Chinese Leadership in Photovoltaic Production Opens New Era to Replace Polluting Energy Sources
Jaime Torres – González
Abstract
The polluting effects of the energy matrix that humanity currently uses are huge, and big changes are needed to
avoid irreparable damage to biosphere. Development of technologies and markets for clean renewable energy is
urgent. This article analyzes how in the first years of the XXI century sources of vast natural availability, as the
energies of the sun and wind, are becoming cost competitive and technologically mature. Describes how huge
consumption of coal has caused a serious deterioration of global environment, especially acute in China, factor
which coupled with its strong industrial policy, is turning this country into a technological and market leader on
renewable energy, with an enhanced production capacity of clean energy systems that are spreading across the
planet, starting to become reality "the beginning of the end of fossil fuels".
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