On 23 April 2014 15:09, 'Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>' via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > > >>Understood, but China is not pursuing a policy of eliminating AGW, but > reducing smog in its cities. Its not a kumbaya moment now for anything > nowbin east asia as you hsve noticed, regarding china. The best way then to > reduce carbon emissions is to develop clean energy generators, that can be > installed quickly, reliably, abundantly, and china will follow, because it > will be cleaner then coal, and quicker and cheaper thsn nukes. But it must > be available to buy or steal from us, so if the chinese do this, it will > help us never the less. > > And yet... APAC countries are forecast to install more than 23 gigawatts > (GW) of solar PV in 2014, which is around half of the expected world total > for new installed capacity for this year and is a 35% annual growth over > last year's total for the APAC region. Almost all of this new capacity > (95%) is getting installed in just five (APAC) countries: China, Japan, > India, Australia, and Thailand. The Chinese Bureau of Energy recently > announced an aggressive target of 12 GW for 2014, with 8 GW to be installed > on rooftops, and the remaining 4 GW located on the ground. It has set > itself a goal of having 35 gigawatts of installed solar power capacity by > the end of 2015. This is an aggressive move to transition away from a > carbon based energy towards a system increasingly based off of harvesting > the natural and FREE solar flux. Again I think you are a little confused on > the facts here. This is not just a smog reduction program -- though it will > certainly contribute to reducing smog -- this is moving aggressively on a > large scale towards solar power. China is very rapidly overtaking the US -- > which already lags behind Germany and Italy -- in terms of its installed > solar PV base. > What most Americans and also Europeans are not aware of is that China also > has (in 2012) an installed base of 250GW of rooftop solar water heaters, > and leads the world in solar hot water heating by a huge margin. Americans > and Europeans mostly burn natural gas to heat their water. Following? Or is > that actually leading? The next largest country is Germany with about 30GW, > followed by Italy with about 20GW (nice but not in the same league as > China's 250GW) The US by comparison has less than 5 GW. > Oh and by the way more than 80% of PV modules produced globally will be > made in Asia -- lead again by China. > Is this what you meant by a smog reduction program? > > You're engaged in a smog reduction programme yourself! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
