Hey all,
An interesting update to the First Solar project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia that we were able to hear first hand about from the project manager last spring.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/12/AR2010081203201.html
See you on campus in a few weeks!
Elaine
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline Begins Operations
China-Russia Crude Oil Pipeline Begins Operations
Associated Press / August 29, 2010
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Russia has opened its section of a crude oil pipeline from eastern Siberia to China, a major step in expanding energy cooperation between the neighboring powers.
The 1,000-kilometer (625-mile) pipeline will connect Russian oil fields with Daqing, a major oil production base in northeastern China.
''For China, this will help stabilize its energy supplies and security. For Russia, this offers a new market for exports to the Asia-Pacific region, especially dynamic and developing China,'' the state-run China National Petroleum Corp. quoted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying, in a statement issued Monday on its website.
Russia is the world's biggest energy producer and China is the world's largest energy consumer, overtaking the United States last year. Although Europe remains Russia's largest export market for gas and oil, both Beijing and Moscow have been seeking to diversify their energy sources and markets, despite a long history of mutual suspicion and tensions.
Speaking at the ceremony Sunday in the Russian city of Skovorodino marking the pipeline's opening, Putin said cooperation would not be limited to oil exports. Russia welcomes Chinese help in exploiting its abundant resources in the Far East and in expanding refining and marketing, he was quoted as saying.
The Chinese segment of the pipeline is still under construction but is expected to begin operations before the year's end, the statement said.
Eventually, the pipeline is to provide 30 million tons of oil a year to China, with exports to the Asia-Pacific region expanding to a total of 50 million tons a year, Putin was quoted as saying.
During a visit by Putin to Beijing late last year, Russia signed dozens of commercial pacts worth $3.5 billion and set the framework for a separate, multibillion-dollar agreement to build two natural gas pipelines to China from gas fields in Russia's Far East that would provide supplies almost matching China's current consumption.
Associated Press / August 29, 2010
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Russia has opened its section of a crude oil pipeline from eastern Siberia to China, a major step in expanding energy cooperation between the neighboring powers.
The 1,000-kilometer (625-mile) pipeline will connect Russian oil fields with Daqing, a major oil production base in northeastern China.
''For China, this will help stabilize its energy supplies and security. For Russia, this offers a new market for exports to the Asia-Pacific region, especially dynamic and developing China,'' the state-run China National Petroleum Corp. quoted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying, in a statement issued Monday on its website.
Russia is the world's biggest energy producer and China is the world's largest energy consumer, overtaking the United States last year. Although Europe remains Russia's largest export market for gas and oil, both Beijing and Moscow have been seeking to diversify their energy sources and markets, despite a long history of mutual suspicion and tensions.
Speaking at the ceremony Sunday in the Russian city of Skovorodino marking the pipeline's opening, Putin said cooperation would not be limited to oil exports. Russia welcomes Chinese help in exploiting its abundant resources in the Far East and in expanding refining and marketing, he was quoted as saying.
The Chinese segment of the pipeline is still under construction but is expected to begin operations before the year's end, the statement said.
Eventually, the pipeline is to provide 30 million tons of oil a year to China, with exports to the Asia-Pacific region expanding to a total of 50 million tons a year, Putin was quoted as saying.
During a visit by Putin to Beijing late last year, Russia signed dozens of commercial pacts worth $3.5 billion and set the framework for a separate, multibillion-dollar agreement to build two natural gas pipelines to China from gas fields in Russia's Far East that would provide supplies almost matching China's current consumption.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Leadership Planning: Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference, Aug. 31st in SF
I need to make a correction, I meant Tuesday Aug. 31st, not Wednesday.
Corrected note below:
Interested in deep diving into one area of cleantech? Want to meet C-level executives of exciting global cleantech companies? Have leadership abilities or want to work on them?
