China Cementing Global Dominance of Renewable Energy and Technology

[GS Zhou]

Video showing how 40m long wind turbine blades are transported from A to B

Very nice video. Impressive!

The following picture from the video tells us everything why China could improve its infrastructures in such a rapid pace. It's NOT just money, or blank claim that "we have huge demand, we urgently need this and that", or "I have confidence on Korean or Japanese contractors, they will help us to resolve the technology challenges".

The most important part of China's success is the country's full value-chain advantages. The picture below is a very nice example:
- Manufacturing: wind turbine blades made by Sino-Wind (中科宇能)
- Transportation: heavy trucks used are made by C&C Trucks (CIMC & Chery, 集瑞联合卡车)
- Lift: cranes to lift the blades are made by XCMG (Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group / 徐工)

You can of course pay foreign contractors on each of the steps (manufacturing --> transportation --> lift --> installation). But that means longer time, higher investment, and outflow of the money.

 

[cirr]

Very nice video. Impressive!

The following picture from the video tells us everything why China could improves its infrastructures in such a rapid pace. It's NOT just money, or blank claim that "we have huge demand, we urgently need this and that", or "I have confidence on Korean or Japanese contractors, they will help us to resolve the technology challenges".

The most important part of China's success is the country's full value-chain advantages. The picture below is a very nice example:
- Manufacturing: wind turbine blades made by Sino-Wind (中科宇能)
- Transportation: heavy trucks used are made by C&C Trucks (CIMC & Chery, 集瑞联合卡车)
- Lift: cranes to lift the blades are made by XCMG (Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group / 徐工)

You can of course pay foreign contractors on each of the steps (manufacturing --> transportation --> lift --> installation). But that means longer time, higher investment, and outflow of the money.

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I can't agree more.

And soon li-ion battery energy storage systems will become an integral part of the wind farms.

Batteries made by the likes of CATL, BYD, Lishen.................................................

 

[GS Zhou]

And soon li-ion battery energy storage systems will become an integral part of the wind farms.

I think that already happens！ Search the key words "张北风光储输示范工程"

 

[TaiShang]

Very nice video. Impressive!

The following picture from the video tells us everything why China could improves its infrastructures in such a rapid pace. It's NOT just money, or blank claim that "we have huge demand, we urgently need this and that", or "I have confidence on Korean or Japanese contractors, they will help us to resolve the technology challenges".

The most important part of China's success is the country's full value-chain advantages. The picture below is a very nice example:
- Manufacturing: wind turbine blades made by Sino-Wind (中科宇能)
- Transportation: heavy trucks used are made by C&C Trucks (CIMC & Chery, 集瑞联合卡车)
- Lift: cranes to lift the blades are made by XCMG (Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group / 徐工)

You can of course pay foreign contractors on each of the steps (manufacturing --> transportation --> lift --> installation). But that means longer time, higher investment, and outflow of the money.

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Very well said. Complete national (and, as a second step and when the first step is not ready yet, regional) manufacturing chain is crucial to ensure independence, benefit from economies of scale and increase security in times of crisis.

 

[TaiShang]

China creates world's first coal-to-ethanol production line
By Zhang Zhihao | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-03-17

China has successfully created the world's first production line to turn coal into ethanol, or drinking alcohol, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Friday.

Created by Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum and the academy's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in Liaoning province, the production line went into operation in January and has the capacity to make more than 100,000 metric tons of pure ethanol every year, according to Liu Zhongmin, the institute's deputy director.

By 2020, China will build a factory capable of producing 1 million tons of ethanol each year using the same technology, he said.

The country currently produces 7 million tons of ethanol each year using other methods, which can "hardly satisfy" its industrial and energy needs, according to Liu.

"Most countries produce ethanol using food, such as corn or sugar cane, but this is not a viable option for China given its massive population," he said.

"By turning China's abundant coal resources into ethanol, the technology will help safeguard our energy and food security,"

Moreover, ethanol is a green fuel and versatile ingredient. "Utilizing it could reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and make our industrial production and energy structure more environmental friendly," Liu said.

In addition to alcoholic beverages, ethanol can be used to produce thousands of everyday products from plastics to detergents. It can also replace more toxic ingredients, such as methanol, during industrial production.

Other uses include mixing it with petroleum to increase its fuel efficiency and reduce pollution. An abundant supply of ethanol would also make ethanol-fueled vehicles more viable, Liu said.

 

[The Eagle]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-03/17/content_28595237.htm

Always mention the source/link while sharing a news.

 

[nang2]

Utilizing it could reduce our dependency on fossil fuels

Strange comment. Isn't coal a type of fossil fuel?

 

[Azadkashmir]

i am sure i read somewhere that germany did this in the world war.

 

[Solomon2]

Coal to drinkable alcohol?

 

[TruthHurtz]

Coal to drinkable alcohol?

oy veeeeeeeeeey

 

[Solomon2]

oy veeeeeeeeeey

Yes. Just imagine the fatalilties among alcoholics world-wide if China chooses to reveal secrets of this process! (And remembering the Opium Wars, it wouldn't surprise me if China did just that.)

 

[tranquilium]

Strange comment. Isn't coal a type of fossil fuel?

Fossil fuel dependence generally refer to dependence on petroleum for several reasons:

1. Overall reserve for petroleum on earth is much smaller than coal reserve.
2. China's petroleum reserve (while still quite large) is much smaller comparing to its coal reseve.
3. Pollution generated by petroleum burning is much higher than coal-ethenol burning.

So yes, strictly speaking, coal is also a fossil fuel and coal burning is classified under fossil fuel. Coal-Ethenol process, however, is not generally seen that way.

 

[bobo6661]

Nothing new ...

TCX Technology is the brand name for a hydrocarbon-based ethanol production process developed and marketed by Celanese Corporation. Celanese researchers developed the TCX Technology in its Clear Lake City, Texas plant under the direction of its CEO to create a fuel that helps countries reduce their need to import oil and gas.[1] Celanese launched the TCX Technology in November 2010[2] and plans to invest $700 million[1] to build one-to-two plants in China and one in Texas that will produce TCX-based ethanol.[3]Celanese expects to produce approximately 300 million gallons of TCX ethanol by 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCX_Technology

 

[nang2]

Fossil fuel dependence generally refer to dependence on petroleum for several reasons:

1. Overall reserve for petroleum on earth is much smaller than coal reserve.
2. China's petroleum reserve (while still quite large) is much smaller comparing to its coal reseve.
3. Pollution generated by petroleum burning is much higher than coal-ethenol burning.

So yes, strictly speaking, coal is also a fossil fuel and coal burning is classified under fossil fuel. Coal-Ethenol process, however, is not generally seen that way.

Anything we dig out from ground and burn is fossil fuel. That is pure addition into carbon dioxide content in atmosphere.

 

[shadows888]

Anything we dig out from ground and burn is fossil fuel. That is pure addition into carbon dioxide content in atmosphere.

There's a lot more coal in the world than oil though. I don't think coal will be in usage beyond 60 more years, at least in China.