TIC (This is China)

[Lao Jia Hou]

Interesting survey done by Ipsos on how materialistic countries are ...




From this article on Quartz (qz.com). Original Ipsos article can be found here.

I was quite surprised that Canada registered 20% (i.e., one in five), because I recall that it is definitely frowned upon to flaunt one's wealth in Canada (i.e., it is a major social faux pas). Then it was pointed out to me that Canada's multicultural society has about 20% Chinese. Ah, right, of course.

Amazing survey results. 71% ... incredible.

[Jonsims]

My little half breed consistently scores the lowest in exams. Most of the kids regularly get 100% in tests. They are not being kids but recording machines. When the teachers criticize me for having a dumb kid I laugh at them and tell them a monkey can be trained to do the same as the 100% kids.
Every night in China, at around 7.30 pm, if you listen carefully you can hear a low moaning. It is millions of children crying "I can't do any more" as their cruel mothers scream at them.

The kids all cheat rampantly, so how can Shanghai or anywhere else in China say they have done well in exams?

[Jonsims]

I'll be at Cheng Gong next week for a week.. It's just north of Taitung City.. Surf is pumping!!!

Suck it up guys ....
5 min ago at the other side of the straight, living the sunday morning ride as usual.

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[Jonsims]

Also.. If you've not got to the West coast before you're going to be stoked with some fantastic amazing scenery..

I'll be at Cheng Gong next week for a week.. It's just north of Taitung City.. Surf is pumping!!!

[998S]

Link via our long term friend TB Racing:

Liquid nitrogen may help to clean up Beijing smog, Chinese scientists say
Scientists say pumping the super-cold gas into the atmosphere had the best results in tests

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/artic...scientists-say

I don't even comment, nor add critical questions ....

[whitworthsocket]

Yes, This is China.[/QUOTE]

Slightly off topic.
I just flew Into BKK yesterday And saw an Orange Gallardo pull onto Rama IV Freeway while in a taxi to DMK airport. (this is only the second Lambo I have seen here in BKK)
The taxi driver had been using all four lanes of the freeway at forty kmph higher speed than the rest of the traffic and doing a pretty good job (nothing like a Bangkok taxi ride to get the heart started after an all night flight). Seeing the Lambo spurred even more frenzy from the taxi driver. However after a toll gate stop the Lambo vanished so rapidly it was unbelievable. The taxi driver slowed to the same forty Kmph above the rest of the traffic for the rest of the journey.
BTW if you say Carrefour in thailand no one has the first idea about what you are saying. Its pronounced "Karfu"

[Lao Jia Hou]

The China Academy of Science (a somewhat credible, peer-reviewed organization) analyzed the content of Beijing's air pollution and here is what it found ...



See that little blue 4% on the bottom? That is how much ALL vehicle emissions AND waste incineration contribute to air pollution! I've seen one of the local waste incineration plants and am going to issue a wild guess that it is a notable amount of that 4% - its chimneys were spewing out a lot of muck. And I think there are a few incineration plants around town.

Here is the breakdown, in English:

26% - secondary inorganic aerosols
25% - industrial pollution
18% - coal
15% - dust
12% - biomass burning
4% - vehicle emissions and waste incineration

Interestingly, there is no mention of "Chinese cooking" and/or "outdoor BBQs" ... two "culprits" that the "leaders" recently targeted as major causes of Beijing's air pollution. There was a recent crackdown on outdoor BBQs (you know, the guys selling chuan'r on the street corners), and the government proudly, and widely, issued press releases that they had shut those damn polluters down! I haven't read anything about shutting down industrial polluters, though. Yeah, makes sense - attack the weak, little guys trying to scrape out a living.

Amazing.

English link

Chinese link

[ZMC888]

Interesting, I always suspected the vehicle pollution was a very small part of the puzzle, I'm surprised coal is so low in the mix.
I was wondering about ' secondary inorganic aerosols' wikipedia says:
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[AndyCCAA]

"secondary inorganic aerosols" just means that these particles were created from gaseous substances, either by chemical reaction or by attachment of additional matter. In contrast, primary inorganic aerosols come directly from mechanical or thermical processes - for example dust from construction sites, pm from car engines or industrial furnaces ect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosol
So this does not state anything about the origin of these 26%. My wild guess would be to blame industry and agriculture. Can't read the primary source though, maybe they explain more about this in chinese.

Anyway, that's only the distribution of pm 2.5. while it's sure a huge portion of the pollution, it's hardly all of it.

[hclayjones]

those "secondary inorganic aerosols" are likely Hair Net Spray for all those Big Haired Gals from Wuhan