China manufacturers Inexpensive Wind Turbines for Mass Consumption

A recent news report mentioned that Chinese manufacturers were heeding the call to make low-cost wind turbines for worldwide distribution. With soaring energy demand in China alone, they have good reason to do so. Naturally, there are other burgeoning nations with high energy demands that stand to benefit from low cost energy products, as well. The list of these nations includes India and Brazil, so between the three of them there is sure to be enough business to last half a millennium.

Have American manufacturer's missed this opportunity? It looks like the maintaining the status quo with the declining automotive industrial base is far more important to corporate stockholders and their tax-payer subsidized government. American manufacturers continue to look to the past and dream of a return to the credit-fueled consumerism as the best way to amass huge sums of capital. In the meantime, world wide populations, wealth and opportunities have exploded elsewhere. In countries where individual transportation isn't that important due to differences in infrastructure and society, inexpensive technology if fueling increased energy demand in the form of electricity and telecommunications infrastructure.

The internet is tightening its web more everyday as high speed and wireless connectivity spreads throughout the dimmest sectors of the world. The Internet bypasses the need for personal transportation, i.e. the automobile, thereby creating a brave new world of world-wide intelligence that feeds on the constant flow of electrons and giga-bytes (soon to be terra-bytes).

Once again, the Chinese have it right, and Americans have taxes to pay and cars to buy.