{"id":505,"date":"2008-03-10T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-power-china\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:51","slug":"solar-power-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-power-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some reporting that shows that greed can compromise even the most environmentally viable of clean energy production methods, that is, solar power. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/08\/AR2008030802595.html\">Washington Post<\/a> published a story over the weekend denouncing the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. for dumping toxic waste used in the manufacturing of solar panels right in the middle of a country village. The material used to manufacture solar panels, polysilicon, has as byproduct a highly toxic substance called silicon tetrachloride. &#8220;The land where you dump or bury it will be infertile. No grass or trees will grow in the place. . . . It is like dynamite &#8212; it is poisonous, it is polluting. Human beings can never touch it,&#8221; said Ren Bingyan, a professor at the School of Material Sciences at Hebei Industrial University.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Green and greed may be spelt alike, but they are very, very incompatible. The story also highlights the need to take China&#8217;s &#8216;green advance&#8217; claims with extreme caution.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some reporting that shows that greed can compromise even the most environmentally viable of clean energy production methods, that is, solar power. The Washington Post published a story over the weekend denouncing the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co. for dumping toxic waste used in the manufacturing of solar panels right in the middle of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9911,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}