From Autoblog: This study, conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory and China’s Tsinghua University, specifically focuses on China and concludes that mass EV adoption could lead to tremendously higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide due to the country’s widespread use of coal as a power source. Here’s the skinny from the [...]
Re: the tragic sinking of a South Korean Naval Ship, a good read (as always) from Fareed Zakaria on CNN: But here’s the dilemma. If China is going to play a larger role in the region, in Asia, what does it say when the country they have the maximum influence on — they have really [...]
(via HuffPo) China’s Gold Medals Found to Have High Lead Content China’s impressive haul of gold medals at the Beijing Olympics was tarnished somewhat today when it was revealed that “abnormally high levels of lead” were found in the first-place medallions…”We are trying to determine how exactly so much lead got into those gold medals,” [...]