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China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report: December 2007

January 18, 2008 | 5 Comments

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As China's appetite for energy continues to grow, so too does its implementation of renewable energy. The country's wind, biomass and solar industries are moving at an impressive pace -- officials are planning to generate roughly 120,000 megawatts (MW) from renewable resources by 2020.

The monthly China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report from China Strategies, LLC covers the latest political, financial and technological developments in China's rapidly growing renewable energy industries. The report examines the month's activities for policy makers, non-governmental organizations, companies doing business in China, and other interested parties.

In the December edition of the China Report, author Lou Schwartz writes about a document issued by Jiangxi Province stating that the province currently has China's largest amount of quartz sands, the raw material for silicon. Schwartz highlights 24 projects that are currently in place to take advantage of this supply as well as overall growth trends in the wind, solar and bioenergy sectors.

Lou Schwartz, president of China Strategies, LLC, and publisher of China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report, earned degrees in East Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and Harvard University where he studied Chinese language and literature, economics and law, among other disciplines. Lou also earned a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Lou has worked on various matters involving China's legal system, economic development, trade and investment while with a large U.S. law firm and currently as President of China Strategies, LLC.

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China Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Report for December

Bioenergy, Geothermal Energy, Green Power, Hydropower, Hydrogen - Fuel Cells, Ocean Energy, Other, Solar Energy, Wind Power

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paul-johnson-34828

January 23, 2008

What is the correct way to orient a house?

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george-reynoldson-33887

January 23, 2008

re: "a cheap way to reorient and site houes"  While working as a solar house designer/builders (70's - early 80's, I frequently spoke at service clubs and solar and builders conferences about the critical nature of proper building orientation and street layout issues related to solar access.  Many who understood solar design were emphatic about development procedures that balanced human activates with nature, but as usual, society said "we'll worry about that when the time comes" and we as a society merrily went on our way back to  contrarian habits.   Most of us could not understand why other designers and builders couldn't understand that it is infinitely easier to design a building with correct orientation than it is to renovate one for later solarization... AND they are aesthetically far superior.  Thirty lost years of solar design education is a huge unrecoverable loss to society.

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frank-j-heller-54997

January 23, 2008

Major Chinese appliance makers are penetrating the American Wind & Solar markets with low cost wind turbines, hybrid wind/solar appliances, and easy to install solar 'kits'.  I am astounded at the low pricing and warranties!  Now it they could invent a cheap way to reorient and site houses!

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tom-ingram-5368

January 24, 2008

I think the US has done a protty good job in proving its thirst for energy. We just haven't gotten to the point of it being a 'requirement' as the Chinese (and other developing areas too) are now experiencing.Hopefully the US can be the benefactor of some the ingenuity that is happening in China and elsewhere and apply some of those 'systems' to the US marketplace. We (collectively) tend to vote with our wallets, so when it gets to be enough of a problem, we'll deal with it. Just like that 'house orientation' topic in some of the comments ahead of mine.

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corby-ferguson-35932

January 24, 2008

We have that in America for the Mobile Homes.  My Solar water thermal heater is on 4 poles like that.

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