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...Municipal authorities in China's big cities are rolling out a variety of measures?some of them seemingly desperate?to try to keep citizens out of the dark. In Beijing, a cheery public relations campaign encourages cool, casual dress, telling yuppies that suits are unnecessary when the temperatures soar. Hotels in Shanghai have been told they must set their thermostats no lower than 26?C, and streetlights have been fitted with energy-saving bulbs. The city of 16 million is even considering seeding clouds on the summer's hottest days to induce cooling rain showers...
...time. When he returned home that night, the power was off, rendering his new flat-screen TV and expensive air-conditioning unit inert. "My TV is just like a painting on the wall with no use," he says. "And I've started using a traditional fan to keep myself cool." One of Hangzhou's most-popular chat rooms now focuses on how to deal with such blackout woes?although these discussions, of course, are limited to people with power for their computers...
...make up for lost time, Beijing has promised an enormous boost in energy infrastructure that, it says, will alleviate the shortfalls by 2006. The nation expects to double its energy capacity by 2010, to 650,000 megawatts. But even that Herculean effort, combined with a much-publicized plan to cool down the economy and relieve pressure on the energy sector, might not be enough. "It's a little hard to believe that if China maintains growth rates of 6-8% that all of a sudden these shortages will disappear overnight in 2006," says Joseph Jacobelli, a Hong Kong-based regional...
...their interior lights on all night to burnish Shanghai's image as an international financial capital. According to one building manager from the Xujiahui district, this requirement has led to doubled electricity consumption, not only from the lights themselves but from the air-conditioning needed during the day to cool the overheated building. All in all, Shanghai's much-vaunted nocturnal skyline?100 times brighter than the Australian capital of Canberra's, crow local urban planners?consumes the same amount of electricity as the city receives from the Three Gorges Dam, now in its first stage of operation...
...last days, and outwardly at least he leaves as he arrived: cool, calm and collected. Meticulous in dress, he is articulate, strong willed, tireless in his work. Even his harshest critics give Paul Bremer all that. But next week, when he vacates his office at Baghdad's Republican Palace, from which he has essentially run Iraq, Bremer will depart with a diminished reputation. Blame for the failures of the occupation can be spread across the whole spectrum of the U.S. military and political leadership--from the Pentagon planners who ignored warnings of the chaos that would follow "liberation...