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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (554)	8/28/2003 12:45:39 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 6370

PART 3: China in an energy quandary By Jasper Becker Part 1: The death of China's rivers Part 2: Peasants bear the brunt of energy plans China now ranks second globally to the United States in installed electricity capacity (338 gigawatts in 2000) but its use of electricity is just 38 percent of the world's average. If by 2050 its population peaks at 1.6 billion and per capita energy use reaches the world average, it will be adding the generating capacity of Canada every four years. China currently burns more than a billion tonnes of coal a year to produce 75 percent of its energy. Even the most optimistic assumptions foresee coal consumption growing by about 5 percent a year. atimes.com