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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."
The US will corner the market once fusion gets perfected in 10 or so years... (seriously! Quite laughing! I'm prognosticating accurately!)
Well yes, while that is true, we may ultimately have to stop buying cheap plastic crap from them as a consequence, to even things out.
I'll never give up my melamine-laced White Rabbit Candy, you insensitive clod!!!
(Lawsuit avoidance disclaimer: they've taken the melamine out now. I hope.)
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
And if they do something good just copy it and steal the IP.
And who are to blame for that? =P
Slartibartfast?
Sigh...How do you explain Denmark's success in not only using but also exporting windmills? It gets harder to explain when you consider Denmark's equivalent of the EPA has a few more teeth than the US version.
I think... and I admit I'm guessing here without having done any research... but I think that windmills aren't the same thing as solar panels.
I understand I could be mistaken, and please correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe we could put solar panels on our windmills so we could generate green energy while generating green energy.
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