“China, the world’s third-largest ethanol maker, will use 32.9 million acres (13.3 million hectares) of forestland, equivalent to the size of England, to grow trees that can be harvested to make bio-fuels. (via)”

It amazes me sometimes what China will do when China feels like doing something. They want a dam, they build the biggest one in the world, screw the consequences. They want wind turbines, by god they are going to build some F’ing turbines. Well it seems they want to make some Ethanol.

The world’s second-biggest energy user may spend 1.5 trillion yuan ($192 billion) in the next 15 years to increase the use of renewable resources to cut the nation’s reliance on oil.

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The state forest agency signed an agreement with PetroChina Co to develop land to grow crops for bio-fuels in southwestern China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, PetroChina said on January 11. Bio-fuels, which include bio-diesel and bio-ethanol, are made from vegetable oils or animal fats. They are blended with gasoline and diesel to reduce pollution from vehicle engines.(via)

I feel that China may be thrashing around like a hungry dragon at this point, scooping up any fuel source it can get its hands on. It is eating oil, coal, wind, solar, biofuel, hydro, and any other fuel source it can get its hands on at an impressive rate. I can’t say for sure if this is part of a long term sustainable energy plan, but when you have that many citizens that need energy, and an economy that is growing like a weed, its hard to put a lot of things into perspective.

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