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...more than 40% of the world's photovoltaic shipments. But two years ago, Japan emerged as the world's leading manufacturer of these solar devices. The 214 giant wind turbines going to King Mountain in Texas at an estimated cost of $250 million come from Bonus, based in Brande, Denmark. Danish firms are supplying 60% of the wind turbines being installed in the fast-growing U.S. market, which this year alone will nearly double the total installed base of wind power. The only American wind firm with the heft to compete with the large European companies...
...base of wind generators in the world and plans to use renewables for as much as 15% of its new power over the next decade. So far, most of India's estimated $100 million annual spending on renewable-energy plants is going to Indian companies or firms such as Denmark's NEG Micon, which in 2000 had 9.1% of India's wind market--more than four times the share of the U.S. firm Enron. Says Dale Vince, managing director of Next Generation, which erected a large wind turbine for Britain's Sainsbury's grocery chain: "The export market will...
...costs helped encourage Sainsbury's in March to refrigerate part of a food-storage depot in East Kilbride, Scotland, with electricity generated by a towering, 213-ft.-tall wind turbine. Sainsbury's also powers the refrigerators on some of its delivery trucks through solar panels on the vehicles' roofs. Denmark's government used to subsidize the installation of wind turbines but abolished the program in 1989, when wind power was regarded as fully competitive with electricity produced from heavily taxed fossil fuels...
...fleet of 7,000 official cars "green," meaning they get ultrahigh mileage running, at least in part, on some ultra-clean fuel such as hydrogen. When told in May that this would take seven years, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responded with "That's too long--make it three!" Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria and Sweden also use government purchases to stimulate production of renewables. By contrast, the U.S. has no comparable federal policies to stimulate the market for green cars. A number of states, however, have set ambitious targets for using renewables...
...Long grain rice? Pegged currencies? Excessive humidity? McDonald's, free trade and air conditioning are eradicating those common cultural touchstones. And now the last great Asian unifier?thick, leaded, URBAN SMOG?is under threat by culturally insensitive Europeans. Last year, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, with technical assistance from Denmark, introduced a clean alternative to the three-wheeled, polluting TEMPOS and TUK-TUKS that ply Asia's cities. More than 600 electric three-wheelers now operate in Kathmandu, and while they are cleaner and safer than their internal combustion counterparts, we mourn the passing of a little bit of Asia...