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Glasses-gate and other earthquake scandalsPosted by Joel Martinsen on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). ![]() Ten observations about the post-earthquake mess: ESWN translates a post by My1510 blogger lzhwolf108 who comments on pointless posturing by government officials: As common people like us know, when you pay respect to the dead or visit the sick, you should dress plainly and solemnly. It is advisable not to wear sunglasses. But Party Secretary Lu appears to be an important local official taking a leisure stroll during this emergency. Not only did he stroll before the camera, he also made idiotic remarks to the disaster victims such as: "An earthquake is really not such a bad thing. We can build new houses that are definitely better than the old ones ..." I would like to ask Party Secretary Lu: "Houses can be rebuilt, but what about the dead people? If this occurred at your home, would you comfort your family members with those words?"
A few points:
The heart of his idea--easy to describe, tricky to implement--is capturing the enormous amount of heat normally wasted in cement making and using it to run turbines that generate electric power. This power can then be fed back into the factory, doing work that would otherwise require burning even more coal. The reduction of dust is a visible indicator of the more fundamental reduction of waste. Over the course of a long day, I heard about the many, many refinements Tang had made to this "co-generation" system since he first started working on it, in the mid-1980s. The punch line is that it now works well enough to cut the energy (mainly from coal) required to make clinker by 60 percent, and the overall power demands of the cement production line by 30 percent.
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Comments on Glasses-gate and other earthquake scandals
What kind of silly people would allow the this Party to rule them for such a long time?
Perhaps the same silly people who allowed the Cultural Revolution to ruin them for such a long time, but Chiang Kai-Shek would have let the Japanese win World War II so I suppose this Party seemed so much better than the alternative 60 years ago.