WIND COULD MEET CHINA’S ELECTRICITY DEMANDS: STUDY

clipped from www.planetaazul.com.mx Wind power could meet China's electricity demands through 2030 and cut carbon dioxide emissions in China by 30 percent, U.S. and Chinese researchers said CHICAGO, US; september, 14, 2009.- China already is the world's chief emitter of carbon dioxide, a leading so-called greenhouse gas implicated by scientists in global climate change. China currently generates 792.5 gigawatts of electricity per year, mostly through coal-fired power plants, and that output is expected to grow by 10 percent per year, a team from Harvard University in Massachusetts and Tsinghua University in Beijing reported in the journal Science. "China is bringing on several coal-fired power plants a week," Michael McElroy of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences said in a statement. "By publicizing the opportunity for a different way to go, we will hope to have a positive influence," McElroy said. About 80 percent of China's electricity comes from coal.