light 'em Up: Shanghai and CO2


Shanghai: Night Lights, originally uploaded by johnnyringo82.
Via John Kelly

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Last month, China's biggest coal-burning plant, a 4000-megawatt complex built at a cost of $US2.1billion ($A2.4 billion), started supplying electricity to energy-hungry factories and cities on the east coast.
The official China Electricity Council said earlier this year that 90,000 megawatts of coal-fired generating capacity the equivalent of 90 nuclear power stations had been added to the national grid in 2006 alone. This staggering figure may well include some double counting.

From the Canberra Times