Energy Industry Polution - Despair and Optimism

Virtonomics - Lien Ledger

Do you ever feel like this?

That's the face an environmentalist makes when thinking about pollution from the energy industry.


The chart below provides for more indigestion.

Well, it's not all bad news.

Energy-related carbon dioxide is going down steadily.


And regarding clean energy wind power...

...the two biggest polluters in the world are stepping up.


What about renewable energy?

Very promising!


And our friend Leonardo DiCaprio thinks the U.N. Climate Conference in Paris was a step in the right direction abcnews.

All of this brings us to an important question.  Is the situation the same in the Virtonomics Lien virtual realm?  Is it doomsday, or is there a brighter side?

Let's look at the data below.

Per Lien ecologists, the level of safety recommended is 1.40 (updated once in a virto-year depending on overall ecological situation).

The actual level of ecological safety is up to 4.60, well above the "danger level" of 1.40.  Additionally, the linear trend lines show that there is a correlation between increasing privatization of power plants and increasing ecological safety of power plants.  This most likely means that incentives are aligned correctly.

Lien has 3 types of power plants.  They are listed below:

Coal power plant power plants that consumes coal.
    Fuel oil power plant Fuel oil is a consumable. It has a small environmental benefit compared to coal powered plants.

    Incinerator A type of power plant without consumables that uses garbage collected from cities.  Accordingly, the stations of this type in a large part are helping the city to solve the problem of garbage disposal. But it has very high operating costs and reduced environmental friendliness.












There are some public works projects that contribute to a virtual green world as well.  A few examples:

Construction and modernization of city treatment facilities will allow to lower significantly the level of environmental problems connected with the industrial drains. The project increases popularity of the mayor. Construction and modernization of city treatment facilities will allow to lower significantly the level of environmental problems connected with the industrial drains. The project increases popularity of the mayor.

The system of ecological monitoring will allow to lower significantly the level of ecological problems connected with atmospheric emission from power plants of the city. However, the city will refuse to purchase the electric power from those power plants of a city grid, which level of ecological safety (technological level multiplied by efficiency) is less than the value recommended by ecologists. The current recommendations of ecologists can be found on the "Tariffs for the electric power" tab of the city management pages. The project increases popularity of the mayor.

The municipality will allocate funds for improvement of garbage utilization systems, for modernization and revitalization of city dumps. It will allow to lower significantly the level of ecological problems connected with garbage. The project increases popularity of the mayor.

Construction of a new traffic intersection will allow to cut down by 50% the transportation expenses of the enterprises in the city (products delivery within this city) and will lower the level of the environmental problems connected with motor transport. The project increases popularity of the mayor.

Creation of ecological police will allow to lower level of the environmental problems connected with garbage, motor transport and industrial drains, in all cities of the region. However, expenses of the region on ecology will increase by 15%. Besides, for ecological needs all additional subsidies will be redirected to municipal budgets of the problematic cities, if those are provided by the region budget.

So it is not all doom and gloom in real life or in the Virtonomics Lien realm.  But we do need to stay vigilant and stay the course if we want to save our planet!