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Most polluting power stations

This isn't really a list of the most polluting power stations, but the ones emitting the most carbon dioxide. There's some debate as to if CO₂ should really be considered a pollutant... I mean, I spend most of my time emitting it. I suggest moving this to List of power stations emitting the most carbon dioxide, which is a more accurate name. If no one objects, I'll do this in a few days. — PyTom 13:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, though it should probably be something like 'list of most carbon intensive power stations', or something like that, as it lists tons per watt hour, not overall emissions.

This is probably a fairly pointless list is it includes, for example, Cockenzie power station which is run as a 'marginal station', operating only at peak times. So although it emits lots of carbon per kilowatt hour, its overall emissions are not great. - Crosbiesmith (talk) 19:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to 'List of least carbon efficient power stations' - Crosbiesmith (talk) 16:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, that probably won't do, since the article is based on the WWF report, it only counts power station in "The industrialized world", so the list doesn't include developing or undeveloped countries. The current title isn't accurate. Nailedtooth (talk) 05:21, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WWF list

The WWF list clearly state it's only considering 30 countries so I renamed the title of that table appropriately. This of course also means we have a Europe list and a 30 industrialised countries list but no more inclusive list. However this isn't particularly surprising since it's likely figures are rather unclear or unpublished for some countries. In any case, the Kyoto protocol only applies to developed countries Nil Einne (talk) 15:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger

The merger was proposed by Jklamo on 8th August 2010. I too support the merge from Dirty thirty (WWF) to this article. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 12:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator. Jklamo.
Support: Create a section as "WWF Dirty Thirty" within this list. And redirect that article to this. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 12:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest list absolute emissions and rename

As explained at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1

OK?

Chidgk1 (talk) 18:32, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DenkMit and anyone. Not sure Climate trace will tell us carbon efficiency. Whereas it will give us up to date totals for large plants. So should this article list by largest emitters in most recent years. Chidgk1 (talk) 05:41, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to create a new list with absolute emissions, but keep the current list with a current scope.--Jklamo (talk) 10:15, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

But don't you think the least carbon efficient are the small lignite plants for which Climate TRACE has no data? Where would the data for this list come from? Chidgk1 (talk) 13:24, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Balbina Dam

DenkMit Please could you explain why you are repeatedly deleting the sentence I wrote about the Balbina Dam Chidgk1 (talk) 14:53, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chidgk1 Because as you've been told my myself and others, it's completely irrelevant to this page. Your comment is badly sourced ('might be') and doesn't make sense being on here. You've already been offered advice about what to do above - please take it... (talk)