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Chinese green? --or camouflage?
The Long View:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/21/091221fa_fact_osnos
| Quote: | On March 3, 1986, four of China’s top weapons scientists—each a veteran of the missile and space programs—sent a private letter to Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the country. Their letter was a warning: Decades of relentless focus on militarization had crippled the country’s civilian scientific establishment; China must join the world’s xin jishu geming, the “new technological revolution,” they said, or it would be left behind. They called for an élite project devoted to technology ranging from biotech to space research. Deng agreed, and scribbled on the letter, “Action must be taken on this now.” This was China’s “Sputnik moment,” and the project was code-named the 863 Program, for the year and month of its birth.
In the years that followed, the government pumped billions of dollars into labs and universities and enterprises, on projects ranging from cloning to underwater robots. Then, in 2001, Chinese officials abruptly expanded one program in particular: energy technology. The reasons were clear. Once the largest oil exporter in East Asia, China was now adding more than two thousand cars a day and importing millions of barrels; its energy security hinged on a flotilla of tankers stretched across distant seas. Meanwhile, China was getting nearly eighty per cent of its electricity from coal, which was rendering the air in much of the country unbreathable and hastening climate changes that could undermine China’s future stability. Rising sea levels were on pace to create more refugees in China than in any other country, even Bangladesh.
In 2006, Chinese leaders redoubled their commitment to new energy technology; they boosted funding for research and set targets for installing wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric dams, and other renewable sources of energy that were higher than goals in the United States. China doubled its wind-power capacity that year, then doubled it again the next year, and the year after. The country had virtually no solar industry in 2003; five years later, it was manufacturing more solar cells than any other country, winning customers from foreign companies that had invented the technology in the first place. As President Hu Jintao, a political heir of Deng Xiaoping, put it in October of this year, China must “seize preëmptive opportunities in the new round of the global energy revolution.”
A China born again green can be hard to imagine, especially for people who live here.... |
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The effluent has floated to the top--the very top. For the first time China acknowledges its role in the cleanup--and takes its place in the new global power game:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aenpm99Ba8Pc
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China is Balking at the cost and effectiveness of extracting greenhouse gases from coal plants and storing them underground. Said it can achieve larger emissions cuts by improving efficiency of buildings and vehicles and
investing in alternative power.
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Meanwhile "the otherside" has developed their own view of this dichotomy for which $147 crude, and not poisoned toys, triggered last summer.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2008/db20081126_315336.htm
| Quote: | Trouble is, China will not be able to improve its quality problem overnight. It will require a long-term transformation of China's regulatory bureaucracy, legal system, and management practices. And Beijing has been promising to control intellectual-property theft for decades, with unimpressive results. If China doesn't start making progress fast, the current slump in export manufacturing (BusinessWeek, 3/27/0 could be the beginning of a longer-term pullback. |
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China has go toward more and more better on energy use.I think so.
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