How about a Tesla umbrella, the sparks it creates creates ozone that would break down into 02 rather quickly.
Beijing At The Crisis Point as They Declare First Ever Red Alert for Pollution
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Yeah. Heading to Hong Kong tomorrow. I'm as excited as a dog about to go out to enjoy the open air!
It's late afternoon and I just want to rest in bed and watch a film and chat. Just casually climbing five storeys of stairs at a slow pace with no luggage put me out of breath today.
Sat Dec 17, 2016
Beijing's city government ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital, including a major oil refinery run by state oil giant Sinopec, to shut or cut output on Saturday after authorities issued the highest possible air pollution alert.
On Friday, China's environmental watchdog issued a five-day warning about choking smog spreading across the north and ordered factories to shut, recommended residents stay indoors and curbed traffic and construction work.
Red alerts are issued when the air quality index (AQI), a measure of pollutants in the air, is forecast to break 200 for more than four days in succession, surpass 300 for more than two days or overshoot 500 for at least 24 hours.
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre showed an air quality reading of 297 by Saturday afternoon as haze started to envelop the capital, after an earlier reading of around 120. Levels in the 301-500 band are considered hazardous to health.
Traffic on the city's roads was lower than usual as residents complied with limits on car use and many of the city's 22 million residents sat out the haze at home.
More than 40 cities have issued warnings, with 22 on red alert, including top steelmaking city Tangshan in Hebei province around Beijing, and Jinan in coal-rich Shandong province.
"I'll just take a rest and not go outside," said Wang Jianan, a 23-year-old Beijing resident and teaching assistant.
With Christmas just a week away, others resorted to dark humour to help cope with the latest episode of toxic air.
One Beijing resident posted a cartoon on WeChat, China's mobile messaging platform, showing Santa Claus on his slay almost completely obscured by smog, saying: "I can't find China."
The city's municipal government said in a statement Sinopec's 10 million tonne-per-year Yanshan refinery, a Shougang Group steel product plant and a Cofco factory that makes instant noodles and crackers were among 500 companies it had ordered to limit output.
The statement also listed 700 companies that had been ordered to suspend operations altogether.
The national environmental watchdog was sending more than a dozen inspection teams to check that factories and heavy manufacturing plants were complying with the crackdown, it said.
The hazardous air underscores the challenge facing the world's second-largest economy as the government battles pollution caused by the coal-burning power industry and other heavy industry after decades of breakneck economic growth.
Smoggy Beijing, under alert, orders factories to shut or cut output | Reuters
Beijing's city government ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital, including a major oil refinery run by state oil giant Sinopec, to shut or cut output on Saturday after authorities issued the highest possible air pollution alert.
On Friday, China's environmental watchdog issued a five-day warning about choking smog spreading across the north and ordered factories to shut, recommended residents stay indoors and curbed traffic and construction work.
Red alerts are issued when the air quality index (AQI), a measure of pollutants in the air, is forecast to break 200 for more than four days in succession, surpass 300 for more than two days or overshoot 500 for at least 24 hours.
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre showed an air quality reading of 297 by Saturday afternoon as haze started to envelop the capital, after an earlier reading of around 120. Levels in the 301-500 band are considered hazardous to health.
Traffic on the city's roads was lower than usual as residents complied with limits on car use and many of the city's 22 million residents sat out the haze at home.
More than 40 cities have issued warnings, with 22 on red alert, including top steelmaking city Tangshan in Hebei province around Beijing, and Jinan in coal-rich Shandong province.
"I'll just take a rest and not go outside," said Wang Jianan, a 23-year-old Beijing resident and teaching assistant.
With Christmas just a week away, others resorted to dark humour to help cope with the latest episode of toxic air.
One Beijing resident posted a cartoon on WeChat, China's mobile messaging platform, showing Santa Claus on his slay almost completely obscured by smog, saying: "I can't find China."
The city's municipal government said in a statement Sinopec's 10 million tonne-per-year Yanshan refinery, a Shougang Group steel product plant and a Cofco factory that makes instant noodles and crackers were among 500 companies it had ordered to limit output.
The statement also listed 700 companies that had been ordered to suspend operations altogether.
