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Metaphors & SoundbitesSolutionsClean EnergyChina is "eating our lunch" on clean energyChina is "eating our lunch" on clean energy
"Meanwhile China will keep eating our lunch on clean energy. What we need are politicians willing to make the tough—and often unpopular—decisions that can put the U.S. back in the game on energy."
Notes: See "China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy," New York Times, January 30, 2010.
"China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world's largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China."
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byMarc Hudson
September 18, 2011
It would depend on the audience, but CERTAINLY it's a good one to use if someone tells you taking action on climate change is going to lead to economic ruin. (This is usually a person who knows nothing about economics!!)
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Agree. Appealing to national pride and competition risks require walking a fine line. But perhaps useful as a "point of entry" with some audiences.