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Electricity and China; Chinese are more Energy Conscious then American: Only here in China have I started to think how about big of an energy hog...

Electricity and China; Chinese are more Energy Conscious then American:

Only here in China have I started to think how about big of an energy hog Americans are. We complain so much about the price of oil and electricity but we never really do anything to try to conserve energy. Here in China, it seems that everyone is trying to use the least amount of energy as possible.

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Over at The Asian Economist blogger Nhuong Son has written a nice article on the differences he’s seen in energy usage by students between his time at Drew University in New Jersey here in the US when compared with the rationed electricity used by students at China’s Nanjing University in the student housing.  The post is well worth reading and as an added treat, the post ends with some beautiful after dark photos of Shanghai and Nanjing.

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