I am excited to announce the 6th Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference kick-off meeting. The Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference Series is a student-led organization founded in 2007 to bring together students and alumni at UC Berkeley and Stanford University as well as key members of the academic, policy and business communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Each conference discusses focused cleantech topics from the technology, entrepreneurial and policy standpoints, to find long-lasting solutions to climate change and other current energy challenges.
This May we held our 5th successful conference “Electric Car2.0: Who Will Win the Race – Innovation, Policy, China” in downtown San Francisco. The 300-seat event sold out and was attended by a mix of 30% students and 70% professionals. We featured speakers from respected VC firms, electric vehicle entrepreneurs, utilities, policy and research firms.
Our immediate goal is to recruit the next generation of students passionate about cleantech to take leadership of this conference series for the November 2010 conference. Thus, we will continue to break the silos, cross-pollinate projects and ideas around specific cleantech topics and advance cleantech solutions to the biggest energy challenges of our times - climate change at the top of the list.
The kickoff meeting will take place on Tuesday, August 31st from 7pm to 9pm in downtown San Francisco –
The Landmark at One Market St. (5th Floor), San Francisco. The agenda for the meeting is as following:
7:00 – 7:30pm: Networking over pizza and beverages (provided by the organizers)
7:30 –8:00pm: Outgoing leadership team presentation –conference goals, format and key success factors
8:00 – 8:30pm: Organization guidelines – suggested team structure, planning schedule and proposed topics
8:30 – 8:45pm: Q&A and next steps
This event is a great opportunity to get involved in cleantech, network among leading professionals and students in this field and join like-minded folks in a project or a company.
If you want to be involved in the planning team for the 6th conference, please attend our kick-off meeting next Tuesday, August 31st at 7pm. Also, see our website here for more information.
For building security and pizza preferences, please RSVP before 5pm Monday, August 30th at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H83SJ7Z.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing you next week.
Elaine Kan, Chair of the 5th Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference
ekan@stanford.edu
Corrected note below:
Interested in deep diving into one area of cleantech? Want to meet C-level executives of exciting global cleantech companies? Have leadership abilities or want to work on them?
I am excited to announce the 6th Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference kick-off meeting. The Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference Series is a student-led organization founded in 2007 to bring together students and alumni at UC Berkeley and Stanford University as well as key members of the academic, policy and business communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Each conference discusses focused cleantech topics from the technology, entrepreneurial and policy standpoints, to find long-lasting solutions to climate change and other current energy challenges.
This May we held our 5th successful conference “Electric Car2.0: Who Will Win the Race – Innovation, Policy, China” in downtown San Francisco. The 300-seat event sold out and was attended by a mix of 30% students and 70% professionals. We featured speakers from respected VC firms, electric vehicle entrepreneurs, utilities, policy and research firms.
Our immediate goal is to recruit the next generation of students passionate about cleantech to take leadership of this conference series for the November 2010 conference. Thus, we will continue to break the silos, cross-pollinate projects and ideas around specific cleantech topics and advance cleantech solutions to the biggest energy challenges of our times - climate change at the top of the list.
The kickoff meeting will take place on Tuesday, August 31st from 7pm to 9pm in downtown San Francisco –
The Landmark at One Market St. (5th Floor), San Francisco. The agenda for the meeting is as following:
7:00 – 7:30pm: Networking over pizza and beverages (provided by the organizers)
7:30 –8:00pm: Outgoing leadership team presentation –conference goals, format and key success factors
8:00 – 8:30pm: Organization guidelines – suggested team structure, planning schedule and proposed topics
8:30 – 8:45pm: Q&A and next steps
This event is a great opportunity to get involved in cleantech, network among leading professionals and students in this field and join like-minded folks in a project or a company.
If you want to be involved in the planning team for the 6th conference, please attend our kick-off meeting next Tuesday, August 31st at 7pm. Also, see our website here for more information.
For building security and pizza preferences, please RSVP before 5pm Monday, August 30th at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H83SJ7Z.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing you next week.
