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Potential for Wind-Generated Electricity in China

Published:2009-09-11 Issue:5946 Volume:325 Page:1378-1380
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

McElroy Michael B.¹,Lu Xi²,Nielsen Chris P.³,Wang Yuxuan⁴

Affiliation:

1. School of Engineering and Applied Science and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

2. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3. Harvard China Project and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

4. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Blowing Away Coal China is the world's largest carbon dioxide producer and the world's second-largest producer of electrical power, 80% of which it generates by burning coal. An affordable, carbon-free source of electrical power generation would thus constitute an important way for China to reduce its CO 2 emissions and other environmental impacts of fossil-fuel burning. McElroy et al. (p. 1378 , see the cover) show that there is enough wind in China to generate electricity to supply the nation's entire projected demand for 2030 (about twice what is used now) at reasonable prices per kilowatt-hour.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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