Month: September 2024

China-built world’s most powerful off-shore wind turbine was “unfazed” by Super Typhoon Yagi

September 10, 2024 CEN_com 0

Super Typhoon Yagi battered the OceanX platform emerges unfazed. Designed by Chinese wind firm Minyang Smart Energy and constructed Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company and China State Shipbuilding Corp. The platform was launched in April 2024. The OceanX, which is made from ultra-high performance concrete, features a single-point mooring system for durability, cost-efficiency, and typhoon stability. Typhoon Yagi passed close to the Mingyang Ocean-X platform, deployed at the Qingzhou IV Offshore […]

China recovering from typhoon Yagi: strongest since 1949

September 10, 2024 CEN_com 0

Dozens killed in Vietnam, China, Philippines Yagi, the strongest autumn typhoon to land in China since 1949, hit Hainan on Friday, leaving at least four dead and 95 injured. China’s southernmost province of Hainan is recovering from the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yagi, with workers fixing damaged facilities and draining streets of floodwaters as airports in Sanya and Haikou reopened. Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, maintained Super Typhoon […]

China urges the US to maintain ‘stable policy’ on climate change

September 9, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi urged Washington not to let overbroad definitions of national security stand in the way of climate change cooperation as he met visiting US climate envoy John Podesta, who was in China for bi-lateral talks with his counterpart Liu Zhenmin, China’s special envoy for climate change. “Climate change dialogue and cooperation are not only an integral part of China-US relations, but also an important measure to implement […]

While Bombs Fall, China Powers Hope with Solar in Gaza

September 7, 2024 CEN_com 0

China’s low-cost solar panels are bringing light and hope to Palestinians living under the shadow of war in Gaza. In Gaza’s refugee camps, besieged by Israeli occupation forces, one of the most crucial survival tools may come as a surprise: solar panels. While food and water are essential to life, in Gaza, a city under siege, electricity means something more for local people. This is because fresh food and clean water require […]

Vicious circle of air pollution and climate-change induced wildfires has global impact

September 6, 2024 CEN_com 0

PM2.5 DECLINING IN CHINA SAYS WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION World in a vicious cycle of climate change, wildfires and air pollution – causing spiraling negative impact on human health, ecosystems and agriculture, says WMO. Fine particle air pollution declined in China last year as emissions linked to human activity dropped, the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said in its State of the Global Climate 2023 report published this week. Nanoparticles known as PM2.5 […]

China leads world in nuclear energy innovation

September 5, 2024 CEN_com 0

China is 10 to 15 years ahead of the US in ability to deploy fourth-generation nuclear reactors at scale, says major US think-tank. The US Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has published a report entitled “How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power?” which says that China has become the world’s leading proponent of nuclear energy. The 32-page report notes: “Chinese firms are well ahead of their Western peers, supported […]

Kenyan environmentalists work to revive degraded river by planting Chinese bamboo

September 4, 2024 CEN_com 0

A Kenyan evironmental group, Kirinyaga Bamboo Environmental Guardians, were convinced that planting trees along the riverbanks could help restore the environment. They sought to tackle the degradation of Kiringa River, a once-pristine waterway long revered by the local community. The riverbanks suffered from severe soil erosion, water levels dwindled and pollution worsened due to climate change and human activities, such as upstream irrigation. Although some members of the environmebntal group […]

China-built wind farms boost Ethiopia’s green energy

September 4, 2024 CEN_com 0

The Aysha wind power project, part of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), broke ground in May 2018, with the project costing $257 million USD. China’s Dongfang Electric International Corporation, a state-owned enterprise specializing in the production of power-generating equipment, was contracted by Ethiopia to build the wind farm. The project is 85 % is funded by Exim Bank of China with the Ethiopian government funding 15%. Ethiopia signed-up […]

South Africa’s China-built Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Project

September 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

The China-built Redstone Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) Project in South Africa, the first-of-its-kind in sub-Saharan Africa, is due to be connected to the grid in early September 2024. CSP plants produce electricity by concentrating solar thermal energy using mirrors to reflect the sun to a receiver that collects and stores the heat energy to power a steam turbine connected to an electricity generator. CSP is used in utility-scale applications to help […]

BRICS – Türkiye makes historic bid to join bloc

September 3, 2024 CEN_com 0

Türkiye has formally applied to join the BRICS group, a move that underscores its ambition to enhance global influence and forge new alliances beyond traditional Western partners. Türkiye joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative in 2015. The launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI ) by China and Türkiye’s Middle Corridor (MC) have provided wider scope and greater potential for China, now the world’s second-largest economy by nominal GDP, and Türkiye, a […]