O crescimento económico chinês, para lá de ter alçado a China à posição de segunda maior economia mundial e de maior emitente de gases de estufa em termos globais - (em termos per capita, continuam os EUA a liderar) - não iludiu a sua liderança política quanto à necessidade estratégica imperiosa de jogar na eficiência energética e sobre a necessidade estratégica imperiosa de aproveitar o potencial económico associado ao desenvolvimento tecnológico das energias renováveis, e à utilização, maciça, extensiva, destas.
A liderança política chinesa - apesar de todos os defeitos, e pecados congénitos do regime que a sustenta - tem a inteligência de recusar ser condicionada pela cegueira egoista e sem futuro dos interesses das indústrias fósseis - petrolíferas norte-americanas, países produtores - e isto, mesmo entrando em linha de conta a dependência da economia chinesa do carvão - e isso passa ao lado de uma certa opinião pública que não sabe, não quer saber, e despreza como bizarria ecológica, ou desvio esquerdizante, tudo o que se relaciona com ambiente, aquecimento global, etc., por despeito ideológico, e/ou sombranceria pessoal e/ou iliteracia científica.
Green Giant: Beijing’s crash program for clean energy. « Climate Progress: "“China is going to eat our lunch and take our jobs on clean energy — an industry that we largely invented — and they are going to do it with a managed economy we don’t have and don’t want,” as I’ve said. Our only chance of matching them is to pass the bipartisan climate and clean energy bill.
Two new articles underscore America’s challenge. The first is a short Reuters piece on China’s new renewables law, and the second is a long New Yorker piece. Reuters reported Sunday:
A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal-dependent China.
The amendment to the 2006 renewable energy law was adopted on Saturday by the standing committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, the Xinhua news agency said.
The amendment also gives authority to the State Council energy department, together with the State Council finance department and the state power authority, to “determine the proportion of renewable energy power generation to the overall generating capacity for a certain period.”"
China’s 863 Program, a crash program for clean energy : The New Yorker: "Then, in 2001, Chinese officials abruptly expanded one program in particular: energy technology. The reasons were clear. Once the largest oil exporter in East Asia, China was now adding more than two thousand cars a day and importing millions of barrels; its energy security hinged on a flotilla of tankers stretched across distant seas. Meanwhile, China was getting nearly eighty per cent of its electricity from coal, which was rendering the air in much of the country unbreathable and hastening climate changes that could undermine China’s future stability. Rising sea levels were on pace to create more refugees in China than in any other country, even Bangladesh. In 2006, Chinese leaders redoubled their commitment to new energy technology; they boosted funding for research and set targets for installing wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric dams, and other renewable sources of energy that were higher than goals in the United States. China doubled its wind-power capacity that year, then doubled it again the next year, and the year after. The country had virtually no solar industry in 2003; five years later, it was manufacturing more solar cells than any other country, winning customers from foreign companies that had invented the technology in the first place.
As President Hu Jintao, a political heir of Deng Xiaoping, put it in October of this year, China must “seize preëmptive opportunities in the new round of the global energy revolution.”"
China to be 3rd biggest wind power producer: "China is set to become the world's third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom. The country's installed wind power capacity will reach 20 gigawatts this year,[...] That will lift China to surpass Spain and become the world's third biggest wind power producer after the United States and Germany, the report said. The United States had 25.2 gigawatts in installed capacity of wind power in 2008, or 20.8 percent of the world's total, compared with China's capacity of 12.2 gigawatts, [...]."
China’s 863 Program, a crash program for clean energy : The New Yorker: "Then, in 2001, Chinese officials abruptly expanded one program in particular: energy technology. The reasons were clear. Once the largest oil exporter in East Asia, China was now adding more than two thousand cars a day and importing millions of barrels; its energy security hinged on a flotilla of tankers stretched across distant seas. Meanwhile, China was getting nearly eighty per cent of its electricity from coal, which was rendering the air in much of the country unbreathable and hastening climate changes that could undermine China’s future stability. Rising sea levels were on pace to create more refugees in China than in any other country, even Bangladesh. In 2006, Chinese leaders redoubled their commitment to new energy technology; they boosted funding for research and set targets for installing wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric dams, and other renewable sources of energy that were higher than goals in the United States. China doubled its wind-power capacity that year, then doubled it again the next year, and the year after. The country had virtually no solar industry in 2003; five years later, it was manufacturing more solar cells than any other country, winning customers from foreign companies that had invented the technology in the first place.
As President Hu Jintao, a political heir of Deng Xiaoping, put it in October of this year, China must “seize preëmptive opportunities in the new round of the global energy revolution.”"
China to be 3rd biggest wind power producer: "China is set to become the world's third largest wind power producer in 2009, state media reported, as the Asian giant seeks various ways to expand energy supply to power its economic boom. The country's installed wind power capacity will reach 20 gigawatts this year,[...] That will lift China to surpass Spain and become the world's third biggest wind power producer after the United States and Germany, the report said. The United States had 25.2 gigawatts in installed capacity of wind power in 2008, or 20.8 percent of the world's total, compared with China's capacity of 12.2 gigawatts, [...]."
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