The national environmental watchdog was sending more than a dozen inspection teams to check that factories and heavy manufacturing plants were complying with the crackdown, it said.
The hazardous air underscores the challenge facing the world's second-largest economy as the government battles pollution caused by the coal-burning power industry and other heavy industry after decades of breakneck economic growth.
Smoggy Beijing, under alert, orders factories to shut or cut output | Reuters
That's exactly what Phoenix looks like.I would think rooftop solar on the building that will utilize the power would be better than a central one and many transmission lines. and you plug in your car or bike. I'm quite sure a river's banks could be landscaped to allow 'water wheels' that keep the paddles in the water longer and that helps them produce lots of power in a small package. That design would rise and fall with the river level.
Wouldn't they have the same level of pollution the whole year if that was the only factor?
This is LA.
Sat Dec 17, 2016
Beijing's city government ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital, including a major oil refinery run by state oil giant Sinopec, to shut or cut output on Saturday after authorities issued the highest possible air pollution alert.
On Friday, China's environmental watchdog issued a five-day warning about choking smog spreading across the north and ordered factories to shut, recommended residents stay indoors and curbed traffic and construction work.
Red alerts are issued when the air quality index (AQI), a measure of pollutants in the air, is forecast to break 200 for more than four days in succession, surpass 300 for more than two days or overshoot 500 for at least 24 hours.
The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre showed an air quality reading of 297 by Saturday afternoon as haze started to envelop the capital, after an earlier reading of around 120. Levels in the 301-500 band are considered hazardous to health.
Traffic on the city's roads was lower than usual as residents complied with limits on car use and many of the city's 22 million residents sat out the haze at home.
More than 40 cities have issued warnings, with 22 on red alert, including top steelmaking city Tangshan in Hebei province around Beijing, and Jinan in coal-rich Shandong province.
"I'll just take a rest and not go outside," said Wang Jianan, a 23-year-old Beijing resident and teaching assistant.
With Christmas just a week away, others resorted to dark humour to help cope with the latest episode of toxic air.
One Beijing resident posted a cartoon on WeChat, China's mobile messaging platform, showing Santa Claus on his slay almost completely obscured by smog, saying: "I can't find China."
The city's municipal government said in a statement Sinopec's 10 million tonne-per-year Yanshan refinery, a Shougang Group steel product plant and a Cofco factory that makes instant noodles and crackers were among 500 companies it had ordered to limit output.
The statement also listed 700 companies that had been ordered to suspend operations altogether.
The national environmental watchdog was sending more than a dozen inspection teams to check that factories and heavy manufacturing plants were complying with the crackdown, it said.
The hazardous air underscores the challenge facing the world's second-largest economy as the government battles pollution caused by the coal-burning power industry and other heavy industry after decades of breakneck economic growth.
Smoggy Beijing, under alert, orders factories to shut or cut output | Reuters
Where is mentalflake? Why is he not fighting this?
The "airpocalypse" is affecting 460 million people, with an estimated 200 million people living in areas experiencing hazardous levels of smog — 10 times above guidelines set by the World Health Organization, according to Greenpeace East Asia.
Beijing and 21 other Chinese cities are currently on red alert, the highest level in China's four-tier pollution warning system, according to China's Ministry of Environmental Protection. Hundreds of flights out of Beijing Capital International Airport were canceled, according to state media.
460 Million Chinese Residents Suffering From 'Airpocalypse' - ABC News
Beijing and 21 other Chinese cities are currently on red alert, the highest level in China's four-tier pollution warning system, according to China's Ministry of Environmental Protection. Hundreds of flights out of Beijing Capital International Airport were canceled, according to state media.
460 Million Chinese Residents Suffering From 'Airpocalypse' - ABC News
Takes a lot of coal fired plants to make the energy required to build windmills and solar panels.
It's only a pea-souper. London used to get them all the time. The 1952 Great Smog of London lasted from 5th to 9th December and killed 12,000 people. But it's hardly a big deal in the grand scheme of things. It's just part of life in an industrialising country like China.
And they have until 2030 to say they will need another 15 or so years to "catch up".
China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the country's pollution woes.
Anger has risen in the world's second-largest economy at the government's repeated failure to tackle land, water and air pollution, with large parts of northern China enveloped in dangerous smog in recent days.
