Although many won’t consider China as an environmentalist, but a growing green movement is underway in China’s industries, and according to some experts, China will probably leap ahead in renewable energy.
China is successfully changing its economic climate to greener side, especially in the form of green technologies like these wind turbines. For the last four years, China has doubled its wind energy capacity. This year, it will overtake the U.S. as the world’s top manufacturer of wind turbines.
China believes that in the next decade, it will be able to match Europe by producing a fifth of its energy needs from renewable sources. China is striving hard to become a clean energy superpower, even as the United States moves to do the same.
According to experts, China may be in position to take on the lead, and not just in wind energy. The country also has the largest solar power manufacturing industry, with the government recently approving a plan to build the largest solar field on Earth, 65 square kilometers, generating enough energy to light three million homes.
However, it should not be forgotten that China is also the world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide. Of the world’s 20 most polluted cities, 16 cities are in China, most of the pollution caused by coal-fire generated power. But its efforts towards a greener future may soon cover its bad name regarding carbon dioxide emission.
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