"CHINESE OFFICIALS Curse THAT China MAY Start Away FROM CORN-BASED ETHANOL AND COAL-TO-LIQUIDS False FUELS Bigger CONCERNS Certain THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THESE Option FUELS"
China may halt the production of grain-based ethanol and coal-to-liquids impersonation fuels, a Chinese recognized told a natter on China's fuel ethanol development believed in Beijing continue weekend.
The recognized, a stand-in elder with China's Home-grown Intensification and Sort-out State of affairs (NDRC), the nation's top economic direction agency, told natter attendees that the citizens no longer aid any ethanol projects meant to feature fuel from delicious feedstocks, together with hard skin.
Xu Dingming, corruption elder of the Outlet of the Home-grown Steer Prime Solidify, echoed these explanation phrase, "Food-based ethanol fuel will not be the manipulation for China." The Outlet of the Home-grown Steer Prime Solidify is blamed for energy direction and is an divide of the NDRC.
China may overly "put an end to projects which are meant to feature petroleum by liquefying coal," the recognized Xinhua Gossip Assign theoretical, citing the NDRC recognized who make fun of on state of anonymity.
The Assert Building, China's cubbyhole, overly specifically approved, at smallest amount of in law, a lasting renewable energy development plan,' a Forbes.com article intelligence. The development plan calls for boundaries on upward the corn-based ethanol and coal-to-liquids fuels due to their unprocessed impact, the keep a record theoretical.
It was not refuse to eat clear since the plan would be formally approved.
China's without delay getting bigger oil force down and meagerness of domestic oil resources has led the citizens to coil to alternative fuels, together with hard skin ethanol and coal-to-liquids impersonation fuels. The Chinese management theoretical before it would invest advance in upward alternative energy resources together with biomass fuel and liquefied coal to lever petroleum in the course of the 11th Five-Year Rest (2006-2010) rostrum, together with concerns enhanced the country's potential need on petroleum, Xinhua intelligence.
This show difficulty of flow, annoyed by concerns about the unprocessed sustainability of these alternative fuels, may blot a stir in intellect for the industrializing saving.
"The quick development of grain-based ethanol biofuels has resulted in commodity debit pressures in non-developed nations," the development report theoretical.
China's filament stores neediness be persistent on feeding its 1.3 billion high society and crop lands neediness be raw for rations production, not energy production, the report theoretical.
The renewable energy plan would allot China's ethanol industry to producing fuel from non-grain sources, such as grasses, hard skin stalks or other plant by-products.
The development plan overly calls for China to allot its baby bird coal-to-liquids industry due to the high-ceilinged treasury investment requirements and its high-ceilinged force down for water and energy in the course of the production process.
It seems that concerns about water and rations shortages may be birth to trump concerns about energy commodities as China's terrific population and quick economic look kind open resources.
China shaped 1.54 million heaps of ethanol in 2006, of which 850,000 heaps were through from hard skin, Forbes intelligence. Ethanol production, which these days occurs at four large ethanol plants, used up about two percent of Chinas cumulative hard skin production in 2006.
Coal liquidification, or coal-to-liquids technology, is a process which turns coal dressed in reduce gas, diesel or other fuels (such as dimethyl ether). Coal-to-liquids fuel production produces large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions as fountain as sulphur dioxide, get going and mercury vulgarity. It overly consumes large amounts of water to feature cloud used in the liquedification process.
If China is for sure special to another place from corn-based ethanol and coal-to-liquids fuels, they may be wiser than us here in the Affiliate States.
China's terrific population and quick economic development reckon put it with a rock and a wobbly posting.
The Chinese management wishes to scuttle to climb the economy, but the citizens has improve come to light to come to light with significant resource constraints - together with water, rations, energy and raw stores - as fountain as a without delay lacking environment.
These three pressures - economic development, resource constraints and unprocessed issues - are all palpably advance passionate in China than they are in the Affiliate States, further up the ladder the citizens to occupy seemingly advance widespread and sometimes not in agreement happenings. Ultimately, I critic that the realities of resource precincts and the ominous state of China's environment will shoddy that China will either become a passageway towards sustainable development, or the citizens will implode amidst water shortages, lack and riots enhanced unlivable unprocessed expressions.
And as customary, in the least prediction eventually plays itself out, China's flow publicize will reckon significant impacts on the recline of the world.
This seemingly undecided arrangement on corn-based ethanol and coal-to-liquids fuels is at smallest amount of an complimentary celebrate that China is birth to difficulty its intellect and search for a sustainable way publicize.
[A hat tip to Unpolluted Car League here and here and Toughen Walk. Aim source: MDIdea.com]
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"Part 1 of a 2-part story from innovation expert Will Dubitsky on Canada's missed opportunity to build a prosperous green economy."
The ardent defenders of our resource economy are in no way limited to the climate skeptics who support TransCanada's Energy East project, the Keystone XL pipeline and the tripling of Kinder Morgan's pipeline capacity to Vancouver. There are also much larger and perhaps more influential groups of traditional resource economy supporters - the greenwashers such as Justin Trudeau, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard, the majority of mainstream journalists, economists, Bay Streeters and more.
These stakeholders would have us believe that with a little tinkering of the status quo, we can address requirements to reduce greenhouse gases while supporting projects like TransCanada's Energy East and the other proposed pipeline projects for Canada.
According to this line of thinking, the traditional resource-based economic paradigm is a permanent fixture of global economics. Consequently, if TransCanada's Energy East pipeline isn't built, another petroleum source would fill the "void", leaving the impacts on greenhouse gases at the level of the status quo. In other words, new infrastructure to increase dour dependence on petroleum is fine, even though the International Energy Agency has said we must leave 80% of proven reserves in the ground if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change.
