Comments on: China Got Over 1/4 of Its Electricity from Clean Energy in 2010

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:32:41 +0000

Larry Le Due: while China may be increasing its coal usage, it is clearly steaming ahead in regards to clean energy. you don’t need to see a report to know it, they have plenty of real-world humungo projects. the data (assuming it is fairly accurate) is interesting to look at, though.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:28:37 +0000

Yeah, the businesses have to be practical, though. Until the U.S. creates a more clean-energy-supportive economy, China is going to inevitably pull some jobs. It is going so much faster to promote clean energy.

By: WV Treehugger

WV Treehugger — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:55:15 +0000

Let’s not forget that have taken over 1/2 if not more of US jobs also. A US Solar panel maker just laid off over 200 workers and are moving to China. I’m all for clean energy in any country but when it takes our jobs,it upsets me.

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By: Larry Le Due

Larry Le Due — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:20:03 +0000

This is another classic example of China “cooking the books”. What a load of pure BS ! China tells its people what to do, how to do it and when to do it and now are telling you what they want you to believe. Pure bunk ! What about the install rate of one new coal fired power plant every week ? You do the math on how much RE it takes to equal 25% of this polluting source. Maybe they think you belive in “clean coal” as RE.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:44:06 +0000

Dukejohns, good additional points. I think the main issue these days is climate change, since that will create hardships like we’ve never seen if not at least slowed soon. But your point that there are other problems caused by hydro that need to be considered and addressed is an important one

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:40:17 +0000

thanks for the extra comments, Bill. i definitely have my hesitations about both as well

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:39:11 +0000

yeah, same here.

By: sola

sola — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:39:28 +0000

Impressive transformation.

I hope they keep up this pace and reach the 33% ratio in 2015.

By: Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:11:28 +0000

I’m delighted, as we all should be, that China is serious about renewable energy. Their progress on wind and solar is breathtaking. Some caveats, though: I would hesitate to call nuclear renewable and it’s most certainly not clean. (http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/category/nuclear-power/) As to big hydro, it’s renewable – if the water doesn’t run out when the Himalayas melt – but there are any number of environmental concerns, including habitat loss, the production of massive amounts of methane, mercury migrating into fish, etc. (http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/technology_and_impacts/energy_technologies/how-hydroelectric-energy.html#Environmental_Concerns)

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:47:12 +0000

Come on, everyone knows that you simply just cannot believe what the Chinese government says……well, at least every Chinese knows that…

By: Dukejohns

Dukejohns — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:48:15 +0000

The majority of China’s “clean energy” seems to be coming from hydroelectric power. This means dams to create the water power to generate this electricity. There seems to be not concern with the hardships this has created for the Chinese people and the towns/cities destroyed by the water back-up. I realize that clean energy is going to require a lot of changes if it is going to work, but we also need to be mindful of the human costs involved also.

By: Freebeazy

Freebeazy — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:34:28 +0000

What are the odds that these numbers are accurate? China isn’t really known for their honest reporting, which invariably comes from a non-third party government agency.