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The Party's Over
Post Carbon Fellow David Fridley was quoted in this piece on the tension between Chinese energy demand and clean energy policies.
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A few weeks ago, the China National Coal Machinery Association awarded its 2010 best coal-machinery awards. The government said it would soon found a national coal-price index, to help traders and buyers more accurately follow price fluctuations. And Guo Yuntao, a vice director of the State Administration of Work Safety, boasted that China would soon become the world's largest coal importer. (Guo ought to pay more attention to his agency's primary goal, safety. About 2,500 people die in China's coal mines each year, 13 earlier this month - the world's worst death rate.) David Fridley, an expert on Chinese energy use at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said he believes the American projections for China are probably exaggerated. But he also told me, "there's no scalable energy form in China that could offset the use of coal."
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