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Scientists agree that the world’s CO2 concentration should stabilize around 450ppm. It is now around 387ppm, and increasing by 2ppm per year.

China’s Potent Wind Potential
Written by Administrator    Sunday, 25 October 2009 13:26    PDF Print E-mail
Written by Peter Fairley on 14 September 2009 for MIT's Technology Review

In this article, the author discusses a recent Harvard and Tsinghua Study saying that wind power could account for all of China’s projected demand in 2030. It also features Mr. Sebastian Meyer, Azure director of research and advisory, who said that the challenge of obtaining such an ambitious goal is as much administrative and financial as it is technical. He said that a political imperative for rural development guarantees that wind power will continue to develop, but financing incentives need to change. The current surcharge of 0.001-0.002 Chinese yuan per kWh, which Chinese consumers pay to support integration of renewable energy, barely covers the cost of patching wind farms onto the grid.

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