Living next to a coal-fired power station

Some 200 kilometers North of Beijing, on the edge of the city of Zhangjiakou, is the largest coal-fired power station of China. The inhabitants of the village beside the plant are divided about it.

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• China
• environment
• coal-fired
• power
• station

[5smith214]

China sucks there trying to buy up all our good American coal. We are gonna need it. Stop coal export!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[georg841984]

china neds bethe tecnology to take care of the problem in usa they have taken care of these things and the only

problem there is co2

watch the first power vid and u understand what i mean

[acidorian]

the sulfur content of the coal makes no difference on the soot produced. it only increases so2 and potentially "acid rain". what the locals are claiming is "soot" is not soot at all from the stacks, but rather coal dust from the transportation of the fuel, in fact most complaints about coal "soot" is due to improper handling of the coal; not tarping trucks, not wetting it before unloading etc. few people knowthat most "smoke" in china is from natural dust and manmade dust not "smoke" emissions.

[andyg3]

why does everyone picture cooling towers as polluters, all they do is emit steam, not smoke.

[richie674]

Those people need educating, as you say they are cooling towers & produce steam not smoke , which is coming from the 3 smoke stacks the other side of the cooling towers , they must be burning high sulphur coal for that much soot to land on the ground & china is powered by over 500 coal fired power stations today.

[airpower123]

yeh lol, asians are just trying to show off the westurn world, they dont relise that we had these over 100 years ago

[Snillum76]

Those are cooling towers, not chimneys.

[Snillum76]

Those are cooling towers, not chimneys.