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   DanielMittler Posted 8:32 pm
   01 Nov 2007

   China's energy revolution

   China's energy revolution is very doable!
   Have a look at this scenario, for example:
   http://www.energyblueprint.info/china.0.html
   On wind, there is a big wind conference happening in Shanghai just now. And here is a report on the impressive wind potential:
   http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/press/reports/wind-pow ...

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   Jo2 Posted 9:40 pm
   01 Nov 2007

   What can we do to nudge China towards renewables?

   What can an American consumer do to encourage the development of wind and solar in China, and discourage coal?

   What are the organizations doing good work on this that we could donate to, or good projects that American consumers could support (possibly as offsets)?

   I'm one US enviro who knows that China and India's coal power plants are a huge threat to the climate, but am not clear what I personally could do about it.
   

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   WWAGD?! Posted 1:28 pm
   06 Dec 2007

   Hunan Security

   
   Those population projections sound a bit sketchy.  The figures I've seen project about 1 billion for all of Asia including China, by 2020.

   But that's not enough to halt a long term population decline by the end of the century.   1/3 of China's population is already past retirement and will of course start to be deceased by 2020.   The middle third will be following them.

   Another thing is that we have to think really long term.   Anyone who can't see that by 2030 we'll be achieving realistic fusion is off track.   All of these things are stopgap until that point.   Its better if China gets its infrastructure in place and at that point we can swap in clean units in place of the coal...just using coal as a "bootstrap".

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