Notícias (potencialmente) boas, mas que outros qualificam

Seria muito bom uma corrida (estilo do que se passou entre a URSS e os EUA, no espaço, nos anos 60) entre os EUA e a China no domínio das renováveis e da eficiência energética:

• Smart Grid Arms Race? U.S., China Face Very Different Challenges | SolveClimate.com: "Talking about a green revolution as a competition between China and the U.S. is like putting two teams on the same field that play different games. Yet, this has been the popular spin on news that China’s spending on smart grid technology will exceed that of the U.S. by $200 million. It has also been the spin on high-speed rail and the so-called 'clean tech arms race.'"

As notícias (potencialmente) boas...:

• Sustentabilidade é Acção: Bill Gates e a energia nuclear "limpa": "Bill Gates esteve no mês passado a dar uma conferência no grupo TED sobre uma nova forma de energia nuclear.[...]" Acedam a este blogue e vejam o vídeo que vale a pena.  

•  Op-Ed Columnist - Dreaming the Possible Dream -Tom Friedman NYTimes.com

... e as qualificações feitas por outros (respectivamente):

• Bill Gates is wrong about “energy miracles” « Climate Progress»

• Dear Vinod Khosla & Tom Friedman: No amount of sequestration will make coal “clean” | Grist: "No, no, a thousand times no. Even if a coal-fired power plant sequestered 100 percent of its carbon pollution, it would not be 'clean.' Even if, as Khosla says, it sequestered all its carbon pollution and helped abate carbon pollution from other sources, it still wouldn't be 'clean.'"