Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
I viscerally hate this title, because the top 5% of power plants probably also account for >50% of electrical generation, and the entire exercise is dominated by how small of a plant counts for the statistics. If all the portable generators sitting unused in people's garages counted, I bet that 0.1% of "power plants" would be responsible for 99% of emissions, which would make a great headline but still wouldn't tell you anything meaningful about the world.I would love to know about how efficiency varies with plant size (are bigger plants more efficient?) but this study is _mostly_ just stating that bigger power plants produce more emissions in absolute terms, which should be obvious to pretty much anyone.