2y ago

China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol

www.scmp.com

China launches test runs for world’s largest coal-to-ethanol plant

China launches test runs for world’s largest plant that can convert coal to ethanol::undefined

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What a waste of time,money, and resources
- China has ghost cities with empty apartment buildings. They have tons of resources to waste.
  
  Tell me you're living half a decade in the past without telling me. "Ghost cities" are actually areas where the state preplanned urbanization so everything would be in place when people started moving in. In fact, most of these "ghost cities" are actually populated now.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China
  Edit: could someone please explain why I'm being downvoted? I've provided a source to back up my statements. Or is this a case of "everything about China is bad because Red Scare"?
China is able to pivot quickly on projects of enormous scale in part due to its political structure. I doubt many western countries would pivot so quickly and drastically for national interests in whatever you call this version of capitalism.
- It's just plain old capitalism.
  
  With a sprinkle of dictator.
- It’s not efficiency that makes people prefer democracy.
- Source?
  It's funny how this image built of China to discredit anything they do leads a whole bunch of people online to just completely make stuff up on the spot against any positive news. When it comes to the point that a whole bunch of people are just making stuff up on the spot, we know how efficient the propaganda has been.
What's the point? For the drink?
- the point is leaving more food on the table that would otherwise be used for ethanol production.
- I'd guess for ethanol based fuels?
Too bad the SCMP conveniently doesn't link any research materials or evidence of this 'vital' energy production plan.
My bet is another bullshit project led by scammers. Just like that enormously retarded energy storage plan

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