As we approach Copenhagen in December, China approaches a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/business/energy-environment/03renew.html"passing the U.S. in wind turbines/a.br /br /True, there may be construction underbids, or corruption, associated with a semi-command economy on such issues.br /br /Nonetheless, Beijing is requiring electric utilities to get 8 percent of their power from Inonhydroelectric/i renewable sources by 2020. Waxman-Markey allows dams built after 1992 to contribute to the U.S.’s desired 15 percent “green” by 2020 standard. It does also allow (theoretically) documented conservation measures to count.br /br /In reality, which will be better, I don’t know. But, aside from China’s continued refusal to commit to overall CO2 cuts, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/business/energy-environment/03renew.html"the story shows/a the U.S. doesn’t have a lot of room, necessarily, to go around browbeating China.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-6729997851973846911?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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