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Steve Chu, the director of LBNL (where I work), gave testimony at a congressional Hearing about China's energy use. You can read the full testimony online. The numbers and facts he quotes are scary. Almost half of the worlds CO2 emissions are from China and the US.
"China's addition of 90 GW of coal-fired power plants installed in 2006 alone is
expected to emit over 500 million tons of CO2 per year for their 40 year lifetimes. This compares to the entire European Union’s Kyoto reduction commitment of 300 million tons of CO2."

I'm hoping that the Window Energy Labeling effort that I'm involved in here, will make a tiny difference in the energy consumption.
posted by Christian on Thursday, March 29, 2007, 0 comments