February 4, 2016
Guangzhou - Construction on a power transmission line (click here) to distribute power from southwest China's Yunnan province to the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong province began Wednesday, in a move to ease its power shortages and alleviate the worsening smog problems.
Guangzhou - Construction on a power transmission line (click here) to distribute power from southwest China's Yunnan province to the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong province began Wednesday, in a move to ease its power shortages and alleviate the worsening smog problems.
The ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHV DC) power transmission line, which is 1,959 kilometers long, links Jianchuan county in Yunnan with Bao'an district of Shenzhen city. It is the longest power transmission line China Southern Power Grid has constructed.
With a total investment of more than 22 billion yuan ($3 billion), the project is scheduled to send power in 2017. When it is completed, it can transfer 20 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year to Guangdong, an equivalent of 25 percent of power used by Shenzhen annually.
Zheng Shanjie, deputy head with the National Energy Administration, said the project can stabilize low-carbon economic growth in the Pearl River Delta region....
Get this. The Chinese are brave in seeking innovation in energy. That is impressive.
Get this. The Chinese are brave in seeking innovation in energy. That is impressive.
In the popular Harry Potter series, the most advanced dark magic, "petrification", is the process of turning people into stone.
In China, turning hydrogen, a gas, into a superconducting metal is a new kind of magical pursuit with tantalizing possibilities, and a recent breakthrough in physics at the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy in the United Kingdom is pointing the way. Scientists there confirmed for the first time that hydrogen under extreme pressure takes on early characteristics of a metal - a state they call Phase V.
The discovery, which was featured on the cover of the prestigious scientific journal Nature in January, could lead to superconductivity at normal temperatures and revolutionize the world's energy picture.
And now the technology is coming to China, along with one of the world's leading hydrogen researchers, Eugene Gregoryanz, a Canadian who co-authored the Nature article.
A physics professor at Edinburgh, Gregoryanz was invited to China under the government's Thousand Talents program, which recruits top foreign experts.
