[Stoves] Offopic News: Soot pollution in China - not from stoves

[Nikhil Desai]

If all pollution is global, and all deaths worldwide short of 86 years are
to be allocated to different sources of pollution, all sources of pollution
must count.

$/DALY for "improved stoves" must be compared with $/DALY from reduction in
diesel soot or, in this instance, ambient soot in these Chinese villages.

I could set up a model to show that the emergence of China and India as
major exporters - and associated sharp growth in modern coal power,
shutting down of old coal power stations and other boilers - gave health
benefits to the rich everywhere but screwed the poor everywhere.

Nikhil

IN YOUR PHONE, IN THEIR AIR
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/graphite-mining-pollution-in-china/>
 -A trace of graphite is in consumer tech. In these Chinese villages, it’s
everywhere., Washington Post 3 October 2016

While U.S. consumers may seem uninvolved in — and untouched by — the
Chinese pollution, the truth is more complicated.

The U.S. demand for cheap goods helps keep the Chinese factories going.
More than a quarter of the emissions of two key pollutants in China —
sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — arose from the production of goods for
export, according to research published
<http://www.pnas.org/content/111/5/1736.abstract> in 2014 in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The largest share of
exports goes to the United States.

Moreover, the same researchers found that some of the pollution in China
reaches the United States — the air pollution drifts across the ocean and
raises ozone levels in the western part of the country, according to the
study...

Today, the best known “gigafactory” for electric-car batteries is the one
being built by Tesla in the Nevada desert — a plant the company says will
produce 500,000 electric-car batteries annually. But it’s just one of many.
About a dozen other battery gigafactories are being planned around the
world.
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