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I think the second was the only really valid educational link: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-ecological-civilization-2532760301.html It is also full of half truths which should parsed a bit. The problem with ecowatch is that it tends to report only on renewable expansion in different countries and "successes". This gives it's own pro-renewable anti-nuclear and anti-coal readers a false picture of China (not to mentioned other countries). It does a general disservice to their own constituents. For instance it reguarly reports on the German solar/wind effort and ignores the massive increase in natural gas turbines and the fact that to day, the Germans have shut virtually no coal plants (and then went ahead and built the largest coal plants in Europe just 2 years ago, outside Cologne). Failure at balanced reporting. It is true what the article noted: 150 coal plants have have been canceled there. Certainly a victory by any one's standards. And they have also shuttered 100s of older dirtier plans as well. But the Chinese are *still* expanding their use of coal. The increase has declined but growth for them is still on the horizon. Also, China is the largest builder of coal plants in the world, with *700* planned world wide by Chinese companies. NOT good. According to this article: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-firms-to-build-700-coal-plants here are around 336,000MWs of coal plants being proposed and approved with China getting the bulk of them. I should point out that *new* Chinese coal plants are least from the non-GHG emissions POV (2.5ppm particulate, carbon monoxide, benzenes, etc) are much lower than American coal plants. Still...not good. Moreover...despite the vast increase in solar capacity...the actual capacity (meaning what it does produce, not what it can produce) still remains under 20% (as opposed to hydro, coal, natural gas and nuclear plants which can run over 90%). China is also expanding other forms of energy: hydro (which has been discussed here), natural gas and nuclear energy. NG is a dangerous fossil fuel that outputs vast amounts of GHG emissions. Hyrdo and nuclear, not so much. So ecowatch readers will come away from the article believing that China is "going green". In fact it is expanding the above forms of energy generation as fast as possible, including, of course, nuclear energy. David _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
