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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."
I suprised that this suprises some people. China has been securing large parts of the world's supply of rare earth elements / tantalum for quite some time. This should not really be news to anyone who has been paying attention.
Maybe this would be a good time to re-arm Japan. They've always been good at taking down China when they've gotten too big for their britches...
There's a simple solution for not being able to satisfy out energy requirements: cut down on the energy usage!
My two step program:
(1) Global per-person cap on non-sustainable energy use.
(2) Decrease the amount of population by creating global birth control laws (and enforce them!)
For some reason, both of these seem to scare the s**t out of people (W00t, I'd have to change the way I live?!) but really there's not much more that can be done.
Even if we'd solve the renewable energy thing with fusion power, the current population density is unsustainable.
What in the world are you blathering about? ,Income tax and increased social dependence on government since their inception were a baaaaaad idea. We haven't been the wealthy independent citizens in charge of our own outcome either.
The people high in the "party" will get rich.
The poor in China will stay poor and keep being a labor "commodity".
Nothing on their side of the pond really will change.
If wind power popularizes well enough, the U.S. may end up exporters of energy via grid.
Loads of the out of work labor "commodity" on our side of the pond will be happy to produce the same turbines and solar panels.
Seems like you have a young college students view of world economy. How cute and Democratically correct!
China holds a big chunk of our national debt. It's not only elders the next generation gets to pay for.
This is a very good example of why Social Security
Careful, your government approved education is a dead giveaway. Look around there aren't any more Uber rich here than in China. Probably a lot less considering who holds the notes. Clue up. Jeez!
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
Yes Americans need to wake up: To the fact that all of these misfortunes are the product of an arrogant trade adjenda that says TAX AMERICANS FIRST and let everyone else play free of taxes. This folks is a classic trade war. In a trade war one party is taxed out of the market to the preference of others who do not pay taxes. The only odd thing here is that Americans are TAXED out of their own market and the world market by the US Government. With the current budget there is no prospect of this getting any better unless the USA adopts the FairTax. (www.fairtax.org) The US Trade policy has Congress at war against its own citizens. Fix this and stories like this will rapidly fade into the dust of history.
Orwell was a prophet, a large chunk of the US is already brainwashed. I suppose the "socialist agenda's" your talking about include, the individual's right to clean air and water and the individual's right to get sick without facing bankruptcy.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.