China's power crisis
China is facing its biggest power crisis in recent years, with factories halting production and cities across the country seeing blackouts. The Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post reported that the “world’s second-largest economy is suffering its worst power blackouts in a decade.”
Coal and hydro power supply shortage reportedly caused the power crisis. “China needs to bolster its coal supply to avoid an economic slowdown this quarter,” CNBC reported on Monday.
The energy crunch has forced Beijing to buy coal from Australia despite a ban imposed to bully the country. “China unloads Australian coal despite import ban amid power shortage,” the British business daily Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
China, the world’s biggest polluter, relies on coal for half of its energy needs.
...
Guess what is missing from their attempt to deal with the crisis? The world's largest producer of solar panels, which BTW they use goal in the construction of, is apparently not a viable solution to a real power shortage. Nor is wind in the mix. Those are only considered a solution in the fantasies of Big Green. China just sees them as a product to sell to others who want unreliable power.
Comments
Post a Comment