China’s Wind Farms Come With a Catch: Coal Plants

September 29th, 2009 at 08:27am Bob Trojan

China’s ambition to create “green cities” powered by huge wind farms comes with a dirty little secret: Dozens of new coal-fired power plants need to be installed as well.

Part of the reason is that wind power depends on, well, the wind. To safeguard against blackouts when conditions are too calm, officials have turned to coal-fired power as a backup.  Read the rest here..  Wind

So if China can build more coal plants, why must we Cap & Trade?

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