China’s generally very effective development machine faces new challenges. With inflation on the rise and heavily relying on export oriented low cost and energy intensive industries, China’s bureaucracy scrambles to keep electricity costs down. One might consider this to be an easy task. After all, utilities are state controlled and basically have to follow orders….
Tag Archive: Electricity
Wind Energy – Too Much Power for the US North-West
Plentiful and now melting snow has completely filled many reservoirs in the US North-West. To the extent actually that operators are now forced to produce too much electricity destroying demand for the output of the many wind power stations in the region. In an unprecedented step, wind farms are now regularly taken from the grid…
Saving Energy – Costing More
If there is a message to learn from the recent nuclear meltdown in Fukushima and the ongoing climate warming on which everybody could agree, it would probably be the insight that electricity is a scarce and more and more valuable good. Considering that, you would naturally assume that efficient energy use is promoted and rewarded…
Nuclear Energy – Conservaties Take a Stand for Cost Transparency
At the same time as in Japan the core of the nuclear plant of Fukushima is melting, German and Swiss right wing politician’s positions concerning nuclear energy are faltering. It is close to revolutionary that one of the leading newspaper publishes an article speaking of significant externalized (unaccounted) costs of nuclear power, hidden public subsidies…
Energy – Charge Batteries From of Thin Air copy
What is the best answer to constantly dry batteries? It’s easy: no batteries. It sounds too good to be true but if Nokia is right, cellphones will be charging their batteries out of thin air. More precisely by converting electrical-magnetic waves (radio wave, wireless internet, mobile phone waves, etc.) that constantly surround us in electrical…
Electric bicycle boom in China – For Real!
In spite of the economic crisis the electric bicycle market is booming. In Europe e-bikes get trendy, and even more so in China, where sales really take off. There, the 1000 producers sold about 22m units for about 11b $ in 2009. On the other hand the conventional bike market contracted by a fourth to…
