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electromagnetic interference
(redirected from Dirty power)

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Any electromagnetic disturbance that interrupts, obstructs, or otherwise degrades or limits the effective performance of electronics and electrical equipment. It can be induced intentionally, as in some forms of electronic warfare, or unintentionally, as a result of spurious emissions and responses, intermodulation products, and the like. Also called EMI.


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The rich countries do, or at least they pay for a lot of the difference, because it is they who created the conditions in which newly industrialising countries must install expensive clean power rather than the dirty power that the rich countries themselves used to climb the ladder long ago.
By encouraging the use of a waste product from dirty power plants, the EPA is enabling our addiction to coal.
In other words, green power will soon be the same price or even cheaper than dirty power.
 
 
 
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