China says its car boom is ruining air quality

It will be interesting to watch what a government unfettered by misplaced moral objections and a gridlocked political system will do to solve this problem. The same system that solves their gang problems by finding them and killing them, while we do nothing about our gangs. They are going to bury us while we blow all our capital on military spending.

And where are they going to get all the energy from to power their electric cars? And all the expensive materials for car batteries.

Solar can charge some batteries on sunny days and wind turbines on cloudy/windy days. They can also burn biomass. Anything that can produce energy helps.

And where are they going to get all the energy from to power their electric cars? And all the expensive materials for car batteries.

The Three Gorges Dam, perhaps.

And where are they going to get all the energy from to power their electric cars? And all the expensive materials for car batteries.

The Three Gorges Dam, perhaps.

Or the 14 new nuclear CENR reactors they've built both on time and well under budget.

Solar can charge some batteries on sunny days and wind turbines on cloudy/windy days. They can also burn biomass. Anything that can produce energy helps.

Actually not, the costs of materials plays a role too. For example western Europe switched from incandescence bulbs to fluorescent tubes and it faces the lack of rare metals, because China banned their export recently.

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Biofuels are actually quite dirty for life environment, too. Their production devastates the rest of rain forests. And products of bioethanol burning in gas engines are producing even more smog, then the burning of oil products.

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And where are they going to get all the energy from to power their electric cars? And all the expensive materials for car batteries.

The Three Gorges Dam, perhaps.

Or the 14 new nuclear CENR reactors they've built both on time and well under budget.

The ONE lesson we can and should take from China....oh and Japan and France...

I wonder if they'll start shooting people for driving over 2 hours a day? ;-)

Europe ... faces the lack of rare metals, because China banned their export recently.

Most people would be embarrassed when caught spreading wrong news.
Except Zephyr.

Nuclear could provide the energy for electric cars and / or generate hydrogen from water for hydrogen powered fuel cell cars. I agree it will be interesting to see how they deal with this problem since their form of government can get things moving much more quickly than we can here in the US.

Europe ... faces the lack of rare metals, because China banned their export recently.

Most people would be embarrassed when caught spreading wrong news.

News can be only true or untrue. What is bad new for Japanese or Europeans is a good new for the Chinese and vice-versa. I'd support such decision without problem being average Chinese. Why some country should export metals, which are of strategical importance from it's own future perspective?

News can be only true or untrue. What is bad new for Japanese or Europeans is a good new for the Chinese and vice-versa. I'd support such decision without problem being average Chinese. Why some country should export metals, which are of strategical importance from it's own future perspective?

The strategic importance comes from holding the source, not from holding the product.

If the Spice doesn't flow, the empire dies.

That's correct, China will continue in treatment of rare metals from raw materials from other countries with using of existing Chinese technologies developed.

I heard the Soviet Union was also a wonderful place with a strong economy, at least until the place collapsed and the world learned the truth.

Once China's bubble bursts and all the investors lose their shirts over it, you will see just how well their form of government works. Just hope that it doesn't finish us off when their economy implodes.

Hey, welcome to the future, China! I remember, vividly, the smog alerts in Los Angeles during the 1950s. Ugly.

And where are they going to get all the energy from to power their electric cars? And all the expensive materials for car batteries.

I don't care where they get the energy from. EVERYTHING is more effecient and cleaner than an internal combustion engine.