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It won’t look too good for the American “green energy” industry right now, what with the Chinese slated to build wind turbine on autopilot, as it were.
Given the way things work over there, the government may just decree something to be done and, with a lot more ease than is the case over here, really get it done, come hell or high water!

Here, we need to negotiate and negotiate, in the process compromising to such a degree that no one is satisfied.
But though the Chinese may go and build wind turbine on autopilot, their system also has its flaws.
For instance, the great Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the world’s largest hydroelectric power station as measured by capacity, generating in excess of eighteen thousand megawatts at present with a future ability to sustain another four thousand three hundred.
This means that up to twenty-three million homes may be powered by this one single power station!

Unfortunately, the environmental costs are devastating, including an earthquake that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale and wiped out about eighty thousand people in May 2008.
Many highly respected scientists believe that the three hundred and twenty million tons of water collected by the dam placed too great a stress on the earth’s crust in a region recognized for earthquakes for thousands of years.
Indeed, the dam was only just below three and a half miles away from the epicenter of the quake, though over three hundred miles away from a known fault line.

Interesting, and sad – but what does all this have to do with the aforementioned “build wind turbine on autopilot” mania of the Chinese?
Well, the infamous Three Gorges Dam have also been built on autopilot, with the government decreeing it absolutely required, case closed.
Up to one and a half million people have been compelled from their homes with hardly any help, never mind the possibility to refuse (with a stunning five million total projected in the years into the future) – all in the name of progress.