"Tax revenue is an important economic means to promote environmental protection," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The tax rate will be 1.2 yuan ($0.17) per unit of atmospheric pollution, 1.4 yuan per unit of water pollution, 5 yuan per tonne of coal waste and 1,000 yuan per tonne of "hazardous waste".
Industrial noise polluters will also be levied 350 yuan per month if they exceed limits by 1-3 decibels, 700 yuan for 4-6 decibels and 11,200 yuan per month for 16 decibels and more.
The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
China has not previously imposed any specific environmental taxes, and the new levy will replace an earlier system of miscellaneous charges that are regarded as far too low to deter polluters.
Officials have repeatedly stressed that the new policy is not designed to increase the tax burden on enterprises.
"The core purpose (of the policy) isn't to increase taxes, but is to improve the system, and encourage enterprises to reduce emissions - the more they emit the more they will pay, and the less they emit the less they will pay," environment minister Chen Jining said earlier this year.
The details of the new law have been fiercely contested by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration and local governments, and has been subject to repeated delays.
Conflicts of interest have emerged as other departments worry about lost revenues once the previous system of emission discharge fees is abolished. Some government researchers have also argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases should be included in the plans.
Jia Kang of the Ministry of Finance's Institute of Fiscal Science complained this year that the environmental tax proposals were far too conservative, with the tax rate per tonne of sulphur dioxide still much cheaper than paying for the equipment required to stop it entering the atmosphere.
He suggested that, in order to avoid increasing the tax burden on firms, other business taxes should be cut and replaced by the environmental tax, which would give authorities a more powerful tool to force a firm to improve its environmental performance.
($1 = 6.9432 Chinese yuan renminbi)
China to levy new taxes in bid to strengthen pollution fight | Reuters
Anger has risen in the world's second-largest economy at the government's repeated failure to tackle land, water and air pollution, with large parts of northern China enveloped in dangerous smog in recent days.
"Tax revenue is an important economic means to promote environmental protection," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The tax rate will be 1.2 yuan ($0.17) per unit of atmospheric pollution, 1.4 yuan per unit of water pollution, 5 yuan per tonne of coal waste and 1,000 yuan per tonne of "hazardous waste".
Industrial noise polluters will also be levied 350 yuan per month if they exceed limits by 1-3 decibels, 700 yuan for 4-6 decibels and 11,200 yuan per month for 16 decibels and more.
The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2018.
China has not previously imposed any specific environmental taxes, and the new levy will replace an earlier system of miscellaneous charges that are regarded as far too low to deter polluters.
Officials have repeatedly stressed that the new policy is not designed to increase the tax burden on enterprises.
"The core purpose (of the policy) isn't to increase taxes, but is to improve the system, and encourage enterprises to reduce emissions - the more they emit the more they will pay, and the less they emit the less they will pay," environment minister Chen Jining said earlier this year.
The details of the new law have been fiercely contested by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration and local governments, and has been subject to repeated delays.
Conflicts of interest have emerged as other departments worry about lost revenues once the previous system of emission discharge fees is abolished. Some government researchers have also argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases should be included in the plans.
Jia Kang of the Ministry of Finance's Institute of Fiscal Science complained this year that the environmental tax proposals were far too conservative, with the tax rate per tonne of sulphur dioxide still much cheaper than paying for the equipment required to stop it entering the atmosphere.
He suggested that, in order to avoid increasing the tax burden on firms, other business taxes should be cut and replaced by the environmental tax, which would give authorities a more powerful tool to force a firm to improve its environmental performance.
($1 = 6.9432 Chinese yuan renminbi)
China to levy new taxes in bid to strengthen pollution fight | Reuters
China rings in the New Year... covered in smog and leading the way to a greener future!
China starts 2017 engulfed by smog, issues pollution alerts
http://www.yahoo.com/news/china-starts-2017-engulfed-smog-issues-pollution-alerts-083349988.html
China starts 2017 engulfed by smog, issues pollution alerts
http://www.yahoo.com/news/china-starts-2017-engulfed-smog-issues-pollution-alerts-083349988.html
China leading the way!
Quite possibly. Canada has actually exported bottled air to China and some people have actually paid for it. Bottled air!
