Home Pollution from Energy Guang Ming Daily (2001-04-02)

The alarm of heat pollution

( Abstract )

People paid attention to the sound, water and air pollutions, but did not care about another important heat pollution.

The heat pollution or the waste heat environmental pollution is emitted by the modern industrial production and the domestic life. The heat pollution can pollute both the air and the water. The heat and nuclear power stations, steel and iron works, the petroleum, chemical and papermaking plants are the sources to produce a large quantity of waste heat...

Heat pollution is firstly harmed the aquatic biology. The increase of water temperature reduces the oxygen in the water and much aquatic biology had problem in growth and died under the role of heat effect. That affects the balance of the environment and ecology...

Experts estimate that according to the present energy consumption speed the earth will go up 0.1¡æ¡«0.26¡æ every ten years and 1.0¡æ to 2.6¡æ after a century...

Scientists appeal for the draft of environmental heat pollution control standard as soon as possible. Effective measures will be adopted for preventing and controlling the heat pollution.



In other subjects: Air Pollution: Global Warming
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