je.st
news
Tag: beijing
GE Selected To Reduce Emissions, Boost Efficiency At Beijing Power Plant
2015-07-06 02:41:50| pollutiononline Home Page
Soon after being chosen as the site for the 2008 Olympics, China began building the infrastructure to power the games
Tags: power
selected
reduce
plant
Bluer skies? Beijing picks up pace in cutting dependency on coal
2015-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Blue skies in Beijing were a welcome surprise this week for the residents of Gaobeidian, a migrant neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. Gaobeidian sits near the smokestacks and cooling towers of an 845-megawatt power plant, the last coal-fired plant operating in the Chinese capital. Billowing smoke forms a hazy backdrop as children play and women hang clothes out to dry. This kind of weather is rare in Beijing, says Cheng Hui, a housewife with two sons under four. Shes happy to hear that...
Tags: cutting
pace
picks
beijing
Beijing growing explosively, impacting weather and climate
2015-06-29 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study by scientists using data from NASA's QuikScat satellite has demonstrated a novel technique to quantify urban growth based on observed changes in physical infrastructure. The researchers used the technique to study the rapid urban growth in Beijing, China, finding that its physical area quadrupled between 2000 and 2009. A team led by Mark Jacobson of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, used data from QuikScat...
Tags: growing
weather
climate
beijing
Beijing faces uphill battle to spin off oil and gas assets
2015-05-31 16:41:03| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The idea of spinning off the state giants' pipeline assets into one or more independent companies had been floated in late 2013. Photo: Reuters The proposed restructuring and spin-offs of the mainland's oil and gas pipeline assets is a good long-term policy but executing it will be an uphill battle, according to analysts.
Moscow and Beijing metros partner to offer better metro services
2015-05-19 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Moscow and Beijing metros have signed an agreement on cooperation and partnership to improve the quality of passenger service in the regions.
Tags: services
offer
partner
metro
Sites : [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] next »