Elaine Kan, Chair of the 5th Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference
ekan@stanford.edu
Leadership Planning: Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference, Aug. 31st in SF
Interested in deep diving into one area of cleantech? Want to meet C-level executives of exciting global cleantech companies? Have leadership abilities or want to work on them?
I am excited to announce the 6th Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference kick-off meeting. The Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference Series is a student-led organization founded in 2007 to bring together students and alumni at UC Berkeley and Stanford University as well as key members of the academic, policy and business communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Each conference discusses focused cleantech topics from the technology, entrepreneurial and policy standpoints, to find long-lasting solutions to climate change and other current energy challenges.
This May we held our 5th successful conference “Electric Car2.0: Who Will Win the Race – Innovation, Policy, China” in downtown San Francisco. The 300-seat event sold out and was attended by a mix of 30% students and 70% professionals. We featured speakers from respected VC firms, electric vehicle entrepreneurs, utilities, policy and research firms.
Our immediate goal is to recruit the next generation of students passionate about cleantech to take leadership of this conference series for the November 2010 conference. Thus, we will continue to break the silos, cross-pollinate projects and ideas around specific cleantech topics and advance cleantech solutions to the biggest energy challenges of our times - climate change at the top of the list.
The kickoff meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 31st from 7pm to 9pm in downtown San Francisco – The Landmark at One Market St. (5th Floor), San Francisco.
The agenda for the meeting is as following:
7:00 – 7:30pm: Networking over pizza and beverages (provided by the organizers)
7:30 –8:00pm: Outgoing leadership team presentation –conference goals, format and key success factors
8:00 – 8:30pm: Organization guidelines – suggested team structure, planning schedule and proposed topics
8:30 – 8:45pm: Q&A and next steps
This event is a great opportunity to get involved in cleantech, network among leading professionals and students in this field and join like-minded folks in a project or a company.
If you want to be involved in the planning team for the 6th conference, please attend our kick-off meeting next Wednesday, August 31st at 7pm. Also, see our website here for more information.
For building security and pizza preferences, please RSVP before 5pm Tuesday, August 30th at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H83SJ7Z.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing you next week.
Elaine Kan, Chair of the 5th Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference
I am excited to announce the 6th Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference kick-off meeting. The Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference Series is a student-led organization founded in 2007 to bring together students and alumni at UC Berkeley and Stanford University as well as key members of the academic, policy and business communities in the Bay Area and beyond. Each conference discusses focused cleantech topics from the technology, entrepreneurial and policy standpoints, to find long-lasting solutions to climate change and other current energy challenges.
This May we held our 5th successful conference “Electric Car2.0: Who Will Win the Race – Innovation, Policy, China” in downtown San Francisco. The 300-seat event sold out and was attended by a mix of 30% students and 70% professionals. We featured speakers from respected VC firms, electric vehicle entrepreneurs, utilities, policy and research firms.
Our immediate goal is to recruit the next generation of students passionate about cleantech to take leadership of this conference series for the November 2010 conference. Thus, we will continue to break the silos, cross-pollinate projects and ideas around specific cleantech topics and advance cleantech solutions to the biggest energy challenges of our times - climate change at the top of the list.
The kickoff meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 31st from 7pm to 9pm in downtown San Francisco – The Landmark at One Market St. (5th Floor), San Francisco.
The agenda for the meeting is as following:
7:00 – 7:30pm: Networking over pizza and beverages (provided by the organizers)
7:30 –8:00pm: Outgoing leadership team presentation –conference goals, format and key success factors
8:00 – 8:30pm: Organization guidelines – suggested team structure, planning schedule and proposed topics
8:30 – 8:45pm: Q&A and next steps
This event is a great opportunity to get involved in cleantech, network among leading professionals and students in this field and join like-minded folks in a project or a company.
If you want to be involved in the planning team for the 6th conference, please attend our kick-off meeting next Wednesday, August 31st at 7pm. Also, see our website here for more information.
