According to Nikkei Newspaper of 14 Sept 2010 and other newspaper reports, Tokyo Electric announced its business plan to triple electricity production in India, China, and other Asian countries within 10 years "mainly based on caloric power plants".
At the same time for domestic Japan, Tokyo Electric plans to increase "CO2 neutral" electricity to 50% of output by increasing nuclear power plants. To create need for this electricity, they declared to create incentives to newly electrify areas like room heating or domestic hot water which use little electricity in Japan now. Within ten years, the goal for this new electrification is 30 Terawatthours (30.000.000.000 kWh) http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/100914/bsb1009140504005-n1.htm (2010-09-14) The same Nikkei Newspaper of 2010/09/14 and others report that Mitsui Bussan, C. Itoh and other japanese trading companies announced to bid for development right of coal mines in Mongolia, estimated to become the largest coal mine in the world. C Itoh plans to double its coal output by 2015 to 22 million tons. http://www.bloomberg.co.jp/apps/news?pid=90920010&sid=aZpwoGi4kV4I I wanted to add a few comments here, but came to think it is not really needed. Oskar Bartenstein http://www.ecolifelab.com _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
