• We’ll soon know the exact air pollution from every power plant in the world.
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https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/7/18530811/global-power-plants-real-time-pollution-data In a nutshell: A nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public. This is a very big deal. Poor monitoring and gaming of emissions data have made it difficult to enforce pollution restrictions on power plants. This system promises to effectively eliminate poor monitoring and gaming of emissions data. And it won’t just be regulators and politicians who see this data; it will be the public too. When it comes to environmental enforcement, the public can be more terrifying and punitive than any regulator. If any citizen group in the world can go online and pull up a list of the dirtiest power plants in their area, it eliminates one of the great informational barriers to citizen action.
And it won’t just be regulators and politicians who see this data; it will be the public too. When it comes to environmental enforcement, the public can be more terrifying and punitive than any regulator. If any citizen group in the world can go online and pull up a list of the dirtiest power plants in their area, it eliminates one of the great informational barriers to citizen action. A noble statement but utility owners and fossil fuel suppliers won't give two shits about being shamed. It has to be the policy makers who enforce it with law.
Imagine finding out a great deal of air pollution in your area was from the country next door.
Yup. Itt'l be all over the public infosphere that these guys are the real polluters, but they'll continue to get handouts, grants, protections, all while we're forced to spend money we don't have in a vaint attempt to take up the slack.
can't wait to see NASA's director suddenly pull the plug and funding on this program just before the data starts coming in
Ironically, wars starting because people are polluting too much sounds beneficial
Happens with Germany and France, France is largely Nuclear powered, while Germany still has major Coal, Natural Gas, and other non-clean energy sources.
If only they had some of that clean coal we got in the states.
You can actually capture the byproducts from coal burning, but the price of that makes coal even less competitive than natural gas (which is killing coal anyway). Still would be more deadly per kWh than say nuclear.
going to war over pollution and environmental degradation is 100% justifiable and should have already happened
Did that really fool anyone? Reminds me of some cars here being "clean diesel"
yes (official australian government website) and our prime minister: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRo3R8GFJPFS7hitrPKyag91zrwobdAklrjYT_qQQcc0kZ1Og_B "hey mate, whats the matter, you coalaphobic????"
is this guy fucking retarded
dont believe it? make sure you read the 100% not biased sources they link at the bottom
I think by this point it is getting too late.
Excellent, we will now have a strategic map for coordinating our private army of torch and pitchfork wielding angry peasants.
The McDonalds pant shitting is a fake meme but I wish it were real with a video of the incident
What's more likely is people will want places other than where they live to shutdown because the pollution producers where they live are probably the central job producer of the town or city. "If only those other people shut down their awful pollution plant, it wouldn't be so bad if our plant stayed up and running"
You'll have to be careful with those torches, they'll be able to track the mobs location by following the CO2 they put out.
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