For building security and pizza preferences, please RSVP before 5pm Tuesday, August 30th at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H83SJ7Z.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing you next week.
Elaine Kan, Chair of the 5th Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Mayor of Shanghai?
Hi all,
I was asked by my manager if I thought the mayor of Shanghai would make a good conference keynote speaker. Has anyone heard him speak or seen an videos of him they can share (didn't find any on YouTube).
Summer has been treating me well, I hope you are all enjoying yours, too!
Elaine
I was asked by my manager if I thought the mayor of Shanghai would make a good conference keynote speaker. Has anyone heard him speak or seen an videos of him they can share (didn't find any on YouTube).
Summer has been treating me well, I hope you are all enjoying yours, too!
Elaine
Monday, May 17, 2010
Indoor air kills 2.2 million young Chinese
Via Lynn Hildemann and Sandy Robertson.
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Indoor air kills 2.2 million young Chinese: report
BEIJING (AFP) – More than two million Chinese youths die each year from health problems related to indoor air pollution, with nearly half of them under five years of age, state media cited a government study as saying.
The study released by the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said indoor pollution levels can often be 5-10 times higher than those measured in the nation's notoriously bad outdoor air, the China News Service said.
This indoor pollution causes respiratory and other conditions that kill 2.2 million youths each year, one million of whom are under the age of five, the report said, citing the study released on Sunday.
AFP was not immediately able to obtain a copy of the study.
The study said dangerous indoor pollutants include formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia and radon.
It said formaldehyde posed the biggest threat. It is often found in building materials and new furniture in China and can be slowly released into indoor environments over the course of several years.
It said long-term exposure to such substances can cause a range of health problems including respiratory diseases, mental impairment and cancer, with young children, foetuses in utero and the elderly at most risk.
China's massive economic expansion of the past three decades has made it one of the world's most polluted countries as environmental and health concerns are trampled amid an overriding focus on industrial growth.
Countless cities are smothered in smog while hundreds of millions of citizens lack access to clean drinking water.
A 2007 World Bank report said 750,000 Chinese die prematurely each year due to air and water pollution -- a figure edited out of final versions of the report, reportedly after China warned it could cause social unrest.
URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100517/ts_afp/healthchinapollution
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Indoor air kills 2.2 million young Chinese: report
BEIJING (AFP) – More than two million Chinese youths die each year from health problems related to indoor air pollution, with nearly half of them under five years of age, state media cited a government study as saying.
The study released by the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said indoor pollution levels can often be 5-10 times higher than those measured in the nation's notoriously bad outdoor air, the China News Service said.
A baby wearing a mask is held at a hospital in Beijing. More than two million Chinese youths die each year
from health problems related to indoor air pollution, with nearly half of them under five years of age,
state media cited a government study as saying
This indoor pollution causes respiratory and other conditions that kill 2.2 million youths each year, one million of whom are under the age of five, the report said, citing the study released on Sunday.
AFP was not immediately able to obtain a copy of the study.
The study said dangerous indoor pollutants include formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia and radon.
It said formaldehyde posed the biggest threat. It is often found in building materials and new furniture in China and can be slowly released into indoor environments over the course of several years.
It said long-term exposure to such substances can cause a range of health problems including respiratory diseases, mental impairment and cancer, with young children, foetuses in utero and the elderly at most risk.
China's massive economic expansion of the past three decades has made it one of the world's most polluted countries as environmental and health concerns are trampled amid an overriding focus on industrial growth.
Countless cities are smothered in smog while hundreds of millions of citizens lack access to clean drinking water.
A 2007 World Bank report said 750,000 Chinese die prematurely each year due to air and water pollution -- a figure edited out of final versions of the report, reportedly after China warned it could cause social unrest.
URL: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100517/ts_afp/healthchinapollution
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Chinglish!
@Brenden: check out photo #8...
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