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China fact of the day
...there are 100 gigawatts of "illegal" electric power plants in China, meaning plants not approved by the central government. (The entire nation of France uses 80 gigawatts of power. China uses 650 gigawatts.)
China sentence of the day is also a citation from Arnold Kling:
China's central government has difficulty getting its constituencies to change, and it is "outsourcing" some forms of regulation and governance to the U.S. and international organizations.
China essay of the day is here.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 5, 2007 at 01:12 PM in Data Source | Permalink
Comments
Do you realize how many people they could send back in time!?
Posted by: josh at Nov 5, 2007 2:05:38 PM
I thought the China fact of the day for today was PetroChina surpassing Exxon Mobil as the world's largest company by capitalization, the world's first trillion-dollar company (yes, I know there are major caveats, as described in the linked article).
Posted by: at Nov 5, 2007 2:33:31 PM
Is this a good/bad day for anarcho-capitalists?
Posted by: at Nov 5, 2007 4:03:27 PM
"Do you realize how many people they could send back in time!?"
537 and change, by my count
Posted by: Bill at Nov 5, 2007 5:41:39 PM
I wonder what the population of China would be today if Mao's socialist policies towards agriculture didn't lead to the death of millions of Chinese between 1959 and 1961.
Posted by: Nate at Nov 5, 2007 8:24:45 PM
I can't believe Brad really thinks that tax cuts for a few rich US citizens was the largest destabilizing force in the world 4 years ago.
Posted by: dave smith at Nov 6, 2007 10:10:22 AM
It seems to me that considering that most of china is still in comparative dark ages relative to the west, that China's government wouldn't have a problem with more power plants (Which the government didn't build, another bonus: they didn't have to pay for them). The only problem i can see that would make these plants illegal would be if they didn't meet the emissions requirements of the government, or perhaps if they hindered vital river flows. And if either of those is the case, does the Chinese government not have the ability to shut them down??
Posted by: tsstevensWCU1112 at Nov 13, 2007 8:49:47 AM
It seems to me that considering that most of china is still in comparative dark ages relative to the west, that China's government wouldn't have a problem with more power plants (Which the government didn't build, another bonus: they didn't have to pay for them). The only problem i can see that would make these plants illegal would be if they didn't meet the emissions requirements of the government, or perhaps if they hindered vital river flows. And if either of those is the case, does the Chinese government not have the ability to shut them down??
Posted by: tsstevensWCU1112 at Nov 13, 2007 8:52:10 AM
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