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If you are concerned about China’s co2 emissions you will be happy to learn that China is developing LFTR (liquid fluoride thorium reactor) technology with the help of the DOE. LFTR has been previously reported and discussed on WUWT .
http://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=lftr
“The U.S. Department of Energy is quietly collaborating with China on an alternative nuclear power design known as a molten salt reactor that could run on thorium fuel rather than on more hazardous uranium, SmartPlanet understands.”
“Proponents of thorium MSRs, also known as liquid thorium reactors or sometimes as liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs), say the devices beat conventional solid fuel uranium reactors in all aspects including safety, efficiency, waste and peaceful implications.”
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/us-partners-with-china-on-new-nuclear/17037
“China has officially announced it will launch a program to develop a thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactor, taking a crucial step towards shifting to nuclear power as a primary energy source.
The project was unveiled at the annual Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in Shanghai last week, and reported in the Wen Hui Bao newspaper (Google English translation here).
If the reactor works as planned, China may fulfill a long-delayed dream of clean nuclear energy. The United States could conceivably become dependent on China for next-generation nuclear technology. At the least, the United States could fall dramatically behind in developing green energy.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/china-thorium-power/
Anthony – first quarter 2012 CO2 emissions reported by the EIA shows the USA at 1990 emissions levels and on track to end 2012 to be 14% below 2006 emissions. Recall that Waxman-Markey 2020 target for cap and trade reduction was 17% which may be reached by the USA at the end of 2013 without cap and trade or a carbon tax. Does anyone see McKibben saying anything good about the USA success at lowering CO2 levels? Of course not because he is a transnational progressive that will never be happy with USA emissions reductions unless it involves the USA ceding sovereignty to the UN or to the NGOs that fund and/or support him. McKibben is an anti-industrial Luddite that wants everyone to go back to basket weaving and live in a tent like him. It seems to me that his missing the 1960s cultural revolution left him wanting to be politically and socially relevant and he suffers from a desire to relive the past in hopes of becoming relevant in this modern world. He will sit on his hands as China continues its growth of CO2 emissions to 20 Gt/year and only spend time condemning the people of the USA. He is no a climate hawk but a climate chicken-little hawk that doesn’t like the USA.