A friend of mine, an accomplished reader, urged me to subscribe to this book because there is a chapter in it that proves that your editorial is 100% correct.
The book is a dialogue between Masahiro Miyazaki, the world's best China watcher, and Shi Ping.
This book is a must-read for the people of Japan and the people of the world.
Every citizen who can read the book should subscribe to it at the nearest bookstore.
I will tell the world, especially the West, as much as I can.
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Chapter 4: The "China the only winner's decarbonization" trap is scarier than Corona
Preamble omitted
China's Big Fraud Business: The Electric Vehicle (E.V.) Trap
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Hybrid cars are better than electric cars, which are vulnerable to snow
Miyazaki
China is building not only thermal power plants but also nuclear power plants and hydroelectric power plants.
They can't keep up with the power supply.
More importantly, an electric car needs a lot of electric stations.
And electric cars require a large number of lithium batteries.
What worries me is that the discarded lithium batteries will become a "drip of poison after use.
It's not like Minamata disease in China, but pollution-related diseases are coming up all the time.
Battery technology is still in its infancy.
We don't know what will happen in the future, and it won't last for a long time.
The other day, there was heavy snowfall in the Hokuriku region of Japan.
Many cars were stranded, and the Self-Defense Forces went to the rescue.
There was an electric car in the car, and it was hard because it stopped working.
Compared to gasoline-powered cars, it takes longer to resume driving when the battery is dead, and even the interior heating system wears out quickly.
I wonder why they don't mention the defects in such emergencies.
And with the big cold spell in Texas this past February, it found out that electric cars are in trouble in the U.S. too.
If it snows or something, the battery will be consumed twice or three times as much, and the electric car will soon stop working.
Electric cars cannot travel long distances by nature.
Shí Píng
Still, many people advocate the widespread use of electric vehicles, using climate change as a reason.
They want to switch from gasoline cars to electric cars, don't they?
Miyazaki.
Toyota's hybrid cars (cars with multiple power sources or prime movers. Toyota's hybrid vehicle, the Prius, uses two power sources: a gasoline-powered engine/internal combustion engine and an electrically powered motor/electric motor) It is the most advanced globally.
The European Union, which is not happy with it, plans to destroy it and turn it into an electric car.
But I don't think it's possible to get rid of gasoline cars.
If you still want to do it, please do it.
But it will only make the car companies destroy themselves.
Anyway, the economic benefits of zero CO2 emissions are expected to be 90 trillion yen per year in 2030 and 190 trillion yen per year in 2050.
However, as Mr. Taishi Sugiyama, a Canon Institute for Global Studies researcher points out, "It is a clear mistake to attribute economic benefits to the huge costs involved. Of course, a huge investment in global warming countermeasures will generate sales for the companies undertaking the projects. However, this will reduce the competitiveness of most companies that pay for the project through energy taxes and other forms of subsidies, putting pressure on household budgets and, in total, deeply damaging the national economy. As a result of the aggressive promotion of solar power generation, the public is now burdened with an annual levy of 2.4 trillion yen. The government once claimed that this was part of its growth strategy and would have economic benefits. If the government does this again, this time on the scale of 100 trillion yen per year, the Japanese economy will inevitably collapse." (Sound Argument, Sankei Shimbun, January 27, 2021)
Mr. Sugiyama also mentions the threat of China.
"For China, taking a position of zero CO2 emissions not only deflects international pressure but also has the effect of weakening the free world and deepening divisions. Global warming has become the main weapon in the 'super-limit war' to leverage public opinion to strategic advantage. In addition, China has one of the world's largest industries in solar power, wind power, and electric vehicles. When the free world invests heavily, China is enriched, and the supply chains of the free world become increasingly addicted to China. Moreover, the large number of Chinese products connected to the power grids of these countries will also provide an opportunity for cyber attacks."
Hideo Nishi, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, also said, "The Biden administration has said that it will return to the Paris Agreement with a 'decarbonized society. However, if the Biden administration steers toward a 'decarbonized society' and restricts industrial activities, the U.S. economy will deteriorate dramatically" (NIPPON2021.2, "The 'Trump Waiting List' to Shake the Biden Administration").
The above-mentioned Mr. Sugiyama made a very interesting point.
He said, "Chinese companies have penetrated deeply into the U.K., which is ahead in liberalizing its electricity market. They are in league with the Chinese Communist Party. If they can cause a major blackout on orders from Beijing, they can paralyze the political center of London, the financial center of the City, and hospitals all over the U.K. In the future, if Chinese companies penetrate Japan in the form of solar power projects, similar dangers will arise. We need to be vigilant." (The Sankei Shimbun, "Sound Argument", March 12, 2021)
As you can see, it seems that we can't just throw up our hands and say yes to global warming measures.
This article continues.
