Posted on 09/30/2021 1:57:48 AM PDT by blueplum
SHENYANG, China -- People in northeastern China ate breakfast by the light of smartphones and shopkeepers turned on generators as much of the country enforced power cuts Wednesday to meet official conservation targets and ease shortages in some areas.
News reports blame high coal prices they say make power companies reluctant to meet booming demand, while economists say the real motive is political: Officials are under pressure to curtail energy use to meet official targets....
...In Shenyang, the northeast's most populous city, restaurant owner Li Yufeng used a battery from an electric bicycle to run a pot for noodles after seeing a notice power would be switched off at 7:30 a.m. Li said he started work two hours early, at 6 a.m., to prepare chicken, sauces and other dishes.
“There are some impacts, but not a big impact,” Li said as customers ate by smartphone lights.
Factories in China’s busiest manufacturing provinces have been ordered to suspend production for up to a week...
...The power cuts come as global leaders prepare to attend a U.N. environmental conference by video link on Oct. 12-13...
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
The environmental version of “cramming for finals”.
CC
Doesn’t sound like the next superpower.
My daughter exports coal to China from Indonesia and tells me the price has gone up dramatically. She says it is because Australia is reducing or stopping coal exports to China. I do know that Oz and China are having a long term snit about various issues, including the wuflu, but am not sure that any Australian boycott is the reason for the price increase.
Frashright no workie!
Need American made Magright wit D chells!
The current Superpower has difficulty keeping power on in certain places, California routinely has rolling blackouts and Texas nearly froze to death last winter....
Control the rats would love to have that’s why they are working at light speed to do it here
“Doesn’t sound like the next superpower.”
Don’t get too smug. They already have a larger navy than us, and are building blue water naval vessels at 5 times our rate. They have already fielded hypersonic missiles, while we brag about testing them and likely never will field them with this bunch in power. And the list goes on...
“My daughter exports coal to China from Indonesia and tells me the price has gone up dramatically. She says it is because Australia is reducing or stopping coal exports to China. I do know that Oz and China are having a long term snit about various issues, including the wuflu, but am not sure that any Australian boycott is the reason for the price increase.”
From watching Australian TV, the problem seems to be that China is ‘punishing’ Australia for not kissing up to them (as New Zealand is doing), with the latest being the sub deal, but many other reasons too.
But yea, the coal China needs comes from Australia, mainly, so China is kind of shooting themselves in the foot on this.
California lawmakers send Newsom bill that could ban gas generators
(Sent to Newsom on 9/20/21)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/california-lawmakers-send-newsom-bill-that-could-ban-gas-generators/article_1ac77bca-125a-11ec-92bd-ff1e24a2ca1f.html
AB-1346 Air pollution: small off-road engines.(2021-2022)
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1346
Sounds like another CCP created problem (restricted use) to solve another CCP created problem (coal quotas) - typical modern CCP governance.
The ChiComs been poising in the Aussies and some govt leftists woke up and smelled the coffee?
About time but more likely they think burying coal is better than sending it to China.
Just wait till the Three Gorges dam fails. I read they get 30% or more of their power from there.
“Just wait till the Three Gorges dam fails. I read they get 30% or more of their power from there.”
Not quite that much, closer to 3%, although it was probably closer to 30% when it first came on line. Even so, the destruction and deaths caused by that collapse could bring everything down in that country, including its government. Barring that, we might as well learn Mandarin, since we so screwed as a country at this point, it will be our only hope of survival.
100 years ago, Japan was on a path of building its forces and acquiring raw materials to feed its quest for total Pacific Rim domination.
No telling how much scrap metal and ores mined here were retooled and sent back our way not so many years later.
The DemocRats were in control for a bulk of that period of time. They sought ways to make nice nice with Japan.
Just as Chamberlain sought to placate Hitler in EUrope as he sold the continent out and then damn near got bombed out of existence, we could use a Churchill about now. (Trump was more a Patton imho)
Now, roll the times forward and the Dems would have us sitting in the dark, waiting for the sun to rise and hit Chinese-made solar panels so they can go back to work co-opting the constitution and making future generations globally pay dearly as they bask in their own glow, the angels of mercy that they pretend to be..
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