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Friday, March 18, 2011

health protections from air pollution since passage of Clean Air Act version 2 in Malaysia?

Why should regulator impose more stricter standard for Malaysia Coal power plant operators before building new increase capacity by burning fossil fuel at

except from:

Prime Minister, Najib Razak tables RM 230 bil 10th Malaysia Plan - TheStar (June 10, 2010).

Under 52 high-impact projects have been identified for implementation which "Second: Two coal electricity generation plants at an estimated cost of RM 10 bil.",

Hazardousness material exhaled by Malaysian (location as table below: based on US EPA data) :

"In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as 17,000 premature deaths and 11,000 heart attacks a year. The new proposed standards would also provide particular health benefits for children, preventing 120,000 cases of childhood asthma symptoms and about 11,000 fewer cases of acute bronchitis among children each year. The proposed standards would also avert more than 12,000 emergency room visits and hospital admissions and 850,000 fewer days of work missed due to illness."

Economic Benefit Analysis:

"The proposed standards also ensure that public health and economic benefits far outweigh costs of implementation. EPA estimates that for every dollar spent to reduce pollution from power plants, the American public and American businesses will see up to $13 in health and economic benefits. The total health and economic benefits of this standard are estimated to be as much as $140 billion annually."

via EPA, 03/16/2011

**List of coal-fired plants in Malaysia**
Plant	State	Coord.	MW	Type	Owner/operator
Jimah Power Station	Negri Sembilan at Lukut	2°35′11″N101°43′21″E	1,400	Thermal (2 ST)	Jimah Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Manjung Power Station	Perak at Manjung	4°9′44″N100°38′48″E	2,295	Thermal (3 ST)	TNB Janamanjung Sdn Bhd
PPLS Power Generation Plant	Sarawak in Kuching		110	Thermal (2 units)	PPLS Power Generation, a subsidiary of Sarawak Energy Berhad
Sejingkat Power Corporation Plant	Sarawak at Kuching		100	Thermal	Sejingkat Power Corporation Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary ofSarawak Energy Berhad
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Power Station	Selangor at Kapar	3°7′1″N101°19′1″E	2,420	Thermal (6 ST), open cycle (2 GT), natural gas and coal with oil backup	Kapar Energy Ventures Sdn Bhd
Tanjung Bin Power Station	Johor at Pontian	1°20′3″N103°32′55″E	2,100	Thermal (3 ST)	Tanjong Bin Power Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malakoff

Note: ST - Steam Turbine unit(s).

Source: Wikipedia

What do you think?!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Innovation Day @ FRIM

I attend a Innovation day at Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) from my house at Bukit Mahkota. From Google Maps, it shows that it take more than 75 minute to arrive, but as biker; 45 minute flat. I was invited by my fellow friends, Inventor Bugs Tan. He wrote about it at his blog ;)

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Before the event, i visit the bookstore - wow... so much knowledge is store inside it. Thing about forest research, diversity, climate change effect and action toward it. I hope FRIM can publish as creative common material, we can share the knowledge with the world.

The event start with opening from chief director of FRIM emphasize on packaging an innovation and climate change. I can see the whole staff in the auditorium really passion about their work and LOVE the Tree so much. He also mention some of his staff still at COP15 (http://www.facebook.com/cop15, http://en.cop15.dk/ ), participating in one most significant event in human history in order to battle climate change.

FRIM and it related partner showcase some amazing innovation from palm trunk engineered floor to tissue culture clonnning. I wish congratulation to the respected winners.

My hope is FRIM can be more focus on:
1) fungi research like Paul Stamets , termite guts (bio- enzyme), spiders and all microorganisme living in our forest toward our benefits.

2) black earth
3) tree species with rapid growth accelerator to sequester more CO2 climate change research and how to combat climate change.

Mastering DNA is key for above strategic move. don't forget to protect your IP worldwide and do valuation.

All the best to FRIM. oh... dont forget to join Friends of FRIM to adopt tree.

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Few wish before sign-off:

Do we have hero like Willie Smits for reforestation of Malaysia forest ? Malaysian need to know their heroes.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

Image: Courtesy The Vulcan Project. The units are log(million metric tons/year/100 square km.), so sayeth our team of commenters. The data is drawn from 2002 via Wired Science 2008.

From: Google Tech Talks, December 16, 2008

ABSTRACT

The Vulcan Project has estimated US fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the scale of individual factories, powerplants, roadways and cities. It has placed the inventory on a common 10 km x10 km grid at the hourly timescale for the year 2002. In addition to improvement in space and time resolution, Vulcan is quantified at the level of fuel type, economic sub-sector, and county/state identification. Vulcan is now estimating other years and including Canada and Mexico in its spatial domain.

Two development paths are planned: performing this effort across the planet at scales of ~ 100 km2 and downscaling the Vulcan effort within the US domain to all emitting sources with full energy demand-driven modeling in near realtime (codename: Hestia)

Slides for this talk are available click here:

http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/Google.pptx

Speaker: Dr. Kevin Gurney

Dr Gurney is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and an Associate Director at Purdue Climate Change Research Center. He has participated in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change) and sits on the steering committee of the Global Carbon Project. He works on simulation of the global carbon cycle, deforestation, and climate change policy.

Source: How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

1. Japan launch satelite for GHG.
2. Nasa launch CO2 satelite tracker.

My Question:

1. When Malaysia government going to measure it own carbon print. To participate in carbon economy - we need to design, measure, analysis and improve the our strength and weakness.
2. What is MOSTI and EPU status and measure (implementation) on this issue?

Friday, January 16, 2009

Energy Independence: On-Site Fuel Cell Systems Operating on Biofuels

Energy Independence: On-Site Fuel Cell Systems Operating on Biofuels - 28:00 - Jun 3, 2008 by Benson P. Lee, President and CEO, Technology Management, Inc.

Image via Wikipedia

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