GREEN ECONOMY STILL IGNORED BY MANY
It is rather unfortunate that the green economy paradigm - despite the facts on the ground in China, Europe and the US - remains off the radar screen of nearly all economists.
Even the very conservative International Monetary Fund, Goldman Sachs and UBS are way ahead traditional economists on the decline of the resource economy paradigm, respectively exposing: 1) the spellbinding levels of subsidization of the fossil fuel sectors; 2) the high financial risks of unconventional fossil resources, such as the tar sands; 3) the rapidly growing quantity of stranded oil assets due to the combination of high debt loads and reserves that cannot be supported by market prices; and 4) the growing aggressiveness and frequency of government action on climate change around the globe. Together, these factors are fostering the emergence of a global green economy.
MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY, HUGE JOB GROWTHEXCEPT IN CANADA
The green sectors are among the fastest growing and highest job creation sectors of our times. Unfortunately, Canada is missing out on these opportunities while China, the European Union and, to a lesser extent, the US are way ahead of us.
There are 3.5 million people currently working in the green sectors in the European Union (EU), with 1.2 million in renewables. The clean energy sectors in Germany are right up there with the German auto sector in terms of job numbers, and there is a 7,000-position labour shortage in the EU wind energy sector.
At last count there were 300,000 people working in the Chinese solar energy sector and another 800,000 in its thermal solar sector. The projections for China's wind sector are 500,000 jobs by 2020.
Meanwhile, the US had174,000 people working in the solar sector as of November 2014.
All this makes good sense, given the fact that government investments in the green economy create 6 to 8 times more jobs than the same level of investment in the extractive resource economy.
QUEBEC MISSING THE BOAT
Though Quebec is participating in a carbon (cap and trade) market with California, current Couillard Quebec government actions are founded on a resource economy with negligible interest shown in high job creation green sectors. This is counterproductive not only for the environment but for the province's economic development as well.
To begin, Quebec could better grow its economy and reduce its dependence on wealthier provinces by concurrently: 1) rejecting the few hundred jobs associated with Energy East; 2) reducing its dependence on petroleum from outside Quebec and thereby reducing local emissions; 3) focusing on the high job creation green sectors, including the development of Quebec's emerging electric vehicle sector.
QUEBEC'S EMERGING EV SUCCESS STORY
The transportation sector represents 42% of Qu'ebec's emissions, so it's a good place to start for tackling emissions. The good news is that not only does the province enjoy a clean energy surplus - mainly hydro - but its nascent electric vehicle (ev) sector has given rise to some promising local companies and institutions, including:
* EV battery manufacturer Bollor'e/Bathium
* Electric motor wheel company TM4
* A Nova Bus (Volvo) electric bus under development
* Two manufacturers of electric vehicle charging stations - GRIDbot and ADD'Energie
* EV research centres such as the Centre National du Transport Avanc'e and L'Ecole de technologie sup'erieure
Should Qu'ebec and Canada not seize the day, it is China and the US - California in particular -- that will continue to be the leaders in, and reap optimal long term benefits from, the electrification of transport.
CHINA: FULL STEAM AHEAD ON CLEAN TECH
While BYD of China is already manufacturing electric buses - this includes a manufacturing plant for BYD electric buses in California - China's central government has adopted aggressive policies to the effect that beginning 2016, 30% of all government vehicle purchases will be electric.
Meanwhile, the city of Shenzhen recently announced a cap on new vehicle sales to cut air pollution, coupled with a requirement that 20% of registrations must be electric vehicles.
China's central government is also considering a 16 Billion program to set up charging stations across the country and it has removed the 10% purchase tax for electric and hybrid vehicles.
CALIFORNIA LEADS WAY WITH EVS
In the US, California is leading the way on electric vehicles with a comprehensive plan and legislation agenda that includes financial assistance for low income residents and support for clean energy micro-grids complete with energy storage and electric vehicle charging stations. New homes and parking lots are also being required to have the electrical infrastructure in place for setting up electric vehicle charging stations.
QUEBEC BACKSLIDES ON GREEN INVESTMENT, SHALE OIL AND GAS
Yet the Couillard government, much like policies of Harper and Trudeau, lives in the past tense, supporting TransCanada's Energy East pipeline proposal while cancelling a 500 million PQ program for the electrification of transport, instead committing 450 million for an unneeded cement plant that will be fueled by petcoke - a high-carbon content fuel derived from the residues of tar sands refineries. Couillard also remains fixated on his predecessors' Plan Nord - a large scale vision for heavy extractive industries in the province's north.
Meanwhile, Couillard shows disturbing signs of softening Quebec's moratorium on fracking, letting it be known that his government will not be taking action along the lines of the New York State to impose a permanent ban on shale gas development. Instead, his government appears to be keeping its options open for developing a shale oil sector on the Island of Anticosti, which the previous PQ government injected 115 million into through two equity agreements.
In addition to the high level of methane leaks from shale gas wells and risks of soil, water and air pollution, it is becoming clear from the US experience that shale gas and oil lead to boom and bust economics. Yet Couillard appears reluctant to fully cut ties with this form of development and instead seize the enormous benefits available from the green economy.
"Watch for the sequel to this story next week - exploring the decline of the fossil fuel era and remarkable rise of the green economy."
The post Canada, Quebec's political leaders blind to green jobs revolution appeared first on The Common Sense Canadian.
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