"China won its bid for the 2008 games in part by vowing to put on a "Green Olympics" — a symphony of clean tech and energy efficiency that would do Greenpeace proud." "Lovely stuff, long overdue. And, this being the Olympics, there's also plenty of showboating. The new national stadium — dubbed the Bird's Nest — is rigged with an intricate rainwater-capture system to feed the infield grass. The bubbly blue National Aquatics Center — better known as the Water Cube — is wrapped in a high-efficiency thermal polymer skin. The Olympic Village is being outfitted with solar-powered showers. A fleet of electric buses is on the way, along with 3,000 lithium-ion garbage trucks. Even grim old Tiananmen Square, 5 miles due south, now boasts energy-efficient streetlights." http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/m...08/ff_pollution
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(HBO6 @ Aug 4 2007, 08:38 AM) [snapback]490499[/snapback]</div> Interesting read. China's got to do something about it's environmental practices. The air in those pics is just disgusting.
Still, was blown away by the sheer scope of the beginning of cleanup in China, I mean 3000 li-ion garbage trucks, there goes the lithium. It takes tremendous manpower and cheap labor to accomplish this on such a large scale. Unfortunately, it's starting to look like those pictures in LA/OC area of California. More blue sky, for now, but have noticed year by year the smog closing in. Thankfully, California is also being aggressive about environmental practices.
