Comments on: China Now World Leader in Wind and Hydro

By: 1,000,000 MW by 2050 is China’s Long Range Wind Plan (What is Ours?)

1,000,000 MW by 2050 is China’s Long Range Wind Plan (What is Ours?) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:57:17 +0000

[…] year later in December 2011, with 42 GW of wind installed, China had become the world leader in wind power, overtaking the US, which had overtaken Germany several years […]

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:44:00 +0000

I loved how to clean up pollution before the games – they literally were “taking cars off the road” (normally cited as just a measurement ie: “like taking X cars off the road”) and when factories exceeded their pollution limits they closed them down. Draconian – but necessity is the mother of change, and it can be done.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:27:00 +0000

Googling “Pap air car” got me nothing. Do you have any links to info?

Might you have meant Tata? They bought a lot of the air car technology a while back but I’m not aware of them manufacturing any air cars.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:24:00 +0000

What China is doing about gasoline is beginning a very extensive program to bring EVs to their streets.

They tried to introduce EVs a couple of years back and their efforts failed because they had little charging infrastructure. They are now building the needed infrastructure. They’re also giving very generous subsidies to EV purchasers (about $20,000 is I recall correctly). China has a waiting list for permits to drive in Beijing because the streets are so crowded. They’re letting EV owners jump the queue and get their permits first.

China has several companies making EVs. BYD, one of the world’s largest battery manufacturer, has had a test fleet of their 200 mile range EV working as taxis. Several of their ‘e6′ EVs have now been driven over 100,000 miles, largely using rapid charge stations, and are showing no problems. That’s a lifetime of driving on the original battery and those batteries are still performing close to 100%.

What we are doing is installing a lot of public charging infrastructure, building several EV battery plants, and manufacturing EVs. Ford will be releasing their first EV in a few months, the electric Focus. GM is adding an EV to their fleet, the Spark. Tesla is soon releasing their luxury sedan with options of 160, 220, and 300 mile range battery packs.

(I didn’t know anyone was actually making air cars. I’ll have to check that out. For a while it looked like air cars would be a useful option, but then battery technology took off.)

By: Temo945

Temo945 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:25:00 +0000

China is doing that, I wonder what are they doing regarding gasoline, of course…….they will not advertize, they will just di it. India with Pap’s motors are enjoying their AIR CARS, are we going to do anything????? NO!!!

By: Temo945

Temo945 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:22:00 +0000

I know they gould do something about it, here……..they continue to take vrives so we do not do it, or forget about it.