As far as I know, China is planning to build thousands of small dams but does not seem to have any free flow hydro intentions. This is regretable in that free flow hydro should be of greater environmental as well as life cycle benefit than with fixed hydro. However, the Chinese have proven downright aggressisve in wind turbine development so there is no reason to believe that once the technology is proven profitable, water turbines should be manufactured and come to market.
My thinking leads me to believe that perhaps the best overall hydro development might be the continued construction of dams already planned because the momentum of dam planning cannot be easily altered while looking ahead to free hydro installations close to available transmission lines.
China should also consider using ocean current energy extraction with turbines because of the great power requirments along their eastern seaboard. Wave power should also prove of value.
The real question with energy in China is in production. How much renewable energy can be developed to replace the over 900million tons of coal being burned yearly. The Chinese just cannot continue burning more and more coal even though this seems to be the trend. More thought on the part of the government is needed to redirect industrial efforts toward the manufacturing of renewable energy producing devices while at the same time increasing the tax on companies producing pollutants entering the atmosphere and rivers.
Increased renewable energy production should go hand in hand with governmental laws that will produce effective clean-up measures even perhaps at the sacrifice of economic growth. In my opinion, China has already done serious damage to its environment and unless it makes more serious efforts to clean up its waters and air, is headed for even more grevious health and social problems.
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Submitted on June 30th, 2007 by InterestedReaderAs far as I know, China is planning to build thousands of small dams but does not seem to have any free flow hydro intentions. This is regretable in that free flow hydro should be of greater environmental as well as life cycle benefit than with fixed hydro. However, the Chinese have proven downright aggressisve in wind turbine development so there is no reason to believe that once the technology is proven profitable, water turbines should be manufactured and come to market.
My thinking leads me to believe that perhaps the best overall hydro development might be the continued construction of dams already planned because the momentum of dam planning cannot be easily altered while looking ahead to free hydro installations close to available transmission lines.
China should also consider using ocean current energy extraction with turbines because of the great power requirments along their eastern seaboard. Wave power should also prove of value.
The real question with energy in China is in production. How much renewable energy can be developed to replace the over 900million tons of coal being burned yearly. The Chinese just cannot continue burning more and more coal even though this seems to be the trend. More thought on the part of the government is needed to redirect industrial efforts toward the manufacturing of renewable energy producing devices while at the same time increasing the tax on companies producing pollutants entering the atmosphere and rivers.
Increased renewable energy production should go hand in hand with governmental laws that will produce effective clean-up measures even perhaps at the sacrifice of economic growth. In my opinion, China has already done serious damage to its environment and unless it makes more serious efforts to clean up its waters and air, is headed for even more grevious health and social problems.
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