MIT debunks Chinese air pollution myth

[arno]

The problem isn't in the technology, it's the operations A detailed analysis of powerplants in China by MIT researchers debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that country's notorious air-pollution problems.

MIT report debunks China energy myth - MIT News Office

[hoon]

"New market pressures encourage plant managers to buy the cheapest, lowest quality and most-polluting coal available, while at the same time idle expensive-to-operate smokestack scrubbers or other cleanup technologies. The physical infrastructure is advanced, but the emissions performance ends up decidedly retrograde."

Sounds like a lack of regulation to me.

[August]

Sounds like a lack of commitment, too. But okay: who's going to get to say anything useful to the cencorship prone authorities of China? And be heard?!