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The Eastern Atmosphere (1993)
| Auteur | J.Salay |
| Datum | 1993 |
| Classificatie | 6.01.2.15/08 (KE & BROEIKAS - ALGEMEEN KLIMAAT & CO2 REDUCTIE) |
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Uit de publicatie:
The Eastern Atmosphere When speaking about air pollution in eastern Europe, attention inevitably fixes on the main pollutant, sulphur dioxide. Here the three great culprits have been East Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Moreover most of the emissions come from an area known as the Black Triangle, where the three countries meet, which is not much larger than Rhode Island, America's smallest state. In the late eighties some 7 million tons of sulphur dioxide were being poured out every year from this part of Europe. That was more than all the emissions from Britain, France, and West- Germany put together. The total emissions from eastern Europe, including Hungary, were then about double this amount. When calculated according to land area and population, the differences between eastern and western Europe appear even greater, as can be seen from the charts. The figures represent estimates, some of which have turned out to be too low. There is in any case no doubt but that the eastern European countries are the greatest emitters of sulphur dioxide in Europe. The reason is that coal, often of poor quality, is their principal source of energy. They have little in the way of oil and natural gas, only Hungary producing oil on any scale. That country is also the only one of the four in eastern Europe that derives any appreciable proportion of its energy from nuclear plants. And the only big source of hydroelectric power is to be found in Slovakia' s questionable diversion of the River Danube.
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