World's Largest Wind Farm | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 6
The largest wind farm in the world is being constructed in China's Gansu Province, and is one of six mega-farms going up across the country. Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ More information on the Gansu wind farm project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm Like our page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Join us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/100134925804523235350/posts Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo Music: "All This Scoring Action" All This - Scoring Action by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300001 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Video created by Bryce Plank Video script: By now you’re seeing the trend here: the world’s biggest city, the world’s longest canal, biggest airport, longest high speed rail network and underwater tunnel. So the fact that China is building the world’s largest Wind Power Farm too shouldn’t surprise you. The Gansu Wind Farm Project will produce 20 Gigawatts of power by 2020, and will cost nearly $20 billion to build. Turbines are going up at the staggering rate of 35 per day across the three areas that make up the power base. In 2012, Gansu’s capacity surpassed the total wind-generated-electricity produced by all of the United Kingdom, and it’s just the largest of six mega-wind farms currently under construction throughout China. But China isn’t embracing wind just to reduce its carbon emissions, it’s doing everything it can to simply keep the lights on. Some parts of the country with booming middle class populations suffer persistent electricity shortages because, just like us, people want refrigerators, dishwashers, washer and dryers, and computers in their homes, but there’s only so much energy to go around. So China’s State Council is pushing for an across-the-board renewable strategy to reduce its dependence on oil, coal and gas, the finite resources of the 20th century whose extraction and consumption are subject to constant geopolitical tensions. As a result, since 2013, China has led the world in renewable energy production, with a total capacity of 378 installed Gigawatts, coming from projects as wide-ranging as Gansu to hydroelectric power plants like the Three Gorges Dam, which spans the Yangtze River and is the world’s largest power station of any kind. In just the last 10 years, China has increased its solar panel production 100-fold to become the world’s leading manufacturer of the technology. With China now pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere than the number two and three emitting countries - the US and India - combined, it’s vital for the future of the planet that it continues using MegaProjects to create a lot more Megawatts of clean, green power. Thanks for watching. Click the like button to help share this video, it really helps me out. Until next time, for TDC, I’m Bryce Plank.
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Appreciate your fair report abut China!
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California actually got a lots green mega projects in developing as well, meanwhile in other states.... they are racing backwards....
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Great video! :D
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You didnt even mention their movement on "thorium" based reactors. I implore you to look into what that entails and how the US is going to fall severely behind if we don't start working on our own thorium projects.
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Thanks a lot i really appreciate the efforts you put in each video you make.
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why didn't you mention the biggest bubble in the history they have been building for decades
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China has a lot of renewable sources but not efficient due to unconnected power grid.
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This may work fine for China, they have the land to spread out these "fans" but it wouldn't work for other countries like the U.S.. We don't have the land to waste as it would take the ENTIRE state of Texas to power just part of the western side of the US with a big MAYBE! I'd love to put solar on your home, as we get great sun light the entire day, but cost wise we can't afford it and the US government won't give tax free breaks for people to do so.
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Despite being industrialized around 100 years ago , USA is still the world's second largest carbon emitter . With a 300 million + population they are the second largest where as they blame the developing nations like China which has over a billion population , many in poverty and also India which has over 1.2 billion population large number of which are in poverty . I mean India is behind the US on carbon emissions and still it is trying to put up large number of solar farms . A country whose average GDP per capita is $1500 vs a country whose GDP per capita is $50000 . How can you compare the two countries and still US is ahead of India in carbon emissions despite its industrialization , despite having all the technologies and despite being pioneers in all the technologies. And now that India has launched a plan of 200GW of Solar Energy by 2030 , the US starts pushing India to the corner to buy US solar products as well . I mean why should India buy solar panels from US if it can produce itself. I think USA is acting a bit hypocritical . First they blame the developing countries for something that they started , and even then when they are changing they pressurize them to buy their products so that the corporations earn big money . What is the use of protecting the environment when millions of people live under $1 a day and many are dying . People from the US should visit India and see the millions of people who are deprived of electricity . I feel there is a tremendous injustice going on . If the OECD countries really think of a better world , they should make the energy technology really cheap so that quick implementation takes place. They are the one who emitted things in the first place and at the same time exploited the Asian nations , they are the ones who dropped the nuclear bomb and now talks about disarmament . I think an incredible amount of injustice is going on amongst the developed world against the developing world .And at the end what you see . CHINA is the leading solar energy producer in the world and way ahead of Germany . CHINA has industrialized in the last 3 decades after years of Colonial exploitation and Maoist rule and having over a billion population and despite not being pioneers in renewable energy , they are the top producer of solar energy while the US bullies all the middle east countries for oil inspite of having large amount of oil in their own country and Canada. What is the point ? Remember China is a country of $6500 GDP per capita which is 7 times less than US and India GDP per capita is 40 times less than USA yet the Pollution per capita of US is the highest
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Crisp content. Like your videos. Liked and subscribed.
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This is what us needs to do !!
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Its pronounced 20 jigawatts, according to Doc Emmett Brown. Just saying.
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China will also build wind farms for other countries
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Hundreds of millions of Chinese people are suffocating due to unclean cars, dirty coal plant and industries, and you're worried about their release of plant food?
This sounds as insane to me as a starving country's biggest problem isn't lack of food, but that they haven't sacrificed enough children to the big deity of rice. Yea, sacrificing all the children will eventually make more food available, but it's just as stupid as building billions of wind farms before making the air clean enough (which is MUCH cheaper) so that the factory workers don't become sick.
CO2 has no proven effect on the climate except that there is a huge greening effect on the Earth, especially in the dry areas. A war in CO2-emissions is basically a war on the food production in NIger (an extremely unsuccessful and expensive one, of course).
The political organization IPCC are building their policies on fraud, false data, mass hysteria and especially the Obama administration's war on climate science where all scientist who don't confirm to the disproved theories lose their jobs.
And kids keep on dying due to bad air and lack of power. Due to CO2-hysteria. -
Remember ,China only started using massive fossil fuel only the last 25 Years , before that ,99% of the road traffic were on bicycles . while most of the Western countries were totally addicted of burning fossil fuel for the last 125 years .
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This is a mega project I can really get behind. I am very envious of this; if only the US would be this aggressive on the renewables front.
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the western influence is diminishing. The rise of china is the redemption of the asian nation. Thumbs up if u agree (Y)
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Why is Taiwan included in that High Speed Rail Map Of China? Taiwan is not part of China! Please choose your pictures carefully.
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