Why China is Winning the Clean Energy Race (axios.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. politicians have been warning for years that America couldn't let China win the clean energy race. That's exactly what has happened, with the trends most stark in electric cars, solar and nuclear energy. Why it matters: Building for the last decade, these trends have accelerated in the last couple of years. Politicians and business leaders said America's dominance in this space would bring jobs to the U.S. and security to our clean-energy resources, and now both of those goals are at risk. Why China is doing this: It needs to literally energize its 1.4 billion people, both how they travel and how they power their homes. Its leadership feels compelled to do it in a cleaner way than the U.S. did. Air pollution is at dangerously high levels across many of China's cities. People are seeing and feeling health repercussions of China's dependence on fossil fuel-fired cars and power plants in an acute way. Traditional air pollution, not climate change, is a big driver.

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Re:Political Party explains this

[Anonymous Coward]

So another fucking asshole Slashdot poster wants a one party system to jam his ideas down others peoples throats because he has a hard on for one political party over another.

Fuck. You. Communist. Slave.

Re:Interesting definition of "leading clean energy

[AmiMoJo]

They aren't building 700 coal plants. There were plans for to to 700, but they have largely stopped approving them now so most won't ever get started.

http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...
https://unearthed.greenpeace.o...

Similarly all new nuclear approvals were stopped in 2011 after Fukushima. The only ones being built were approved before then.