Opened my copy of the Times this morning (ah...the simple pleasure of the Sunday New York Times) and found yet another example of why we need to get into the green energy game.
TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China.
Meanwhile, here in America, we have this sort of thing.
Climate Change Hoax: Inconvenient Lies Exposed
News Media Falls For Climate Change Hoax
Does Climate Change Exist?
Here's what I can't figure out...why are there millions of people in this country who I KNOW love making money and beating competitors out (especially China) blinded by the insanity of simply having to be right?
WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT'S REAL OR NOT? PEOPLE WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON THIS STUFF!!!!!!
At this point, any person that claims to be a supporter of the free market and also believes that climate change is a liberal commie plot to fluoridate our drinking water is restricting innovation and being a complete fool.
In ten years, when China is sitting on a fat pile of cash, people will ask why the United States didn't step up as an international competitor in the green energy sector. The answer will be simple.
The Wrecking Crew.
5 comments:
If there is long term profit potential, the "free market" is pretty likely to be investing in it without govt direction to do so. That state-run economies do things differently is not a condemnation per se of the free market. Remember how Japan was supposed to be the model for us back in the 70s and 80s? Hasn't worked out so well, has it?
It's called barriers to entry...read up on it. Just try to start up a new nuclear power plant or even clean coal plants here in the US. Greens and government wouldn't let it in without vast sums of time and cash to get past regulatory hurdles. China has no hurdles - if the government wants it, it does it.
China can afford to subsidize markets and drive out any competitors thus reducing risk and barriers to entry. They don't play fair and probably never will.
But, 6Kings, are you saying that China's government is stronger than ours? I thought our government was totalitarian and can force us to do anything with the barrel of a gun?
Mark:
Catchy, but missing the point. China is totalitarian enough to not allow the population to throw up sham lawsuits to stop the construction of nuclear power plants.
Without the misguided eviros and the NIMBYs, a nuclear plant could be up and running in five years at the budgeted cost. Unless the gov't starts arresting peaceful NIMBY protesters, and dragging the non-resisting greens out behind the prison and executing them, no utility will bother wasting money to start a plant that will be tied up for a decade in endless court proceedings.
So, to answer you directly, yes. China's gov't is stronger than ours. Not exactly a desirable trade-off though.
I thought the one who controlled the purse strings was the most powerful, so if that's the case, yes China's government is stronger than ours. If they called on their loans to us, we'd be screwed.
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