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China's immoral energy policy: Part I
China's coal policy is breathtaking (literally) |
Joseph Romm |
01 Nov 2007 |
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| Yes, America's climate policy is immoral. But that doesn't make China's rapacious coal-plant building moral. The N.Y. Times has published the sobering numbers, which bear repeating: The country built 114,000 megawatts of fossil-fuel-based generating capacity last year alone, almost all coal-fired, and is on course to complete 95,000 megawatts more this year. For comparison, Britain has 75,000 megawatts in operation, built over a span of decades. China is now t ... |
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| Topics: renewable energy, nuclear power, coal, politics, energy, China (all these topics) |
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