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To: Eric who wrote (23848)	10/20/2010 1:33:44 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

The Chinese will win that one I'm afraid because we are going to be late to the game. The Chinese get most of their electricity from coal, and that will continue to be the case for decades. They continue to add more fossil fuel electricity generating capacity than anyone else. If they really where trying to shift to solar and wind (which they are not), than the extra cost and unreliability would hardly be a win for them. If we are going to somehow imagine it would be a win for them, it would hardly be a loss for us. Their reducing their fossil fuel use would benefit, not harm, those who mostly still rely on fossil fuels. As for competition in manufacturing of items for those energy sources, 1 - We build them as well, and 2 - Being first, or first to reach some threshold, hardly means your going to continue to dominate the area. Let's come back in 20 or so years and see if fossil fuels are cheaper. Again your attacking straw men. Who said they would be cheaper?