China Is Winning Global Race To Make Clean Energy

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world's largest maker of wind turbines, has leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels, and is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants. These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China."

Comments

Re:America needs to wake up

[DigiShaman]

How about we tell you to take your "progressive taxation" and shove it straight up your ass!

Unless your mentally/physically debilitated, get off your ass and GET A JOB! Why in the hell should our income subsidized yours?

Re:Inaccurate comparison

[hoggoth]

> The Chinese are excellent businessmen, and that isn't said as an insult. I admire their ability to think in terms of generations of sustainable output and make business decisions accordingly.

What I admire is their ability to feed Malamine to their babies to make a few yuan. Let's see how much good their economic expansion does them when they are the most sickly people on Earth. I'll stick with my EPA protections and do without this years latest consumer electronics, thank you.