While china has the largerst population in the world, it also produces the most pollution in the world. Right now they are not very happy with themselves, and want to help the world that we all must share. That is why most people are putting solar water heaters on their roof, and some are even getting their electricity from only solar pannels. Although their usage on fossil fuel will increase by 3% in the next decade, they still hope to be able to contribute as much as they can. That is why recent news reporters have confirmed that the chinese government just signed with The company, First Solar, to buy enough solar pannels to make a huge solar farm. And when i say huge i mean huge!!!! China plans to set aside unused land in inner mongolia. So much land in fact that they are making a solar farm larger than the city of manhatan. The largest in the world. It wil dwarf any other solar farm and is expected to supply over 3,000,000 homes in china. Now i know you may think, whats the big deal? On the day of this announcement, First Solar's stock price rose 23%. It went from $12 per share to $19 per share. One man even had 5000 shares that he had bought at $4 each for $20000, they are now worth almost $100000.
I think that it is great that china is going through with this project. I also completely agree with the fact that they are the biggest populated countries which means they also are the most polluting country. I am glad that they are finnaly stepping up and taking reponsibility. Not only that, now that they have taken responsibility, they are working as hard as they can to fix their mistakes.
Here are some questions:
1. What is your take on this situation is it a good idea? Why or why not?
2. How do you think they will build this solar pannel? How much do you think it will cost? How long do you think it will take them to build it?
3. How much energy do you think that pannel can produce yearly?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1931616,00.html
This is very a good idea by China to use solar energy as their primary energy. It is much cheaper than using fossil fuels and it's really great for the environment. I hope all China would change their energy uses to solar, because China is the country with the most people in the world and by changing that country, it will give examples for other countries and it might help bring a revolution to the world and finally we would stop using the poor fossil fuels which are running over.
ReplyDeletei answered question number 3
3. If we would use this power world wide, this source of energy has the greatest chance of replacing the fossil fuels and make a real change in the world we live today.
3. I think that