Australia’s enviable prosperity is the product of reliable and affordable energy. The path out of poverty starts and ends with cheap and readily available electricity. A bit over a generation ago China determined to leave behind its agrarian misery and to modernise, with a view to becoming an industrial superpower. It’s achieved that status, thanks … Continue reading Renewables Rejected: Modern Coal-Fired Plants Powering Asian Prosperity
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Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
Plenty of what Westerners know about the Middle Kingdom is more marvellous myth than solid fact. Fitting squarely within that category is the idea peddled by wind worshippers that China is working at a furious pace to carpet itself with millions of these things. In truth, instead of squandering billions on a technology that was … Continue reading Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects
As Germany’s Energiewende Implodes, China Plans to Export Affordable Power to Power-Starved Germans
Famously, in 1793 the Emperor Qianlong penned a letter for the benefit of the entourage led by English Ambassador, Lord George McCartney, informing him and his King, George III that “we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures.” Things have moved on … Continue reading As Germany’s Energiewende Implodes, China Plans to Export Affordable Power to Power-Starved Germans
China Won’t Waste Its Time on Wind Power
With the wind industry taking a belting around the planet – its spruikers are left clinging to any vestige of hope, with the anxious zeal of shipwreck survivors happening upon that last piece of flotsam. One such “hope”, is their belief that China provides the perfect example of what wind power outfits can do when … Continue reading China Won’t Waste Its Time on Wind Power
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